Singer ‘killed husband, used body double to claim his estate’

POLICE in Germany have arrested an opera singer who they say murdered her wealthy husband then used a double to get her hands on his €5 million estate.

Police alleged Waltraud Hill, 55, used a make-up artist to get the man to pass for her husband. With him she went to a lawyer where the bogus Hermann Hills signed over the properties, stocks, bonds, cash and life insurance policies of thereal one to her.

Detectives say the case is “straight out of a Hitchcock film”. They believe that the 71-year-old man’s wife Waltraud, 55, killed him, hid his body and then roped in an accomplice to play him in the plot to get his riches.