Meanwhile, Polzer told reporters how Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, was kept in a single, narrow room on an extended cable, resembling a dog leash, for the first nine months of her imprisonment.
Everybody had to be silent when he entered the room. Rosie and the kids lived in complete fear of him."Ĭhristine said the man treated his children like soldiers under his command. My sister Rosemarie was not even allowed to bring him a cup of coffee. Questions about why he was down there for so long were banned. "He would go into the cellar in the morning and spend all day down there, and often he would spend the night. I never felt confident to say anything that could possibly offend him."
"Josef Fritzl, who was known as 'Sepp,' scared everybody in the family. "He tolerated no dissent," she said in the interview. The small Austrian town of Amstetten has become an attraction for so-called catastrophe tourists looking to get a first-hand glimpse of the "house of horrors" where an incestuous father admittedly imprisoned and raped his daughter, fathering seven of her children. Prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek today revealed that Elisabeth Fritzl had returned with investigators to the windowless dungeon, which was her home for almost 24 years, to help them with their work. This door was hidden behind a heavy metal door, which leads to a soundproof gateway to the electronically secured door, which they had first discovered when they entered the basement prison nine days ago." Polzer also said that his investigators "have been able to find another secret door, allowing for a hidden access to the dungeon. "He's been planning to build the secret dungeon in the early '80s - years before he eventually abducted his daughter Elisabeth - which indicates to us he's been planning his evil crime meticulously for quite some time," Polzer said. PASSAU, Germany, — - Austrian police are now convinced that Josef Fritzl had been planning to imprison and rape his daughter well ahead of time, prompting them to investigate the years of Fritzl's life that preceded the crime, the head of police Franz Polzer told a news conference in Amstetten today.
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