Girl in the Cellar - The Natascha Kampusch Story

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That night, she was taken into custody to be questioned about her daughter’s illness and her father’s story. After making the police promise she never had to see her father again, Elisabeth Fritzl told the tale of her 24-year imprisonment. Josef Fritzl (82) heißt jetzt mit Nachnamen Mayrhoff"[Josef Fritzl (82) is now named by the surname Mayrhoff]. Heute (in German). Heutectic. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017 . Retrieved 13 June 2017.

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In 2011, the Austrian film Michael, which has a plot that resembles the Natascha Kampusch case, was released. The trial of Josef Fritzl commenced on 16 March 2009, in the city of Sankt Pölten, presided over by Judge Andrea Humer. On the first day, Fritzl entered the courtroom attempting to hide his face from cameras behind a blue folder, which he was entitled to do under Austrian law. After opening comments, all journalists and spectators were asked to leave the courtroom, whereupon Fritzl lowered his folder. Fritzl pleaded guilty to all charges with the exception of murder and grievous assault by threatening to gas his captives if they disobeyed him. [53] a b c Dahlkamp, Jürgen; Kraske, Marion; Von Mittelstaedt, Juliane; Röbel, Sven; Von Rohr, Mathieu (5 May 2008). "How Josef Fritzl Created his Regime of Terror". Spiegel Online. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008 . Retrieved 6 May 2008. Wolfgang Přiklopil ( [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈpr̝ɪklopɪl]; 14 May 1962 – 23 August 2006) was an Austrian communications technician. He was born to Karl and Waltraud Přiklopil in Vienna, and was an only child. His father was a cognac salesman and his mother was a shoe saleswoman. [35] Přiklopil worked at Siemens for a time as a communications technician.

Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime She awakes ... Miss Silver on a fantastic adventure--the last written by Patricia Wentworth (November 10, 1877, Mussoorie, India - January 28, 1961, Camberley, United Kingdom), ... a b Hall, Alan (15 May 2008). "Amstetten cellar victims thank town for support". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 15 May 2008. In March 2009, Elisabeth and her children were forced to move out of the family's hide-away home and returned to the psychiatric clinic where medical staff had started trying to heal the family and unite the "upstairs" and "downstairs" siblings during the previous year. Elisabeth was reported to be distraught and close to a breakdown after a British paparazzo had burst into her kitchen and started taking photographs. [56]

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Speculations arose of child pornography rings or organ theft, [14] leading officials to also investigate possible links to the crimes of French serial killer Michel Fourniret. [15] Kampusch had carried her passport with her when she left, as she had been on a family trip to Hungary a few days before, so the police extended the search abroad. Accusations against Kampusch's family complicated the issue even more. [16] Captivity [ edit ] a b Pidd, Helen (18 March 2009). "Timeline: Fritzl cellar case". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 28 November 2017. a b c d e f Gammell, Caroline (16 March 2009). "Josef Fritzl trial: Elisabeth gave birth alone and afraid". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018 . Retrieved 4 April 2018. At weekends Priklopil's elderly mother dropped by to cook and clean for her unmarried son. He had only two friends, police said. Neither appears to have known anything about the girl hidden in his cellar. "We didn't suspect anything," said one elderly couple living down the road.

After his arrest, Fritzl claimed that his behaviour toward his daughter did not constitute rape but was consensual. In extracts from talks with his lawyer, Fritzl said that he "always knew during the whole 24 years that what I was doing was not right, that I must have been crazy to do such a thing, yet it became a normal occurrence to lead a second life in the basement of my house." Regarding his treatment of the family he had with his wife, Fritzl stated, "I am not the beast the media make me to be." Regarding his treatment of Elisabeth and her children in the cellar, he explained that he brought flowers for Elisabeth and books and toys for the children into the "bunker," as he called it, and often watched videos with the children and ate meals with Elisabeth and the children. Fritzl decided to imprison Elisabeth after she "did not adhere to any rules any more" when she became a teenager. "That is why I had to do something; I had to create a place where I could keep Elisabeth, by force if necessary, away from the outside world." He suggested that the emphasis on discipline in the Nazi era, during which he grew up until the age of 10, might have influenced his views about decency and good behaviour. The chief editors of News magazine noted in an editorial that they expected Fritzl's statement to form the basis of the defence strategy of his lawyer. Critics said his statement may have been a ploy to prepare an insanity defence. [25]

Who is Elisabeth Fritzl?

After reportedly "hundreds of requests for an interview" with the teenager, "with media outlets offering vast sums of money", Kampusch was interviewed by Austrian public broadcaster ORF. The interview was broadcast on 6 September 2006 with her approval. ORF did not pay a fee for its interview [49] but agreed to forward any proceeds from selling the interview to other channels, forecasted to total 300,000 euros, [50] to be donated to women in Africa and Mexico by Kampusch. [51] Likewise she was planning projects to help these women. [52] Interest was enormous. [53] On 29 April, it was announced that DNA evidence confirmed Fritzl as the biological father of his daughter's children. [41] His defence lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said that although the DNA test proved incest, evidence was still needed for the allegations of rape and enslavement. [42] In their 1 May daily press conference, Austrian police said that Fritzl had forced Elisabeth to write a letter the previous year indicating that he may have been planning to release her and the children. The letter said that she wanted to come home but "it's not possible yet." [43] Police believe Fritzl was planning to pretend to have rescued his daughter from her fictitious cult. [44] Police spokesman Franz Polzer said police planned to interview at least 100 people who had lived as tenants in the Fritzl apartment building in the previous 24 years. [45] Cell [ edit ] Josef Fritzl kommt in ein "normales" Gefängnis". Kurier. 20 April 2022. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022 . Retrieved 27 May 2022. It cannot be the whole story, but it was surely much less of it than Five would have liked, and for that alone you wanted to salute her.