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This is a very dark, anti-human case, and before reading it, please be sure that you have sufficient psychological capacity.
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Before Brie Larson became a surprise captain, one of her most famous works was called Room. This film released in 2015 tells the story of a girl who had a son in the basement and lived with her children in the basement for seven years.
In this story, the mother and the son are in a little space, and the only natural light comes from a little skylight.
At the end of the film, the girl struggled and tried to get the child out. In the end, both were finally rescued, but getting out of their room and living in a strange world remains a great challenge for them.
The film was adapted from a novel with the same name. The novel originated in a very well-known real case in Austria, although the case itself was more horrific than the content of the novel.
This case occurred in an Austrian city called Amsterdam. It’s not a big city, it’s 52 square kilometres and it’s less than 25,000 people. Among them was a regular family named Fritzl, father Josef Fritzl, mother Rosemarie, who had seven children together.
Figure 1: Josef Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie: Josef Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie lived an ordinary day before 1984, when their father was a senior engineer, with dignity and humility, and was responsible for supporting their families. My mother was a loving, busy housewife and she was all over the kids.
Despite the number of children in the family, the family had a happy life, each of them being very polite and very polite, and neighbours said that the Fritzl children had a family.
But maybe there’s always a black sheep in a flock. Elizabeth is the black sheep of the Fritzl family.
Figure 2: Elizabeth Fritzl chart 2: Elisabeth Fritzl Elisabeth, who has been stubbornly rebelled from a young age, dropped out of school after he completed compulsory education at the age of 15. She intended to receive vocational training as a waitress, to start working directly to earn money and to become independent early.
However, before completing her vocational training course, she suddenly ran away from home. The parents were in a hurry to find someone and finally had to call the police, which found her at a friend ‘ s house in Vienna three weeks later.
When she was taken home, she was put on a mind job and returned to vocational training, and this time she was able to finish her training in mid-1984 and soon found a job in another city, Linz.
The city of Linz is the third largest city in Austria, with a highly industrial population of more than 200,000. Elisabeth was so excited about finally having the chance to leave his hometown, so eager. However, shortly after the start of work, one day she did not say anything, as she had last runaway, and suddenly disappeared.
This day was August 29, 1984.
Elisabeth ‘ s mother immediately reported to the police after she found her daughter again leaving. Although she had reached the age of 18 at that time and was considered an adult, the police had requested the corresponding investigation.
In most people’s minds, it usually takes 24 hours to call the police when someone’s gone. In fact, however, the police can be reported at any time, except that for the adults who have disappeared, many of the time they end up just trying to be quiet. As a result, the police generally do not take immediate search operations unless there are substantial indications of a crime.
Despite the fact that the police had opened an investigation into the missing Elisabeth, there had been little progress, anxious parents had been asking questions and had not received any new information, and neighbours had watched their emotions slowly turn from despair to despair.
Until a few weeks later, the Fritzl family suddenly received a letter.
The letter was sent by Elisabeth on 21 September 1984, and it is assumed that she wrote it after a few days without saying anything else.
Postmarks show to be from the city of Braunau, where Hitler was born. In her letter, Elizabeth Scribbeth wrote that she was tired of her home life and wanted to go out and see the new world. Now she lives at a friend’s house, and she’s safe, so mom and dad don’t worry.
And she made it clear that she wanted them not to come looking for her.
“If you come to me, I will hide and you will never hear from me again. I’m sorry.
The police also heard the news a few days later, came to the door and father Josef came out with the handwritten letter.
He desperately told the police that it seemed that Elisabeth was brainwashed by cults. Before she left her home, a religion was frequently mentioned, which was small in size and very secretive, so it was not usually heard much. However, Elisabeth appears to be interested, expressing from time to time the desire to join the religion. It appears from this letter that it is likely that she joined the religion and refused to return home and even broke up with her family.
Since the missing person ‘ s father had said so, and the police had accepted it, the investigation into the disappearance had been closed, and it had been felt in everyone ‘ s heart that Elisabeth was probably living with a group of people she shared, so there was no need to pursue it.
For the next 20 years or so, Elisabeth wasn’t completely cut off from home.
Ten years after she left home, in the late night of May 1994, Josef and Rosemarie suddenly showed up at the door of their home. Open the box and there’s a sleeping baby girl in it with a note.
The note says:
“It was a surprise to receive my letter, and it was such a surprise. The baby’s name is Lisa, her birthday was August 1993, and it’s now nine months old. She was breastfed six and a half months ago and has now learned to drink milk from a bottle. She’s a good girl. If you feed her with a spoon, she’ll eat well. I’m sorry.
Although there was no money left at the end of the letter, Josef and Rosemarie immediately realized that the baby had been sent by Elisabeth, but looked around without seeing her, wondering whether she had left or was hiding somewhere far away.
So the old couple had to take the baby into the house.
It is not difficult for old couples who have raised seven children to have an additional baby, not to mention the missing daughter’s returned flesh and blood, who made a formal application to the social welfare agency and adopted Lisa a few days later.
I didn’t think there was another little baby girl in Lisa’s cart in Josef’s porch after more than a year. A few minutes after the baby girl was found, the home phone rang, and mother Rosemarie ran to pick up the phone. There’s a voice on the other side of the phone.
She did not respond to her mother’s narration, but simply said, “I left her at the door,” and hung up.
Rosemarie surprised. We just got a new phone number at home.
The little girl found this time was named Monika, who had the last experience, and who, despite his head shaking, had been brought home in an orderly manner, and who, once again, had successfully adopted his granddaughter.
2 years later, in May 1996, for the third time at the door, there was a boy named Alexander. The latter adopted a third grandson who had been abandoned by her daughter without complaint.
The local media also took note of the situation and reported on the good deeds of Josef and his companions. Neighbors sometimes wonder what kind of mother would do so irresponsiblely, having seven children and now throwing them three babies.
The last person who appeared was not a baby, but a girl.
On 19 April 2008, exactly 24 years after the disappearance of Elisabeth, a girl suddenly appeared unconscious at the door.
Rosemarie was on vacation, only Josef was home alone. When the girl was found, the situation was very bad, and he immediately called an ambulance and took her to a nearby hospital for rescue.
By the time she arrived at the hospital, the girl had fallen into a deep coma. The doctor in the emergency room observed her face pale above normal, with residual blood on her lips.
An hour after the girl was admitted, Josef arrived at the hospital. The attending doctor quickly asked him about the medical history prior to the child, but the elderly seemed to be in a difficult situation and replied after a while that the mother of the child refused to take care of the child and left the child in front of his house.
Doctors can’t believe this. The child is so sick. How can a mother not care?
Josef took out a note written again by Elisabeth, which says that the child’s name is Kerstin, 19 years old. It didn’t work recently to say that she had a special headache and took aspirin. This was followed by convulsions, which could have bit the tongue and started bleeding in the mouth. She felt powerless and had to leave the child to her old father.
After the explanation, Josef gave the child to the doctor and left in a hurry. After all, there are a lot of people in the family who need to be cared for.
But the situation here in Kerstin is not encouraging, and she is sober from time to time, confused to take a look around and then falls into a coma. The doctor found that her immune system was virtually non-responsive, that there were clear symptoms of malnutrition, and that the state of her teeth was particularly poor, with almost all her teeth falling out at an early age.
The doctor felt that the situation was more critical than expected, and contacted Josef, who wanted him to do his work as the mother of the child and to bring the mother to the hospital. He had to know the child ‘ s medical history in order to plan his treatment. Josef hung up on his own after a while on the phone.
The hospital contacted the police in an urgent manner and reported that a man named Josef Fritzl had sent a mysterious patient in bad condition, but that his medical history was completely unknown and that it was difficult to heal. The child’s mother was completely irresponsible and hoped that the police would help find someone and save the child.
The police then issued a public call for the appearance of Elisabeth on the basis of known information. At the same time, the case of the disappeared person in the year of Elisabeth was reopened, with the intention of continuing to search for her whereabouts.
In order to gather clues, the police came to Josef’s house to find out, and Josef seemed helpless, and he really knew nothing. Just as before, and suddenly in the middle of the night, he found a piece of paper leaning against the wall.
He pulled a note out of his pocket, which says:
“Please help Kerstin, she’s afraid of life and has never been to a hospital. Kerstin, please be strong until the day we meet again. I’m sorry.
The date on the note was three months ago, signed by Elisabeth. Has Kerstin’s illness been delayed for three months?
The address on the note was another city called Kematen, and Josef explained to the police that her daughter had gone into a cult and had been brainwashed by a cult, so she was acting strangely, and Kerstin was already her fourth child left at her door.
In fact, the police’s statements about Josef do not fully believe that it does not seem normal for a mother to leave all four of her children behind and to refuse to appear.
Upon return, the police contacted a religious director in Kematen, asking about the local cult. Who said we did?
After a week, the situation in Kerstin had not improved, but had worsened, and the doctor had to put her on a respirator, at which point she had had a kidney failure, and the doctor had to maintain her life by hand, and after anaesthesia she entered the vegetative state.
The police decided to collect DNA from four children, hoping to compare it to find the father. If Mom doesn’t show up, Dad has to come out and tell me. Considering the cult, it seems to all of us that these four children were probably not born by a father.
But before the DNA results came out, there was something new going on in the way.
On April 26, five days after Kerstin was found, Josef was seen walking with a woman on the way to the hospital. The woman’s hair was white, her face was pale, her behavior was slow and her position was strange, and Josef had to stop and wait for her from time to time.
When they arrived at the hospital, they informed the nurse who was on duty at the door that this was Kerstin’s biological mother, Elisabeth. Isn’t the doctor looking for her? Now she’s coming.
The doctor in charge of the treatment of Kerstin received a telephone call from the nurse and learned that the patient ‘ s mother had finally appeared and immediately informed the police. When Josef and Elisabeth entered the ward, the police arrived at the same time. As patients are in such a bad situation, they need to ask the parents of their children to investigate whether there has been any neglect of their responsibilities.
At first, Elisabeth just hid behind Josef and wouldn’t say anything. Josef explained to the police on her behalf that she had seen the police ‘ s calls on television, that she had been worried about the children and had escaped from a cult-controlled place, which was difficult to find.
The detectives thought it wasn’t that simple. After a while of observation, they decided to separate them. Hopefully, in the absence of Josef, Elisabeth can relax and be more open.
But even when he left Josef’s side, Elisabeth seemed reluctant to cooperate. After a long silence, she said, “No one will believe me anyway.”
The police decided to try another angle: “We’ll believe you, and maybe you have your reasons. I’m sorry.
And suddenly, Elizabeth’s face changed, and he shook his head again: “Even if I speak the truth, no one will believe it.” I’m sorry.
The police promised again, don’t worry, we’ll protect you.
After much discussion, Elisabeth made a surprising demand: She and her children will never see Josef again. After the police agreed, she finally told the appalling truth.
In the past 24 years, she had been kept in the basement of her home by her biological father, violated 3000 times by Josef and gave birth to seven children.
05 she will always remember the day she left home 24 years ago – August 29, 1984. Josef, who had been playing something in the basement of his home, suddenly came to her room at noon and called her and said she needed a hand.
In the past some time, Josef had been busy working on the renovation of his basement, and in the late 1970s he had applied to the municipality for authorization to build a safe house at home against nuclear weapons. In the cold war, when everyone feared a world war, the general public was prepared to find a safe place to hide, so the Government quickly approved the application and additional financial support.
Josef spent five years building this basement and asked for a steel door weighing 300 kilograms in the basement.
Now the last step in this basement is not complete: to install the last door on the door frame, but he cannot do it himself and needs help.
Elisabeth followed Dad to the door in the basement, helped Josef hold the door and packed the last door. But it was not expected that at this point, Josef went around the back of Elisabeth and covered her daughter’s nose and nose with a towel dipped in an anesthesia.
Elisabeth was not completely unconscious at the time, but simply lost control of her limbs. And Josef dragged her daughter, all soft and defenceless, into the dim basement, where she was invaded like a beast on the cold and bald ground.
After the leak, Josef did not explain anything, nor did he return his clothes to Elisabeth, but instead found an iron chain around her waist, and locked her in a pipe under the ground. She then turned and locked the door and left her naked in this dark and cold basement with the mouse.
It’s not actually the first time he’s had violence against her, actually since she was 11 years old.
At the age of 12, Elisabeth began building this basement.
From age 11 to age 18, Elisabeth had only one chance to escape from his hands, when she seized the opportunity. Unfortunately, she was taken back and returned to the devil. Her struggle for survival was only a more convenient excuse for him: “Look, she left home again. I’m sorry.
Gradually no one cares about this missing girl, but this horrible man.
In the first few days, Josef left her alone in the basement, tied to a pipe like that. She cried out in the darkness, but no one heard. Although she lived on top of her head, the basement had been subjected to special soundproofing, and no matter how she shouted, her cry could not be passed into people ‘ s ears.
Chart 3: While she was desperate for help, her mother submitted a report on her disappearance and her parents and brothers and sisters were asking if anyone had seen her.
For the next two years, she spent alone in this small space, the whole world was a 17-metre-square concrete room, with the ceiling at a height of 1 metre, no windows, no natural light, no natural flow of air, the lights were switched to the outside, and there was a big horse-powered electric door, controlled only by Josef. If one day he was upset, he turned off the light and lost her time in the dark.
The whole room, just one bed. This bed is where she sleeps and where she was abused.
Josef comes almost every day, or at least three times a week. He will bring her some food, water and other simplest necessities of life. If she had finished her food before he came, she would have been hungry for the next few days.
She hears the sound of the door from far away, from near to the side of the door. If he just handed over the food with a plate, that means he won’t have time to touch her today. And if the door opened, he came in with food, and she knew he would stay and invade her.
Close your eyes, it’s his violence. Open your eyes, it’s a stain on the ceiling. Days are just like that.
When he was not there, she called in the dark, knocked on the pipes, hoping that someone would hear them, but the end result was that she cried out and no one came to her.
For a while now, she’ll fight hard, but he’s got a way to get rid of her.
He would beat her to death, beat her to death, beat her to death, beat her to the point where he could not resist, then attacked her, and then chained her up and grew.
Or starve her for a few days, starve her to death, become powerless, invade her again, tie her chains and grow.
At the earliest, she had to be tied to her bedroom with shackles on her feet and only when she needed to go to the toilet would he untie her. When he was gone, she had to wait for him.
Gradually she gave up her resistance and everything became simple and natural.
A few years later, he added an old refrigerator to her room so that she could store a little food and not starve to death when he was unable to come. Gradually, he brought a table and chairs so that she could not normally sit on the floor.
One day he brought her a little electromagnetic furnace so she could finally eat hot meals.
A few years later, he expanded a poor toilet outside his bedroom and installed a flush toilet. For many years, tiles were placed on the bathroom, with a wash and a toplight.
Figure 4: A simple toilet in the basement 4: She has to squeeze through a very narrow tunnel to reach the bathroom. The tunnel is covered with a thick soundproof layer of softwood, with a width of less than 60 centimetres, with an adult female shoulder wide of about 35 centimetres, and with both arms, with a hard side to walk through the corridor, but at least a separate room can be washed.
Fig. 5: When local living conditions in the basement are reduced to the worst, a small improvement will be seen as an improvement.
Elisabeth’s expectations for life and the future have not been lower, but the bigger nightmare awaits her.
She found herself pregnant in ’86.
In the initial panic and panic, the child grew up 10 weeks ago and aborted. It is now difficult to trace the true causes of abortion, but it is still conceivable that she was suffering and suffering.
Two years later, she was pregnant again, but Josef refused to take her to the hospital: “Don’t think, you think I don’t know what you’re trying to do? I’m sorry.
He threw her a medical book so she could learn to raise a baby. At the time of the birth, he went to the house upstairs, where she was alone in a closed room and had a very difficult birth of her eldest daughter.
She named the kid Kerstin, which was her first child with Josef. He was also the child who had to leave the dungeon and was taken to the hospital for rescue because of his illness. If it wasn’t for her, perhaps Elisabeth would still be waiting for a chance to be rescued.
Next year’s eldest son Stefan was born.
Lisa at Josef’s door was actually their third child, taken away from Elisabeth when she was nine months old, pretending to be a child abandoned by her mother.
And Monika at the door was actually Josef and Elisabeth’s fourth child. At that time, the boss was five years old, and his dick was four years old, and only one room in the basement could accommodate so many people. So Lisa and Monika were taken back and forth to “up” and adopted by “grandparents”.
Figure 6: Figure 6: Do you remember the phone call from your daughter when Monika was “discovered”? That was actually the recording that Josef had forced her to record in advance, and then he called and played in another room on a temporarily purchased mobile phone.
In May 1996, Elisabeth had twins, Alexander and Michael. My brother, Michael, had trouble breathing his hair when he was born, but Josef refused to take him to the hospital. He was still in the labor bed, asking for his help, Michael, and he replied with a cold answer, “Do as God will.” I’m sorry.
Two days later, Michael, who was in respiratory failure, died by his mother’s side, and then Josef threw his body into the boiler in the building and burned it.
Another baby of the twins Alexander was taken by Josef to the upstairs home. This time, his wife and social welfare workers did not raise any questions, but simply gave the “grandparents” the chance to adopt their daughter ‘no’ again.
08 Elisabeth and Kerstin, aged 7, Stefan, aged 6, continue to be imprisoned in the basement. All these years, Josef gave them a TV and brought them a radio and a video recorder.
Generally speaking, at around 9 a.m., he would find an excuse for his wife to go to the studio to draw drawings and go into the basement. After Monika was born, he realized that the lack of space in the basement was a major problem and finally agreed to the underground prison built before the expansion.
This house used to have an old basement, but it’s not connected to the bedroom where Elizabeth was confined. Under the bitter plea of Elisabeth, Josef agreed to expand their living space. He decided to add an additional bedroom outside the present bedroom and then connect their room to the old basement.
Elizabeth and the kids have a second bedroom and a little place to eat. They’re connected through a narrow, 5-metre-long walkway.
This second bedroom and the walkway, it’s Elisabeth and the kids dug it up with their hands. For fear of being used as a weapon against him, Josef refused to provide them with the tools, and he simply said, if you want, do it yourself.
After nine years of excavation, their living space finally expanded from 17 square metres to 55 square metres. But the newly excavated room is at different heights, and there are places below 1 metre 7.
Figure 7: The “extended” basement chart 7: The “extended” basement space has had a significant impact on the health of the children living in it, and Stefan, the eldest son, was 18 years old at the time of his rescue, reached a height of 1 metre 83, but because the ceiling was too low, he was unable to walk completely and in the last few years to move in a narrow space, causing serious damage to his spinal development.
In this dark, narrow and wet underground prison, the children lack natural light and even adequate oxygen. They only live every day on the faith of their mother, who told them, “There is heaven above.” I’m sorry.
In this small space, Elisabeth teaches children to read, tell them stories, bring them to paint, think of games to stimulate their brain development, and take a long time. Despite the hardship and despair of her life, she did everything in her power to provide children with sufficient security to forget the darkness and suffering around them.
When Josef brought food, it was often when he violated Elisabeth. If Elisabeth’s performance was unsatisfactory to him, he forced the children to watch, thereby humiliating her. If he’s in a good mood, the kids will be allowed to hide in the closet. More often, the children were chained to a pipe in the same room on the corner of the wall and could not go anywhere.
If the kids are a little naughty, don’t listen to Josef, or make a big noise, he’ll turn off the heat, or he won’t feed them for days to punish them.
Josef ‘ s occupation was mainly that of an engineer, but he purchased a number of properties at the same time. When he goes out to buy a house, or when he goes out on vacation, it can take up to a dozen days, and Elisabeth and the kids can get out of his hands for a while, but at the same time they can get hungry. She had to calculate daily food consumption carefully and, while pacifying the children, managed to maintain it with limited food until Josef returned.
The fear of his arrival, the fear that he will never return, is a great torture to everyone.
Why don’t they run away?
Because Josef told them the door was electrified. If they try to break the door, they’ll be electrocuted. Moreover, there was a gas trap in the passageway of the room, and if the trap was triggered when they escaped, the entire basement would be filled with gas, which would have caused them to die as a result of gas poisoning.
He added that if they behaved badly, irritated him or upset him, he had set up a remote control and could poison them at any time.
They knew that several doors to the outside world were electric doors that could be remotely operated, so they were convinced of Josef’s story.
So, Elisabeth “disappeared” 24 years in the dark-day basement, the eldest daughter Kerstin was 19 years old and the eldest son Stefan was 18 years old, and even the youngest son Felix was 5 years old. Four mouths downstairs gradually left Josef, 73 years old, feeling a little overburdened. In addition to this, he has to deal with the living garbage generated by so many people.
The more immediate reason is that, at this time, Elisabeth is 42 years old, but her hair has become almost completely gray, and her face is even more pale, like a 60-year-old old woman, whose numbness, frightfulness and retardation have become completely unattractive to him. So how to deal with her and the kids in the basement became a problem for him.
Figure 8: The computer simulated the Elisabeth Recent Photo 8: The computer simulated the Elisabeth Recent Photo is, more importantly, Josef’s true love for Felix, the youngest child, and he even calculated to leave his business and property to his younger son in the future. But he also realized that if Felix had been growing up in the basement, it would not have been possible, so he had to come up with a solution as soon as possible.
All these years, Josef forced Elisabeth to write to her family occasionally, creating an illusion that she was willing to wander outside. During Christmas in 2007, he forced Elisabeth to write another letter in which he told her to suggest that she might soon return from a cult.
But before we figure out what to do next, Kerstin’s serious illness upsets his plan.
At the time, there was only one bottle of aspirin and cough syrup in the basement, which could not at all treat the child ‘ s condition, and she was in increasingly critical condition, as Elisabeth kept begging Josef to take her daughter to the hospital.
After Kerstin fell into a coma because of the fever, he might have thought that it would be a particularly difficult thing to dispose of a near-adult body in the basement if the child died of illness, and Josef finally agreed to it, but he waited a dozen days.
Because every year Josef’s wife, the mother-in-law of Elisabeth, goes on vacation in Italy for a few days, and he waits for her to leave before he can do it.
After Rosemarie left, Kerstin ‘ s condition could no longer be delayed, and Josef finally pretended to “find” her child again at the door and took her to hospital.
A few days later, this 24-year-old underground prison was finally seen again.
Stefan and Felix, 18 years old, first walked out of that cell, first breathed fresh air, first saw high street lights, first saw the night sky and stars, first touched the land, first sat in a car.
And on the way to the hospital, Felix put his nose on the window window, and on the way he didn’t say a word, just looking out the window, nervously and greedyly, and then he said, “Great.” I’m sorry.
The police in the same car didn’t understand and asked him, “What’s so great? I’m sorry.
Felix replied, “All is wonderful.” I’m sorry.
After his arrest, Josef admitted his actions very quickly and, under pressure from the police, handed over the codes of two electric iron doors that had to be passed into the basement. On the same day, the results of the DNA test came out, proving that he was the father of seven children.
With the testimony of Elisabeth, the police obtained court approval and came to Josef ‘ s house on 27 April 2008 for an official search.
The Josef family lived in a three-storey building where he and his wife lived on the third floor and were rented on the first and second floors. The basement where Elisabeth is held is under the first floor.
Figure 9: Josef family chart 9: The Josef family building, built in 1890, was a fairly old building, and in the 1970s the latter built additional rooms on it. It is true that the Government approved the request for an additional basement on the request for construction, but Josef clandestinely illegally expanded behind a false wall, after which Elisabeth and the children were able to access the old and new basements.
As soon as the door was opened, the police were filled with stench, which mixed the smell of rotting old wetness and human body, making the most experienced uncles vomit.
This is the first time in 24 years that someone other than Josef has entered this basement.
To enter the basement, it must pass through a working room that is normally locked. There are two entrances to the basement, one with an iron door weighing more than 900 kilograms, which is so heavy that it cannot be opened from the outside, that it has hardly moved at all.
The other entrance door is 1 metre tall, 60 centimetres wide and weighs 300 kg.
Figure 10: Basement entrance chart 10: The basement entrance must pass through the 8th gate to enter Elisabeth and the confined room for the children. Both of the gates mentioned above are electric switches that can be opened and closed remotely.
After nine years of continuous excavation, the basement was expanded into five rooms, including a bathroom and a kitchen, of which Elisabeth ‘ s first cell in captivity was converted into a small reading room.
The ground pits in the basements are not flat, the walls and roofs are thickly insulated, and a thin pipe is installed along the aisles. The police are presumed to be helping to inject fresh air and to enhance air flow, but it has not worked, and the basements are still low in oxygen and smelly, and the police analyse why Kerstin finally fell ill.
The conditions in the basement are such that the police can only go on a rotational basis to gather evidence, and each group can stay for up to one hour and must come up for air.
What’s amazing is that the top two floors of this basement are rented apartments. Over the past 24 years, more than 100 tenants have been exchanged.
Figure 11: Tenant chart on top of the basement 11: Some of the tenants on top of the basement say they did hear the water pipes sound strange, but Josef explained that it was old and normal. More tenants say it’s someone else’s business and no one thought it would be so terrible.
On the roof of this house, Josef built a pretty nice roof garden.
Figure 12: Roof garden map 12: When he comes out of the basement, he comes to this open and comfortable garden and takes a seat and takes a breath of fresh air.
When the case broke out, the world was shocked. People are asking, what kind of demon is Josef Fritzl?
Figure 13: Josef Fritzl Chart 13: Josef Fritzl Josef Fritzl was born on 9 April 1935. The year in which Elisabeth was locked in the basement was 49 years old. He’s a native-born resident of the city of Amsterdam, living here for the rest of his life.
Figure 14: Juvenile Josef Fritzl Chart 14: Junior Josef Fritzl Josef’s father is Josef Fritzl and his mother Maria Fritzl. Old Josef abandoned them when he was four years old, then joined the Second World War and died on the battlefield.
Josef has been smart since he was a kid, but quite isolated. He’s got good grades, but no friends, no social life. After his high school graduation, he successfully went to university and took a degree in electronic engineering, which led to the path of an engineer. So he has the basic knowledge and ability to dig basements, design electronic iron doors, etc.
After the incident, the police dug up Josef ‘ s background and discovered that the old man, who normally looked so handsome, was carrying the case on his back in the early years. This included an earlier arrest for improper exposure in public.
In 1967, Josef sneaked into a nurse’s apartment and broke into the nurse with a knife. The investigation revealed that he had been following the nurse secretly for some time, and had finally waited for the nurse ‘ s husband to travel to commit the atrocities.
However, for no reason whatsoever, he was only sentenced to one and a half years ‘ imprisonment for this crime and then released from prison for just one year. At the same time, he was also the main suspect in another similar case, but he was not prosecuted for lack of evidence.
As a result of Austrian law, criminal records will only be kept for 15 years, after which they will be permanently removed. So, 25 years later, when he applied for the adoption of his own children and those of his daughter, social welfare agencies were completely unable to find out his past criminal record.
In addition to the two cases known above, the police suspect that he was involved in two other murders that occurred during the same period.
One was Anna Neumayr, a 17-year-old girl, whose body had been found near her house after her disappearance, with a gun that was routinely used in slaughtering animals. On the basis of the circumstances at the scene, the police considered the perpetrator ‘ s criminal motive to be sexual assault and simply killed the victim after the resistance.
Another girl, Martina Posch, was also 17 years old. On 12 November 1986, Posch disappeared from her home and 10 days later her body was found by the lake. Her body was tied to rope and thrown into the lake. The autopsy report confirms that Martina Posch was violated before the murder.
The location of the body was not far from where it was found, and there was a small hotel. The owner of this little hotel is Josef’s wife, Rosemarie.
That means Josef was also around that time. However, due to insufficient evidence, the investigation was only at the stage of suspicion.
When the police turned these old cases out, there was an alarming discovery. Martina Posch, 17, looks very similar to Elisabeth.
In addition, the police found that Josef, who normally looked well, was a regular guest of a nightclub and a strip club.
Neighbors know that he usually hates his wife. They often hear him complain about his wife being old, fat and unattractive. They often hear him say, “She’s too fat, I can’t even look at her, let alone sleep with her.” I’m sorry.
In addition to performing, the strip club to which he often went would provide additional special services. In an interview with the director of the strip club, it was stated that Josef was an old client, who at first glance looked polite and dressed properly, but once inspired, his veterinary character was revealed.
The manager said that 95 percent of the men who came to the strip club were normal, and they looked at the show, and they got excited and satisfied. About 3% may be a little special. But there are around 2% of men who obviously have special sexual needs and who are mentally abnormal, and Josef obviously belongs to one of these 2%.
The dancer with Josef also said that although he was young, he was very violent. He must be obeyed or beaten. One night, when they talked about what was most exciting, Josef said that for him control was the most important thing, the absolute control position, and even more exciting than sex itself.
Every 10 weeks there are new dancers in the strip club, and every time there is a new girl, Josef runs with joy. However, every time she saw him come to the strip club, the girls were even more reluctant to take him away from wanting to perform in front of him.
So, in the daytime, he was a hard-working engineer who, in addition to drawing the tools to build, ran to buy a house, converted it into a small hotel and let his wife manage it. In the darkness that no one can see, he is a demon devoured by madness, enjoying control and violence.
Before the case came to light, however, the city’s media had even given him a special story about his marriage with his wife entering the fiftieth anniversary of the golden marriage, and in the journey of love he raised not only seven children, but also three “grandchildren” for irresponsible daughters.
Prior to his appearance before the court, a specialist psychologist was assigned to Josef for a psychological assessment to prove that his mental state met the requirements of the court.
The psychiatrist Heidi Kastner interviewed Josef in depth several times. During the interview, Josef told many secrets.
You can say he’s honest or he’s completely shameless.
In his conversation, Josef, referring to the underground prison he built, never used the words “Jail” or “dungeon”, which he used “bunker.”
It’s a subtle response to his mind.
The meaning of “dungeon” is self-evident, meaning “imprisonment”, “imprisonment”, “against the will of the person concerned”, “absolute dominance of the master”, etc. It also implies the negative meanings of “negative” and “terror” and “lack of humanity”.
“bunker” suggests that “protection” means that people inside are forced by an “objective, non-human” environment in which “voluntary” is hidden in order to feel safer.
He has repeatedly stressed to doctors that he is not a demon as described by the media, which has created such a terrible image simply to attract the eye. Because he tried to feed Elizabeth and the children on time and fed them as much as he could. And didn’t he provide TV and radio? He’ll have dinner with them, and he bought them toys for Christmas.
The doctor asked him, why did you start thinking about keeping Elisabeth in the basement?
He was right to answer that it was really good intentions. By the time Elisabeth left home, his soul had been broken, and he had only wanted to save her out of love. Had it not been for his prompt intervention, she would have fallen.
As for “that kind” of thing to do to her daughter, Josef was silent and gave an explanation that was probably very real, saying that he was probably born with the blood of a rapist and that he was born to hurt others.
“I’m probably born a rapist. I’ve been doing my best for a long time. If it wasn’t for my own daughter, I might have done something worse. I’m sorry.
It means that everybody’s happy. He tried.
This explains why he finally “naïve” thought he could bring Elizabeth back without any suspicion or consequences.
He admits he didn’t think that Elisabeth would betray him so soon. After all, she was a biological father, who would have starved if she had not been the one who insisted on feeding for so many years; and she and the children would have been able to study because he was trying to improve her living environment.
Well, from the age of 18 to 42, she never saw a ray of sunshine, giving birth to seven children alone with painkillers in a dark, wet and cold room.
Her three kids were taken away when they opened their eyes and laughed.
She watched a child die by her side and was thrown into a boiler and burned. She watched her children grow up pale, bowing in a low room, and they did not even communicate in language, but made strange noises. She’s been violated 3000 times in despair.
When she finally had the courage to expose him, he felt that it was betrayal.
As noted earlier by Josef, his criminal genes are born. After talking to him, the doctor felt that his original family should play an important role.
When Josef was young, his father left their mother and their son, and after his father left, the mother attributed to him the reasons for his departure, believing that he was a Satan of bad luck, so he had no feelings for him, punched and kicked him for three days, and even beat him to death.
According to his description, the doctor restored his mother’s personality to one of the “undetectable and brutal” types.
For Josef, he felt that he had never received the approval and affection of his mother, even after he had married, and that if he needed anything, he would only have had his wife to talk to her, because if he did, the mother would have given him nothing.
Josef, who grew up in such an environment, was diagnosed with a variety of mental disorders, including marginal schizophrenia, personality schizophrenia and sexual psychological disorders.
At the same time, however, the psychologist considered that the influence of the original family was not the cause of his crime and that he was in fact very conscious throughout the crime and was not in a state of self-control. His injuries to others, including imprisonment, aggression, indifference and so on, were motivated solely by his psychotic needs.
He needs to control others, especially from a sexual point of view. He felt this desire very clearly from his heart, and although he could not explain in words why there was such a need, he knew that it had been deep in his heart and had driven him to act to be satisfied.
With age, while he appeared to be better able to hide his perverted desires, the demons who were hidden in their childhood never left.
So he beat the dungeon into his playground, and Elisabeth was his toy.
And he knew exactly what he was doing, but he did it in a cognitive way as a “two-way relationship.” He psychologically treated her as his other wife and, more often, as his own property, thus overcoming moral and ethical psychological obstacles.
He had also psychologically set himself up a safe framework, and he had denied any concept that did not conform to that framework.
For example, he admitted to bringing the video to the basement and asked Elisabeth to match it with the scene. However, he denied that Elisabeth had said that if she refused to do so, he would threaten to starve her and her children or turn off the heat. Because it ran counter to his security framework and made it less natural and better, he must deny it.
Then the psychiatrist found out that, in fact, Elisabeth was not the first “victim” to be locked up by Josef.
Josef grew up with a violent single mother and married 17-year-old Rosemarie at the age of 21. In 1959, when Josef was 24, his mother moved in with his husband and wife.
With the passage of time, the roles of Josef and his mother were accompanied by changes in their physical strength and social status. The brutal mother, who had been beaten, had also begun to develop a hidden fear of him.
After his mother got worse, Josef locked his mother in the attic, blocked the window with bricks, and told the neighbors that the old lady had died. In fact, she was locked in the attic until 1980 when she really died. They’ve been locked up inside and outside for about 20 years.
And soon after his mother died, Josef started building that dungeon.
On 13 November 2008, Josef was formally charged with murder, rape, incest, imprisonment, kidnapping and slavery. Among them, murder is punishable by a maximum of 10 years to life imprisonment, and the other charges combined are approximately 20 years imprisonment.
So if it wasn’t for Michael who died, the police couldn’t prosecute him for murder. Although he’s done so many things that we seem to hurt, without Michael, he’ll be free for at most 20 years.
The trial of Josef began on 16 March 2009. The security situation on that day was extremely tight, with no-fly zones around the Tribunal and no aircraft or drones allowed to approach. The doorlocks within the Court were also replaced early to avoid journalists sneaking in.
After the trial, Josef was taken to court by the police. He was held in the middle by six police officers, and at the beginning of the trial, journalists were present and he took a blue folder to cover his face.
Figure 15: On-site at trial: In order to avoid his suicidal tendencies, the court also assigned a psychologist to advise him. He was well prepared to appear in court.
In court, Josef pleaded guilty to most of the crimes but denied murder and assault. He admitted to burning Michael’s body after he died, but insisted he didn’t murder him.
“I don’t know why I didn’t take him to the hospital. I guess I’m negligent. I thought he could handle it. I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry.
He also spoke out against his daughter. He said that Elisabeth was stubborn and less disciplined, that he was merely trying to protect her, that the outside world was full of drugs, and that alcohol, the evil thing, would eventually destroy her.
“When she reached puberty, she became increasingly disobedient, so I had to take action to save her and prevent her from being corrupted by the outside world before she was completely corrupted. So I must find a place where I can lock her up, even if I must use violence. I’m sorry.
Josef ‘ s statement that his manifestations may seem simple and harsh is due to the circumstances in which he grew up as a child, the fact that his world as a child was still under the shadow of Nazi rule and that Nazi values influenced his values. So he doesn’t talk about warmth.
Josef ‘ s lawyer also described him as a very caring father, a hard-working family man. After all, it takes a lot of energy and money to sustain two families. Who can say he doesn’t care about his children? He brought down a Christmas tree for the children in the dungeon and snowed for them. He brought Elizabeth pictures of three children who had been upstairs to make sure that they lived well and that he would buy them textbooks.
He even gave the kids a canary.
The lawyer said, “Look, the canary is alive, so the conditions in the dungeon are not so bad!”
Elizabeth ‘ s mother, Rosemarie, refused the prosecutor ‘ s request to have her testify, and only brother Harald provided video testimony.
Harald was four years older than Elisabeth and was beaten by Josef from childhood. He and his sister were very close, and Elisabeth had shared many childhood secrets with him. This includes the fact that she was frequently subjected to violations.
Elisabeth told him that before Josef would sneak into her room at night, when Josef was more cautious, had to let her go and masturbate in front of her in order not to be heard. Sometimes she would find a pornographic magazine under her pillow. This life lasted until she could no longer bear it while she was in vocational training and managed to escape.
Harald’s testimony plunged the entire court into silence.
The doctor who made the psychological assessment for Josef also testified and presented her findings. As an expert witness, a psychologist should provide a neutral and objective assessment to assist the jurors in making an accurate judgement about Josef ‘ s criminal motives and future rehabilitation.
Josef’s mind, according to the psychologist, is like a hidden volcano, and there’s magma flowing down there, and that’s his evil desire, and he has no power and no attempt to control the eruption of those desires.
So if he returns to society, he will definitely commit a crime again.
At the same time, Josef also indicated to the psychologist that he felt he could go back and spend the rest of his life with his wife. Because after all, he’s a family man. What does that mean? That means he didn’t realize that what he did to Elisabeth and the kids was a crime, not even something wrong. So inside, when it’s over, you can go back and live again. It’s no big deal.
From this point of view, I think Josef may have some kind of mental disorder, which prevents him from realizing the extent of his actions, but that’s why he didn’t think of removing Elisabeth and the children from their roots, and giving them the chance to see the sun again.
As a victim, Elisabeth and the children did not testify, but she spent four days recording testimony for 11 hours. But this 11 hours of testimony is so shockingly painful that no one can see from the beginning.
On that day, eight jurors appeared before the court, including four women and four men. The judge ‘ s jurors are allowed to watch only two hours at a time. Doctors and psychologists are on standby at the Tribunal site. The judges have also selected four additional candidates for jurors in order to prevent them from reaching the top at any time if any jurors fail to survive.
The day after the hearing, Elisabeth came to court with makeup. Josef saw her far away. The scenes at the time probably struck him badly, after which he decided to change his position and plead guilty to all charges. On 19 March 2009, the court convicted Josef of all charges. He was finally sentenced to life imprisonment and will have the opportunity to be released on parole 15 years later, in 2023.
On the last day of 2021, 86-year-old Josef began a stage psychological test. If he could pass the test, he would be given parole and released from prison. By contrast, he spent nine more years in prison than Elizabeth was in the basement, and the conditions were much better.
To date, local prosecutors have publicly indicated that they will oppose Josef ‘ s application for parole and that they will do their utmost to prevent him from being released on parole.
The story itself did not end after the trial.
Immediately after Josef ‘ s arrest, his wife Rosemarie flew back from Italy to Austria, where she met her 24-year-old daughter, who was crying in each other ‘ s arms. At this point, in their appearance, Elisabeth even looked older.
After the trial, Elisabeth moved with six children and Rosemarie to a local shelter for temporary residence. The Government provided them with a new identity, which they could choose to live with, thus avoiding the attention of the world and the media.
However, changing identity does not solve the underlying problem.
Elizabeth and the three children who have been living in the basement have also had to face a huge shock from outside after they left the dungeon. She and the children, while undergoing physiotherapy, helping their eyes to adapt to the light of nature, and psychotherapy, are used to living in small spaces, and now come to the ground and live in normal houses, which puts unexpected pressure on them.
The therapists have to help the children learn a lot of simple actions, such as how to get up and down the stairs, or how to take a shower in the bathroom and receive hot water from above their heads. Each child’s acceptance of something as simple as bathing varies, with some asking to do it constantly, 10 times a day, while the other child resolutely refuses to take a bath and refuses to step into the bathroom for a week.
After receiving an emergency rescue, and with the careful care of the doctor and mother, Kerstin woke up from the botanical state on 8 June 2008 and gradually escaped danger, which does not mean that she recovered from her health.
She is also under great stress as she slowly rebuilds her body. Because she is in a strange environment, surrounded by new things that have never been touched, by fear of a new life and physical discomfort, she is often in a particularly nervous state. Every time she was nervous, she pulled her hair so hard that the nurse found a large set of hair pulled off her bed. She also cut her clothes into pieces and flushed them with toilets.
Stefan, the largest boy, who was unable to walk in the dungeons because of space constraints during his development, was never able to walk properly on his back, and the doctor said he had more problems with his spine.
Felix, the youngest, was particularly afraid, with a little bit of movement around him, and he jumped, sometimes at night, he could only sleep in the closet. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he grabbed his mother ‘ s clothes and asked to check repeatedly whether there were people hidden under the bed.
The children ‘ s nervous state is highly stressful, and sometimes the change in light or the sound of closure coming from afar gives them immediate shock. Every child is diagnosed with a panic disorder.
They all suffer from severe vitamin D deficiency, with varying degrees of insomnia. They are stunted without exception, and in some cases there are deformities in the body ‘ s bones, with a slight rise of 10 metres and a total lack of direction and orientation in the brain, which keeps them in a state of confusion and panic.
The three children who were brought to live with their grandparents upstairs were not fortunate enough.
Although their living conditions seem to be better than those of their “story downstairs” brothers and sisters, the moral damage is equally great.
On the one hand, Josef disciplined the children with his so-called Nazi ideology, the way he treated his family at home, the way he treated them. Such words were too mild to describe, and none of the three children had escaped his beating. On the other hand, the children were very confused about why they chose to live upstairs, and felt very guilty that they had not suffered with their brothers and sisters.
At the same time, they have to accept the cruel fact that their “grandfather” is actually their “grandfather” and to reverse what the “grandfather” used to say about their mother abandoning their lies and accepting that they are now back in their lives. They had to learn to live with their brothers and sisters downstairs and to become familiar with their mothers, but the gap that they had not been able to fill for the past decade or so.
They must therefore also receive regular psychological treatment to help them fill these emotional black holes.
Worse still, apart from these external symptoms, which can be slowly treated, they all have genetic defects as a result of procreation. These shortcomings will accompany them throughout their lives.
17 of which Elisabeth himself suffered most.
Unlike the children, she spent the longest time in prison, and 18 years before her life she had tasted freedom and knew what the outside world was like. This contrast and the fall is the devil that devours her day and night.
Her father’s treatment was not the whole thing she had been betrayed. She was also betrayed by other relatives.
After Josef’s arrest, there’s been public opinion asking, for the last 24 years, is there really no second person who knows what happened to Elisabeth?
Didn’t her mother ever ask for her whereabouts? Never wondered how babies came from the sky? I’ve never been anxious about my daughter.
After the court hearing, Rosemarie also rejected the prosecutor’s suggestion that she should testify in court, and she was reluctant to “fall down” her husband.
Many people think it’s incredible.
How can a mother not know anything about her daughter’s mysterious disappearance for 24 years, even before she was molested?
But Rosemarie insisted that she did not know anything.
According to her lawyer, Josef was a very strong and violent husband who beats his wife at home when he doesn’t agree. So Rosemarie is in a state of absolute obedience to what he says and what he says. Never asked, never doubted, never resisted.
She was submissive to give birth to seven children for him, and she only brought them into the world, which might guarantee them a full meal, perhaps a basic meal, and the rest would be in the hands of God.
So she didn’t know that Elizabeth had been hurt since she was a child, or why she ran away from home, or why she suddenly “gods to a cult,” or when she “mysteriously appeared and left her child at home.”
To be honest, it’s hard to say if she really doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know.
The refusal to testify, however, has clearly expressed her position that, between her daughter and her husband, she appears to be more of a “beneficial” attitude than anyone else.
In July 2008, Elisabeth officially requested Rosemarie to leave their residence. But she allowed three kids who grew up upstairs to visit them regularly.
Rosemarie lived alone in an apartment after her husband went to prison.
Like the children, Elisabeth had to undergo all kinds of psychological and physical treatment, and the doctor said it was a miracle that after 24 years of abuse she had not gone mad.
There’s a very, very powerful force in her body that supports her 24 years of darkness and despair. Although she lost four children, she managed to protect the remaining three.
In order to calm the children, she allowed them to believe that little dungeons were the world’s full. She did her best to provide them with a limited education, teaching them to read and write, and telling them that, despite the smallness of the space around them, the thoughts and hearts of human beings can extend to limitless, and that while they are confined to a dark, wet and cold basement, they can be free of each other ‘ s company and encouragement, or spiritually, without suffering or despair. Both the police and the doctor were shocked by her intimate feelings with the children. The children had unlimited and unconditional trust and dependence on her.
She was a light in the little dungeon.
Upon her return to the ground, she has also continuously given great encouragement to the children, who live underground, to learn and come to the new world, to teach them how to swim, to take them out to play and to embrace the sun. She also patiently admitted the three children who lived upstairs, as their mothers, to make up for the years they had lost their mother.
Elizabeth soon learned to drive, got a driver’s license. She took the children to summer camp, to climb the mountain and visit the fire station. Take them shopping, buy clothes. She’ll play video games with the kids.
She used her presence to tell the kids that as long as mom was here, everything was fine.
In May 2008, Elisabeth made a poster with the kids. On the poster, she and the children thanked people for their interest and support.
Image 16: Elisabeth with the children’s poster 16:Elisabeth with the children’s poster: “We all appreciate the support and sympathy of all.” Your support has given us great encouragement and help to enable us to survive these difficult times. And let us see that there are good people and honest people in the world who really care about us. We hope that a normal life will soon be restored. I’m sorry.
But things are never that simple, and the road to normalcy is always long and arduous. Doctors say that even so strong Elizabeth has experienced multiple breakdowns in his treatment. Only every time, she stood up and kept going for her children and her future.
“I’ve never seen such a strong woman, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you said she had superhuman powers. I’m sorry.
Elisabeth and the children were sent to live in a village whose name was strictly kept secret by the police and the media allowed only to be called “Village X”.
Everyone in the village knows what Elisabeth and the children have been through, and they have received the family and protected them. Any stranger from outside the village would soon be found and then expelled by the villagers.
In 2009, the doctor of Elisabeth released a message.
She fell in love with her own bodyguard Thomas. Thomas was 23 years younger than she was, but they built a very strong relationship. Soon after, Thomas moved into their house and lived with Elisabeth and the children.
The doctor says love helps Elisabeth recover more quickly from trauma. People say love is the most powerful power in the world.
With the approval of a doctor, Elisabeth gradually reduced the course of psychotherapy, which means that she is slowly returning to normal. According to the doctor, “although she has lost the best years of her life, she is determined to have the meaning of every day that follows. This idea has made her better and an important basis for her better. I’m sorry.
A recent report in 2019 said that Thomas and Elisabeth were still together, and he protected and accompanied them like their big brother.
Elizabeth’s life started again when he was 42.
In order to prevent other “criminals” from worshiping the place as a holy place, the cell closed to Elisabeth and the children for 24 years was filled with cement by the government for several years, but the building above it was resold and redecorated and rented out again as an apartment.
Because of the new renovation, the price is not expensive and the value is high, the renters who were quickly pushed to empty.
After his husband went to prison, Rosemarie made a living by pension and selling handmade backpacks and paintings.
In 2017, two workers discovered a very similar basement under another house in the same city. This house belongs to Josef.
Figure 17: Another house in Josef, another house in Josef, which is also run by Rosemarie, is rented as an apartment and is also called “Seestern”, translated into Starfish.
The house now has tenants in it, but the tenants say they never know there was a hidden basement.
It is even more surprising that, even after Josef ‘ s arrest, the police did not formally search the property until almost 10 years later, the basement had to see the sky.
This house had two fires in Josef’s name. He then rebuilt the house, probably during which time he secretly repaired the basement. But the purpose of his work on this basement is unknown.
Of course Josef himself is in prison today. In 2017, he spent more than $400 and applied for an official change of surname from Fritzl to Mayrhoff.
Figure 18: Josef in prison 18: Josef’s public statement in prison was that he had a cellmate who faked his name and built a Josef Fritzl friend file. He couldn’t have had a fight with this cellmate, and his teeth were knocked out.
More likely, however, because he also knew that he was notorious for trying to avoid public attention by changing his name.
However, this does not mean that he knew what he was ashamed of. In 2019, he gave an interview with a journalist, in which he said that you would look at the rest of the prison and probably shut down their basements (meaning that his crime was no big deal).
When asked about his future, Josef was optimistic. He had great confidence in the Austrian Government and the law and felt that he would certainly be released from prison for the rest of his life and return to normal life in the past.
The case of Josef Fritzl has attracted great attention around the world, and Austrian Prime Minister Alfred Gusenbauer has stated that it affects Austria’s national image, so he plans to promote a new image project to restore Austria’s international reputation.
An in-house rapist was sentenced to only a year and a half. Upon release from prison, the criminal history was eliminated in full by law. He can change his face into a decent person, and his privacy and personal rights are protected, and he can adopt a child with great dignity.
If not Kerstin’s too sick. If it wasn’t for her being 19 years old, it would be difficult to handle. Maybe Elisabeth and the kids are still trapped in that little dungeon.
Maybe they weren’t locked up for 24 years, maybe 34 years, 44.
If Josef had an accident outside, got sick, got hit by a car, or died. Perhaps no one will ever find Elizabeth and the three kids still in the basement, and they’ll starve to death slowly.
Had it not been for the early Michael Josef’s maximum sentence, it would not have exceeded 20 years.
On the one hand, being beaten and humiliated in a dungeon for 24 years, and on the other hand, having food and drink in a state prison and walking for 15 years, they can apply for a “life-long” sentence of parole.
Figure 19: The prison cell in Josef, with a television and an independent toilet chart: The prison cell in Josef, with a television and an independent bathroom, say, how should Austria’s image be restored?
The detective in charge of the case said he had never seen a criminal like Josef. He looks polite and human, but he’s corrupt and dark inside and can’t be called a human. He’s a completely inhuman animal.
Some people say he’s probably born a demon.
I think this goes back to the question that has never been answered: whether evil is born or created.
Josef insisted during the interview that he was born. There is a power of evil in the body that compels itself to harm others and that is rooted in an uncontrollable impulse.
The logic here is that crime is not really “me” but “me” controlled by this evil power and vision. That is why I should not be punished, which is not for me to decide.
The conviction and sentencing of persons with mental illness is, to a large extent, also based on this logic – because patients are unconscious and cannot control themselves, they should not be punished for this.
Josef had made a confession in which he described his history and his heart. At his own request, the testimony was presented to the media for publication, as he did not want the media and the outside world to simply portray him as a devil.
In brief, this testimony is at the core: he thinks he is a misunderstood person.
Here, I’ll translate his confession.
“I was born in a poor family, and my father was a scoundrel, and he was always a woman outside, and rarely stayed at home, so when I was four, my mother kicked him out of the house, and she was right about this decision, and then it was just us.”
My mother was a very strong woman and very strict. She taught me discipline, order and diligence. She gave me a good education, and she herself worked very hard, and she would do anything to support the family.
She was particularly harsh at that time, and she was the best woman I’ve ever seen in the world. In a way, I’m her husband. She’s the boss of the family and I’m the only man in the family. I’m sorry.
My mother was a very decent decent man, and I loved everything about her. I adored her very, very much, but I didn’t do anything. I’m sorry.
Of course, maybe. I had a fantasy about something going on with her. But I was stubborn, almost as stubborn as my mother, so I suppressed my desires and impulses.
And then I grew up and started dating, and I met Rosemarie, and she didn’t have anything like my mom, but I think they had something in common. Of course she’s great, but it’s good in different places. She’s much shyer than my mother and she’s much weaker.
I’ve always wanted a big family, I grew up alone, and if I were a big family, the kids would have partners. I’ve dreamt of having many children since I was a kid, and Rosemarie looked like a good mother, so I didn’t hesitate to marry her.
Tell me the truth: I have always loved her, and I will always love her.
I don’t know why I did this to that nurse in 1967, but all I can say is that I really want to be a good husband and a good father.
I’m a very decent and disciplined man. It is very important to know that I grew up under Nazi rule when discipline and discipline were very important. Isn’t it normal that I may be unconsciously influenced by them to want to discipline my children? I’m definitely not the kind of animal the media tries to paint.
Around 1981 or 82, I started turning a room into a closed single room. I bought a very strong iron door, cement, and then I installed an electronic remote control, and only a specific password would open the door.
I put this air-defence room on the sound-proof floor and then installed a face-washing pool, a toilet, a bed, a stove, and moved into a refrigerator. This air defence room is already powered. So everything is ready.
This is my heaven and my earth, and I am alone. Everyone knows it exists, but everyone knows that I am the only one who can enter this territory. My wife, my children, my tenants, understand that. So no one dares ask, and no one dares to approach.
When someone is out of curiosity, I just explain that it is my private studio, which contains many important private documents, which are my job needs. That’s enough. No one will try to challenge me.
In the case of Elisabeth, she has refused to obey discipline since she reached puberty. She was in the bar all night, smoking and drinking. The freedom she aspires to only destroys her, and I just want to separate her from this evil world and save her. I tried to get her a service job, but she wouldn’t work. She ran away twice, mixed up with the bad guys, and every time I took her home, she ran away again.
So I have to act.
I have to find a place to trap her. Even violence must be used. I need to save her, even if she is handcuffed or chained to a dog, so that she has no chance to escape. It’s a dead cycle, a cycle with no way out, but it’s for her, not for me.
Every day that has passed has made my life increasingly crazy. I did think about letting her out. But I couldn’t make that decision, and between hesitations, every day gets heavier.
I’m also afraid of being arrested, afraid of being found by my family and outsiders. So I’ve been postponing the release date, and over time I’ve found that she can’t be released. Too late.
I’m not a man who would hurt a child. It was only later that… her thoughts about having sex with her got stronger and completely unstoppable. I know she doesn’t like what I did to her, I know I’m hurting her.
But in the end, the idea was so strong that it became an insurmountable addiction.
Actually, I do want to have a baby with Elisabeth. Elizabeth was scared to have a baby at first, but I brought her a birth book so she could learn to deliver. I also prepared her towels, anti-inflammation pills and diapers. I’ve done everything I could.
I look forward to building a family with her. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a full family downstairs, a good wife and a few children?
I prepared everything for her, and every time I left the air defence room, I set up a timer so that, even if I did not return in time, the door of the air defence room would be automatically opened. If I die, Elisabeth and the children will be free again.
After the birth of the youngest child in 2002, I even bought Elizabeth a washing machine so she wouldn’t have to wash her clothes in the pool.
I do know what I’ve done for the last 24 years is wrong. I must have been crazy to do this. But having a second family in the basement is really normal and logical for me.
Elizabeth took good care of our home, and I did everything I could to give. Every time I go down, I bring her flowers, or I bring toys and books to the kids. I’ll be with the kids in adventure movies while Elizabeth cooks, and then we’ll sit down and have dinner.
I’ve been trying to bring Elisabeth and the kids, and I’m getting old and slow, and I know I may not be able to help my second family in the near future. Elisabeth had promised that she would come out and tell the police and the world that she and the children were under the control of a cult and held in a secret place. She promised me she’d do that for nobody.
I certainly hope Elizabeth can say that, although this hope is uncertain and there is a real risk that Elizabeth and the children will betray me, Kerstin’s illness leaves me no choice.
As for control of them, it’s really easy. I don’t need too much violence or force, and Elisabeth and the kids have been very natural to obey me and accept me as the head of the family. They never dared to attack me, and they knew that I was the only one who knew the code of entry, and no one could save them except me.
I only told them once that if they tried to break the door, they’d be electrocuted. That’s enough.
I guess I’m a monster from outside, but I just want to save my own daughter. I’m sorry.
I stopped a few times in the process of translating this confession.
This self-confessional book is in many places a lie, but it can also see some of his mentalities and the causes of his actions.
He had a very complex and contradictory mind towards his mother, whom he feared, admired and hated. She was also a mother and a subconscious lover to him.
In his early years of life, the mother was the woman in full dominance, while the concept of “male power” was deeply entrenched in his growing-up environment. As a result, when he was a teenager, he was controlled by the strength of his mother, and when he reached the age of majority, he carried out extreme “resistance” psychologically and physically.
He needs to “break” her in a radical way.
Although in his confession book Josef said that he had only imagined sexual illusions about his mother, no one knew what he had seen or what he had been doing in his real life.
Perhaps out of fear, he never really stepped out of the way of the invasion, but instead unleashed the idea on Elisabeth. But in the 20 years that put mother in the attic, what had happened, only God knew.
In his self-confession, he did everything in his power to wash himself of himself and to portray himself as a man of good intentions but a moment of confusion.
On the one hand, he had repeatedly said that he knew that he was doing wrong, but on the other hand he had worked hard to show that he had done his best and had done well and responsibly. This split mentality is very typical.
Perhaps he has a natural evil in him, but I believe that his evil is inseparable from his childhood experience.
I wrote this case very hard. This suffering cannot be described in words.
When the director gave Brie Larson the lead on “Room,” I flipped out the contrast between her and Elisabeth.
It is only the real events that take place in real life, which are more tragic than what is described in the film. After the movie comes out of the cinema to meet the sun and normal life, and the real life of Elisabeth and her children, beyond the story, will continue to face the unrecoverable past and countless future challenges.
The only consolation is the admirable Elizabeth, who is really a great woman, a wonderful mother.
It’s hard to imagine how powerful her body and heart are to keep her through that 8,000-plus day and night. Under such difficult conditions, she can also have full love for the children, so that they can grow up as safely as possible.
Unfortunately, children were born in dark dungeons, but fortunately there was such a great mother.
Sometimes life inevitably encounters setbacks and tragedies. The difficulty is how to accept it and then move on. I’ve been thinking about what the doctor said, how powerful she needs to be to hold on to 24 years without going crazy. Sometimes madness is a relief.
There must be light in her heart. I think that’s all that matters.
This tragic case comes to an end, and even though it does not know what will happen to Elizabeth and her children in the future and what will happen to her children, you will be confident that she will have the strength and determination to live a better life in the future.
This is the brightest color of the case and should lighten the faith of many people throughout their lives.
Conspiracy.
References:
‘The urge to taste forbidden fruit was too strong’
Josef Fritzl’s dadhter’s new life returned 10 years after he was Jailed
Josef Fritzl’s dadhter’s new life returned 10 years after he was Jailed
Mother and six children helped in underground room for 24 years see outside world for first time- the Fritzl case
The Horrifying Story Of Elisabeth Fritzl – Who Spent 24 Years In Her Father’s Mason
6. Excusive: Celar girl Elizabeth Fritzl built her own dungeon
Monster told his captains he’d Gas them if they tried to escape
8. Josef Fritzl played sick daughter’s final trip until the day
‘No one will believe me’: first words of daughter keep captive for 24 years by etil Josef Fritzl are revealed
The Family Man of Amsterdam:
Dark secrets are behind Josef Fritzl’s kidnap and race of his daughter 10 years
12. FREE TO LOSE JOSEF Fritzl’s Daghter Elisabeth, 52, finds love with bodyguard, 29, agreed to protect her after 24 years locked in vir dad’s cape dungeon
Inside Josef Fritzl’s dungeon 10 years on:
14. Josef Fritzl technical: court hears hearing daughter’s account of cell ordal
Record number: YX11QxNWG1d
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
