Josef Fritzl
April 30th 2008 10:09
It’s not that long since we had a story from Europe about a bloke who kidnapped a young girl and imprisoned her in a room until she was a teenager.
Now, as though to outdo that story in every respect, we have one about a 73-year-old Austrian man who’s managed to keep his daughter in the cellar for twenty-something years. Not only did he keep her there, he had seven children by her! And at some point he and his wife ‘adopted’ three of them!! And neither of the daughter’s two late teenage children seem to have had the gumption to overpower the old man and deal to him, in order to escape.
The more you read the details, the more you have to ask: is Candid Camera hiding around here somewhere? Didn’t anyone ever think there was something suspicious going on at the house? How come the wife of fifty years turned a blind eye to all this – or are we expected to believe she didn’t know? How did a woman have seven children all without any hospital assistance? She must have been some tough cookie.
“Investigators said Josef Fritzl had not shown remorse. He was under psychiatric care but had not been deemed to be suicidal. His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, disagreed, saying he was "emotionally broken".”
Why should he be suicidal? If he supposedly hasn’t given a damn for these eight lives over last twenty years, why would he worry about anything now? ‘Emotionally broken?’ Good grief.
On top of all the questions I asked earlier, the authorities have some questions of their own: what happened to all the rubbish the basement dwellers produced? Who fed them all, since Fritzl was often away for weeks over the summer holidays with his male friends – in Thailand. (Where no doubt he was treating the native girls with the same sort of generosity he showed to his daughter.)
How did he install the 300kg steel remote-controlled door (was it a Schlage?) in the basement without help?
It seems to me either the whole thing is a con, or else he had a group of buddies who were just as corrupt as he was, and they sorted the whole thing out between them.
It’ll be interesting to hear the truth.
Now, as though to outdo that story in every respect, we have one about a 73-year-old Austrian man who’s managed to keep his daughter in the cellar for twenty-something years. Not only did he keep her there, he had seven children by her! And at some point he and his wife ‘adopted’ three of them!! And neither of the daughter’s two late teenage children seem to have had the gumption to overpower the old man and deal to him, in order to escape.
The more you read the details, the more you have to ask: is Candid Camera hiding around here somewhere? Didn’t anyone ever think there was something suspicious going on at the house? How come the wife of fifty years turned a blind eye to all this – or are we expected to believe she didn’t know? How did a woman have seven children all without any hospital assistance? She must have been some tough cookie.
“Investigators said Josef Fritzl had not shown remorse. He was under psychiatric care but had not been deemed to be suicidal. His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, disagreed, saying he was "emotionally broken".”
Why should he be suicidal? If he supposedly hasn’t given a damn for these eight lives over last twenty years, why would he worry about anything now? ‘Emotionally broken?’ Good grief.
On top of all the questions I asked earlier, the authorities have some questions of their own: what happened to all the rubbish the basement dwellers produced? Who fed them all, since Fritzl was often away for weeks over the summer holidays with his male friends – in Thailand. (Where no doubt he was treating the native girls with the same sort of generosity he showed to his daughter.)
How did he install the 300kg steel remote-controlled door (was it a Schlage?) in the basement without help?
It seems to me either the whole thing is a con, or else he had a group of buddies who were just as corrupt as he was, and they sorted the whole thing out between them.
It’ll be interesting to hear the truth.
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