Step brother and sister accused of being lovers 'shot dead their parents, fed them to their dogs'

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 2: An Argentine step-brother and sister have admitted to murdering their parents and feeding their dismembered bodies to the family dogs.

Leandro Acosta, 25, and Karen Klein, 22, who are also reportedly in a relationship, allegedly shot and killed their parents for abusing their younger siblings.

The gruesome crime was only discovered when police found part of the pelvic bone of their mother Miryam Kowalczuk in a bucket in their home in Pilar, on the outskirts of the capital of Buenos Aires.

The pair reportedly killed Kowalczuk, Acosta's mother, and Ricardo Klein, father of Karen, in retaliation for their abuse of their 11-year-old twin brother and sister.

Acosta has reportedly confessed to the crime, and admitted to eating part of his stepfather's corpse, as he fed the bodyparts to the family's six dogs.

According to Klein, the pair carried out the brutal murders while their 11-year-old siblings were at at school.

She claims Acosta shot her father whilst he was asleep and then shot his mother in the head as she walked in the door.

They then reportedly cut up and burned the body parts that were not given to their pets.

Acosta's defence lawyer Monica Chirivin said:'He does not feel remorse and in fact describes a state of relief for a burden he has felt from childhood.

'He told me that he ate a bit of the corpse. For him it was almost a pleasure.'

Acosta has a chronic intestinal condition and had to use a colostomy bag all his life.

He claims this is one of the reasons he was mistreated during his childhood by his mother and stepfather.

The victim's brother Roberto Klein admitted: 'My brother was a difficult man, with little time for his children, there has always been resentment between him and his stepson and I believe this was a long time coming.'

The crime was discovered when a relative of the victim notified the police after he grew suspicious when he was not allowed entry into the family home.

The police found pieces of a female pelvis and vertebra column in an old paint bucket on the terrace.

Several rubbish bags which the couple took to a nearby waste ground are also being analysed by the crime squad.

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