2024-02-08 05:38:03
Elisabeth Fritzl was locked up by her father when she came of age in a small underground home that he himself had built—at least a year before—under the garden of the family home. A kind of secret bunker in which the woman remained captive for 24 years. The first five lived alone, then the children who were born as a result of the systematic violations to which his jailer subjected him and which – on the other hand – became his greatest motivation to stay alive.
She gave birth to seven children. One of the babies was born with respiratory failure and died shortly after after not receiving the medical assistance he needed, according to the ruling that holds his father responsible for his death. Michael was not the only one of Elisabeth’s children who suffered from different health problems derived from incestuous nature of its conception. This is also the case of Kerstin, the eldest of Josef Fritzl’s daughters-granddaughters, who is the one who managed to put an end to the hell in which they lived (her, her mother and two of her brothers).
When the young woman was 19 years old, she had multiple organ failure caused by a genetic disease and Fritzl had to take her to the hospital, an occasion that she took advantage of to ask for help. The health workers who treated her they found a help note in one of his pockets and an investigation was opened that ended with the arrest of the monstruo de Amstetten. An Austrian citizen who was defined by his neighbors as polite and charming. Finally he was he is sentenced to life imprisonment for the crimes of murder due to omission of help, slavery, deprivation of liberty, rape, incest and aggravated coercion.
He planned it for years
Fritzl was able to concoct his Machiavellian plan for years. According to public The Guardianthe electrical engineer asked for the permits to build a cellar in his house long before locking up his daughter. She received authorization to carry out the reform towards the end of the 70s. Elisabeth’s captivity began in 1984, but she told police that the rapes began six or seven years earlier, when she was 11 or 12 years old. He himself later acknowledged that she had become “an addiction“.
The young woman wanted to go as far away as possible when she came of age. She had thus communicated it to those around her, so Fritzl knew that – if she allowed it – I was going to lose control about her. As soon as her daughter turned 18, she locked her up and made everyone believe that she had run away to join a cult. The morning after putting her in the basement, she put a disappearance report so as not to raise suspicions. He also forced the young woman to write different letters that made his version of what happened credible, mainly directed at his mother.
Will he be released?
First of all, to inform you of your departure. Then to justify Josef showing up with Elisabeth’s three children to raise with his wife—Rosemarie—and the rest of her family. He thus hid for almost a quarter of a century the atrocities that he committed in that basement. After her release, Elisabeth and her children received new identities —to help them maintain their anonymity and reduce the media pressure on them—and they started a new life. Although always with the fear that the monstruo de Amstetten.
Fifteen years after Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment, an Austrian court has decided transfer him to a prison for common prisoners. That is, he should leave the high-security psychiatric hospital where he was confined so that he can serve the rest of his sentence in a regular cell. A very controversial resolution because opens the door for the defense to request his release, as has already happened. His lawyer alleges that the prisoner is no longer a danger to society and there is no risk of recidivism.
‘Village
As a result of these events, the European press has once again focused on how the victims live of the monstruo de Amstetten. Of course, without revealing any data that would allow them to be identified. Although their neighbors, they say, know who they are. According to Daily MailElisabeth—56 years old—lives with her children in a small village located about 30 minutes from the basement where she was locked up for 24 years and the family lives a normal life. It is even common to see them in the town restaurant, some locals say.
The woman’s is a single family Home two floors with a small pool and a “very well cared for” garden. Elisabeth, who received a significant subsidy for each of her children when the facts were uncovered, would have been in charge of keeping Kerstin close. Her eldest daughter lives independently but very close to her, right in front of her. Both properties “overlook flat and monotonous lands”, which would be found “close to the Danube River“.
For its part, the newspaper The Mirror assures that Elisabeth’s six children, who are now between 21 and 35 years old, They sleep with the doors open and receive therapy weekly. Most of them live with their mother in the aforementioned house, which she describes as “a house painted in bright colors” located in the Austrian countryside, which the country’s media refers to as ‘Village X’ so that it cannot be located.
The bodyguard, her husband
Elisabeth fell madly in love with the man who was assigned the task of protecting her once he left the basement where she was held captive for more than two decades. This is Thomas Wagner, a bodyguard for the A&T company who is 23 years younger than her. From what his surroundings say, you could say that it was a crush.
The woman and the three children who lived with her in the cell since birth were released on April 26, 2008. From that moment on, Wagner became her shadow and also her greatest support. A few months after meeting, they formalized their relationship. In 2009, they decided to live together (he moved into the family home).
The couple married about four years ago, when Elisabeth was 52, and they are still together. “This is proof that Love is the most powerful force in the world,” says one of the caregivers of the psychiatric team that has treated the daughter of the monstruo de Amstetten with whom the newspaper could speak The Mirror.
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A normal life”
In these 15 years, Elisabeth has made up for lost time. Her environment assures her that she has done her homework with her children, she has learned to drive, she has her circle of friends and she is determined to “May each of your days be full of activity“. Something that agrees with the information offered in 2011 by a sister-in-law of Josef Fritzl, who stated that her niece had managed to regain normality.
He said, he loved shopping because “she couldn’t do it while she was locked up.” “All the children go to school and work hard. Felix, the youngest, has a PlayStation,” she added. However, the path to achieving that normality was not easy. “Shortly after her release, the woman began to develop a obsession with cleanlinessshowering up to 10 times a day,” the medical reports stated.
On the other hand, the relationship of women with the three children that Josef took above, to the family home, was forged over the years. Lisa (1992), Mónica (1994) and Alexander (1996) grew up without the presence of their mother or the three brothers who lived in captivity – Kerstin (1988), Stefan (1990) and Félix (2002) -, a few meters of them under the ground.
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