Missing since May 14, former Netherlands international volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her boyfriend, Lodewijk Severin, were found dead on Monday in an orchard in this southern Spanish city Murcia.

Three people have been arrested in Valencia for the murder of a Dutch couple in Murcia. The Dutch couple were formed by volleyball champion Ingrid Visser and her boyfriend Lodewijk Severin, behind whom there was an important economic debt.

The bodies were found on Sunday afternoon, they had been chopped up and put in plastic bags.

Their bodies were found in a shallow grave in a lemon grove, two weeks after they disappeared in the region.

An ex-director of a Spanish volleyball club is among three people arrested.

Murcia’s police chief told reporters there appeared to have been a business disagreement between the couple and the suspects.

Ms Visser, 35, disappeared along with her partner Lodewijk Severein, 57, on 13 May, shortly after after checking into a hotel in the city of Murcia.

They were supposed to meet a doctor the next day, but failed to turn up, and the authorities were alerted. Their rental car was found on a city street more than a week later.

Volunteers plastered the walls of the city with posters appealing for information about the missing couple.

They were found thanks to the confession of a 36 year old Valencian, Juan C.L. who has a previous record for fraud, and with whom Ingrid’s boyfriend has invested in a marble quarry,

The other two arrested were two Romanians, allegedly contracted by the Dutch.

The three were taken last night to Murcia in a police vehicle.

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