They also said he must have had help to do it.
He
started planning to build the windowless prison, which was separated
from the house by eight locked doors, as long ago as 1978. He
later forced Elisabeth to live in the dungeon, where he repeatedly
raped her, while telling his wife she had run away to join a
cult. Three of her children were then forced to live in the
dungeon,
while another three were taken upstairs to live. The
eldest of the imprisoned children is fighting for her life in hospital.
The need to get her medical help was what led to their discovery.
Kirsten, 19, is in
intensive care and said to be breathing
weakly.
Elisabeth
Fritzl and father Josef
The 73-year-old suspect
has not yet been charged but his
lawyer has said he is preparing an insanity defence. Earlier,
Fritzl's sister-in-law, identified only as Christine R, said she had
been scared by Josef Fritzl, 73, when they met at family
gatherings. He instilled a culture
of fear in his home, she added. "When he said it was
black, it was black, even when it was 10
times white," she said. "He tolerated no
dissent."
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He is profoundly evil. He would have done in politics.