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posted May 03, 2008 03:04 PM |
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Fritzl's Cellar of Horror
A man named Josef Fritzl, 73 years old from Austria, locked his daughter at his house's cellar, for the last 24 years. He had raped her, violeted her and physically and emotionally abused her. She had had 7 children at that cellar. DNA tests prove that he's their father (and also their grandfather). 1 of them died shortly after the birth, and 3 of them had been kept in the cellar with Elizabeth, Fritzl's daughter, and had never seen the day's light, until they were found a few days ago. Josef Fritzl let the other 3 children to get out and raised them with his wife, but he threatened his daughter, Elizabeth, that if she tries to escape, he would kill her with gas.
A similar case happened in Austria, when a woman was kidnapped for 8 years, but this seems to be even worse. Austria is just shocked, and everyone is asking "how didn't people notice?". Fritzl announced his daughter "missing" 24 years ago, when he kidnapped her, and nobody suspected that he locked her at the cellar. The neighbors say that they hadn't hear a thing, and hadn't realized what a terrible thing had happened under their noses.
Josef Fritzl's sister in law says: "Every day at nine in the morning, Josef would get into the cellar. He said he was drawing engineering plans that he would sell to companies. Often he would stay there all night."
Elizabeth Fritzl and her 3 children that had been kept in the cellar with her, were taken to hospital. Elizabeth is receiving a psychiatric treatment and the kids, who also have a lot of bad physical problems, some witout teeth (since they had never visited a doctor!) are hospitalized.
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posted May 04, 2008 02:00 PM |
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He looks like the grinch in that pic
The whole situation is even wierder when you think about it. Those kids have genes that are 75% his. It's like he was abusing little versions of himself.
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posted May 04, 2008 02:10 PM |
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I heard about that week ago. They guy is psychopath, but he is also very vulpine and smart.
The rest of the Fritzl family lived in the house upstairs and had been forbidden by the domineering Josef Fritzl from ever going into the cellar, where the dungeon was.
The secret location was so well hidden that when the police searched the property they failed to find it until Mr Fritzl showed them where it was.
To get to the dungeon you have to pass through five different rooms in the cellar - including a room containing a furnace, a small office room and Mr Fritzl's workshop. Hidden behind a shelf in the workshop is a one metre-high reinforced concrete door.
The dungeon is entered via a narrow passageway leading into rooms that include a cooking area and shower facilities, with children's drawings on the walls. These rooms cover an area of approximately 60 sq m (650 sq ft).
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ORF, Austria's public broadcaster, reports that the workshop and cellar area was strictly off limits to the Fritzl family members who lived upstairs.
Mr Fritzl sublet parts of the family house to tenants - who recall being forbidden to enter the cellar.
"Whoever enters it will be given immediate notice," one former tenant was told, according to the Austrian newspaper Kurier.
The secret door was electronically locked and could only be opened with a special code and a remote control - which Mr Fritzl is reported to have carried with him at all times.
The dungeon is divided into cells - some parts no more than 1.70m (5.6ft) high.
A narrow corridor, five metres long, leads to an area which includes cooking facilities and a small bathroom with a shower. The floor is uneven and bumpy. A tube provided ventilation.
Police said there were also two bedrooms - each containing two beds. At least part of the dungeon appeared to be padded and well sound-proofed.
Police have refused to circulate pictures of the victims' sleeping areas or possessions to the press, saying they wished to protect their privacy.
Lack of oxygen
The rooms are described as being neat and tidy. There are no windows. The three children who lived in the cellar, 19-year-old Kerstin and her two brothers aged 18 and five, had never seen daylight, and grew up with artificial light.
They had no fresh air and no room to exercise or run around. Hospital officials said the lack of oxygen may have contributed to Kerstin's illness. She remains in a critical condition. Police described the two boys as very pale, small and weak.
Children's paintings and posters were hung on the walls. Police say there was a television with a video player and a radio.
All of Elisabeth's seven children were born in the dungeon without medical supervision. One died shortly after being born.
Gradually enlarged
As Mr Fritzl's secret family grew, he began to enlarge the dungeon. Police say it is still unclear how he managed to carry out this construction work secretly, as well as deliver food and clothing to Elisabeth and the three children without being noticed.
They believe the underground dungeon was originally one room, equipped only with washing facilities, which was gradually enlarged over the years. It is thought Mr Fritzl may also have expanded under the house's garden.
Amstetten authorities authorised the building of a cellar in 1978, city spokesman Hermann Gruber told the Austria Press Agency.
Mr Gruber said inspectors examined the project in 1983 - the year before Elisabeth went missing - and did not notice anything suspicious, but that he believed Mr Fritzl had not stuck to the original plans but had secretly expanded the cellar area.
Source: BBC
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posted May 04, 2008 02:14 PM |
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This whole thing shocked the whole world. When I saw it on the news, I was shocked. I just can't believe a father would do that to their daughter. I don't understand how anyone can do that to someone else, it just doesn't make sense.
Makes me angry that someone like that would do an act like he did. 
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posted May 04, 2008 02:53 PM |
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This case reminds me of another, similar case, that caused a lot of mayhem in Austria 1.5 years ago: the case of Natasha Kampuch, who was kidnapped as an eight-year-old, and was liberated when she was about twenty.
In Belgium we have bastards of the similar kind: Michel Fourniret and Marc Dutroux were the most terrible childmurderers Belgium has ever seen.
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Coincidence? I think not!!!!
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted May 04, 2008 03:33 PM |
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How come everyone noticed this but no one cared to make a topic about the cult in USA? 
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posted May 04, 2008 03:38 PM |
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I can't imagine how it's like to grow in a closed dungeon for your entire life. That man ruined the entire lives of his own daughter, (which is supposed to be against the intentions of a parent) and brought to the world 6 miserable children, which are going to have physical and mental problems for the rest of their lives.
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How come everyone noticed this but no one cared to make a topic about the cult in USA?
I haven't heard of that. You can make a thread for it.
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted May 04, 2008 03:49 PM |
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posted May 04, 2008 04:30 PM |
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Edited by Lexxan at 16:35, 04 May 2008.
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Cults! I hate Cults! There is only one Cultist that is more than a sheep and that is Agrael 
Seriously I think Cults should be watched carefully... you may not know what will happen. As for Fritzl and all other bastards... I hope that this will encourage policemen all over the world to be more alert (thank you !), it is regrettable though that people need such an immorality to awaken their common sence.
And the children, can you imagine how their lives are being destroyed ? None of their guardians seem to care. As long as the cults faith (in this case) is resected. Fanatic fools! I don't understand how anyone can act like that! Elisabeth Fritzl life is destroyed as well, 30 years imprisoned by someone who should be a guardian and protector rather than an Dominating Bastard !!!
He destroyed her life, and that of her children, and later in court he'll probably be cheecky to everyone like he was accused wrongfully. Such impudence!
Such things make me very angry an bitter. Or maybe I'm just sour
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