This door was the last piece needed to seal what would turn out to be the chamber where Elisabeth was held captive for 24 years.
Almost a month later, Fritzl handed over a letter to the police, the first of several that he had forced Elisabeth to write while in captivity.
Fritzl told police that she had most likely joined a religious cult.
But Josef Fritzl wouldn’t forget & over the next 24 years, he would make that very clear to his daughter.
At the minimum, he would visit her in the basement three times a week. Usually, it was every day.
For the first two years, he left her alone, keeping her captive.
Two years later, however, she got pregnant again, this time carrying to term. In August of 1988, a baby girl named Kerstin was born.
Kerstin & Stefan remained in the cellar with their mother for the duration of her imprisonment, being brought weekly rations of food and water by Josef.
Josef, would sometimes molest the children too.
One more was allowed to remain in the basement with her, one died shortly after birth, and the other three were taken upstairs to live with Josef & his wife(Elisabeth's Mom).
Sometimes he'd beat her & make her unconscious, then have sex with her "unconscious" body.
Sometimes he won't bring her food for a week, just to punish her.
He had gotten away with it for 24 years, and for all the police knew he was going to continue for another 24.
However, in 2008, one of the remaining children in the cellar fell ill.
She’d fallen rapidly and critically ill and Elisabeth was beside herself.
Grudgingly, Josef agreed to take her to a hospital.
For a week, the police questioned Kerstin & asked the public for any information on her family.
The police eventually grew suspicious of Josef and reopened the investigation into Elisabeth Fritzl’s disappearance.
He and Elisabeth went to the hospital where Kerstin was being treated.
Over the next two hours, she told the story of her 24 years in captivity.
Shortly after midnight, police officers completed the interview.
The home is under constant CCTV surveillance and police patrol every corner.
The family doesn’t allow interviews anywhere within their walls and decline to give any themselves.
The efforts to conceal her new identity were made to keep her past hidden from the media and let her live her new life.
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