Josef Fritzl is one sick puppy.
AMSTETTEN, Austria (AFP) — Austrian police said Wednesday the man who held his daughter prisoner for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had no accomplices and planned his crime too meticulously to have been caught any earlier.
I’ve become aware of this story a couple of days ago, but finally we’re getting some details.
Fritzl, who police say had started sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth when she was just 11, locked her in an underground cellar when she turned 18, telling the authorities and his family she had run away to join a religious sect.
Yeah, that’s the part which explains why Fuchsl1 will be going to hell at full speed when he croaks.
Conditions nevertheless became so cramped as each successive child was born that he moved three of them to the family home upstairs, claiming that Elisabeth had deposited them on his doorstep because she was not able to look after them.
Fritzl forced Elisabeth to write letters asking the authorities to make him their legal guardian.
One child, a twin, died shortly after birth. The other three remained incarcerated with their mother in the dungeon.
So who would not believe that? Why would anyone doubt it?
When should the neighbors have thought “Hey, let’s turn over his basement, I’m sure his daughter is trapped in there!” Next step is to form a posse, light torches and march upto Dr.Frankenstein’s laboratory and demand her release…
No one was aware of the existence of the underground prison, not even fire inspectors who routinely checked a heating boiler in the cellar in 1999.
“You have to go through five different rooms to get to the room where the door to the dungeon was,” investigator Polzer said. “And in order to get to that door, you had to first partially dismantle some bookshelves.”
But nobody could have expected that.
Although, to be fair, I wouldn’t say anything now if I knew and stayed quiet all this time…
This guy was crafty and put a lot of thought into it.
The door itself, about one metre high (three feet) and 60 centimetres (1.9 feet) wide, was reinforced with concrete and had an electronic lock that could only be opened with a remote control.
The bunker itself was equipped with a refrigerator, a freezer and a washing machine which would have enabled Elisabeth and her children to live “for several weeks” without need for new supplies from Fritzl.
And the reunited family?
“They’re doing well under the circumstances,” he added.
Elisabeth and two of her children, aged five and 18, who spent their entire lives in the windowless cellar with her, “still need to get used to daylight and overcome difficulties orientating themselves in space,” Kepplinger said.
The younger boy was very “sweet, excited and clinging to his mother,” he added.
Elisabeth also got along “particularly well with her daughters,” aged 14 and 15, whom she had not seen since her father took them from her as babies.
Another boy, aged 12, who was also taken out of the cellar as a infant, celebrated his birthday with cake at the clinic with his reunited family.
So another monster has been uncovered. Let the sun shine in…
1= Adolph Hitler’s dog during WWI.
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