Frankfurt prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that the body was found last Saturday and the five had been remanded in custody on murder changes.
It is not clear whether the woman requested the exorcism.
Leading state attorney Nadja Niesen said she had "not ever experienced everything like it", adding that investigators had described the suspects' behavior as "unfeeling and pitiless". Five people, including her 15-year-old son have been arrested for trying to rid the 41-year-old victim of "demons".
According to the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, a judge issued arrest warrants for a 44-year-old woman, her son, 21, daughter, 19 and an unrelated 15-year-old boy.
The suspects had used "severe violence" against the woman, beating her chest and stomach while gagging her with a towel and then a cloth-covered coat hanger.
A woman who was undergoing an exorcism was found dead in a German hotel room, prosecutors have alleged.
The national news agency DPA reported that the family were of unknown religious affiliation and had arrived in the city around six weeks earlier.
The cause of death was "suffocation due to massive chest compression and trauma to the neck".
The investigation led police to discover a second suspected victim, a badly injured female relative suffering hypothermia and dehydration, in the garage of a house the group had rented in the town of Sulzbach.
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