Joseph Fritzl
The story goes back to August 28,1984,
When Elizabeth is found missing. Her family and friends start searching for her on very first day itself but they couldn't find her. Her parents file a missing report in a nearby police station. Police search for weeks in whole town and in the city, but they don't get infact even an evidence of her existence.
After a month, her family again goes to police station but with a handwritten note, this time. According to her parents, this note was written by Elizabeth, and they recieved it through a post. In this note, she writes, “ She is tired off living with her parents and she doesn't want to live anymore with them. She doesn't want her parents to search for her. If they try to search for her, she will leave the country”. After reading the note, police confirm it to her parents, if the letter is written by Elizabeth. They say, “ Yes, it seems so. It's her handwriting”.
Before leaving the police station, her father tells police that Elizabeth may have left house because she was associated with religious sects and that could be only reason as she often used to talk about religious sects. To confirm it if she was really was into religious cults, police question her friends and they share that she was never into such things and neither she ever wished to. Police get more confused.
They sneak on in her family's history. They get to know, she is 7 siblings. Her father is a reputed electrical engineer and her mom is a housewife. Joseph who has a very good behaviour towards people is a narcissist to his family. Everyone is scared of him in his family. Only Elizabeth dare to speak infront of him. She was often beaten up by her father. That's why they never like each other. In 1982, she left her house for Vienna but police brought her back to her house.
Reminding this incident, police think that it's her second attempt to leave the house. They stop the investigation. After a year, they close the file when they find no clue of her.
24 years later, on April 19, 2008,
An old man comes to a hospital with a 19 years old girl named Christine for her treatment. The girl’s skin was almost transparent and yellowish. She was getting severe asthma attacks. The symptoms she had was very rare ànd those doctors had never seen it before.
They ask to old man, who she is. He tells them that she is his grand daughter. They interrogate many more questions but he refuses to answer. When doctors check her identity on medical database, they find no information of her. Being suspicious, they call police.
When police come to hospital, they recognise Joseph. They ask him, what's happening. He tells them, “When he opened his house’s door, he found Christine lying on the ground with a note. In the note, it was written that her name is Christin and she is the daughter of Elizabeth. We should take her to the hospital for her treatment as Elizabeth can't afford the expense of her treatment”.
Christin is having a rare disease and to know more about it, it's important to search out her mom. Police air a message through news channels, Elizabeth should contact them ASAP for Christine’s treatment. Within a week, Elizabeth comes to the hospital with her dad. Doctors ask him, where he got her. But he didn't tell them anything. Elizabeth was looking as a very old lady, her hair was white and her shoulders were leaned forward. Her skin was very similar to her daughter.
Police take both of them to police station and start investigation with them in each separate room. They ask her, where she was for 24 years but she didn't speak anything. She ask them, she will share anything only if they promise her that she will not be seeing her father's face again in her life. Police make promise to her and she starts speaking.
“ I was nowhere but in my house only. My dad was making a bomb shelter. I was asked to help him as there was one door left to be fixed.
I climbed down the stairs into the cellar and helped him to fix the door in the dusty confines of his underground creation. As I turned to leave, a piece of cloth soaked in ether was held over my mouth and nose and my world went into dark.
There were initially two access points to the basement– a heavy hinged door and a metal door reinforced with concrete operable via a remote-control device. A total of eight doors had to be opened before reaching the purpose-built cellar. The final door before the darkness of the tomb-like cellar was the one that I myself unwittingly helped him to install it.
I was being beaten and raped since the second day I was trapped in the cellar. He forced me watch violent porn videos and recreate with him.
In 2nd year, I was pregnant for 10 weeks but I miscarried. In 4th year, I was again pregnant. I asked him to take me to the hospital but he denied. He gave me disinfectant, a book on childbirth, a pair of dirty scissor for my delivery. And I managed myself to deliver my baby alone without any assistance. Later, I similarly gave births to 6 more babies of him.
Years by years, he snatched three kids of me and forced me to write notes for my parents that I was leaving my kids to my parents because I couldn't take care of them. In 1996, I gave a birth to my son who had respiratory issues. I asked my dad to take him to the hospital but he denied. My son died in the basement in my hands. He then burnt his body in incinerator.
In first five years, I didn't speak. He often threatened me saying, “ If I don't do what he says, I'll be treated more worse and I will never be able escape from the cellar anyway”.
He would often warn me and my children saying,
“If we try to escape, we would be killed. He told us that he had installed a system so that the doors would give us electric shocks if we tried to open them and that poison would be released into the cellar if we tried to escape, killing us all instantly. He would punish us by switching off all the power to the cellar for days at a time so that we were left alone in total darkness.”
Now,
Imagine, what if your home is the darkest place for you? Continue reading
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