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Josef Fritzl deluged with 'love letters' from lonely women

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 9:43AM / Standard Entry

I can't believe it!!! After all he had done, he was deluged with love letters!!!

Austrian ‘cellar monster’ Josef Fritzl has received 200 letters in prison from women offering him support and affection.

The warped women have reportedly told the Austrian, who kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar below his house for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, that he is misunderstood and ‘good at heart’.

They accept his claims that he kept Elisabeth under lock and key to prevent her from the lure of drugs and drink in the outside world.

In an even stranger, macabre twist, some of the letters reportedly believe Fritzl wanted to teach his daughter ‘about the joys of motherhood’, according to The Sun.

The 73-year-old, who is being kept in Austria’s Sankt Poelten prison, has also received a stack-load of hate mail and is due in court again on Friday, where he will almost certainly be sent back to jail to await trial.

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House of horrors

Saturday, Jun 7, 2008 10:10AM / Standard Entry

For 24 years, Dad kept daughter locked in basement which he entered via secret door

AMSTETTEN (AUSTRIA) - THE horror story that shocked Austria first came to light when Josef Fritzl was forced to take seriously ill Kerstin out of the basement to seek treatment at the local hospital on April 19.

He told doctors that the 19-year-old had been dumped on his doorstep by his long-lost daughter Elisabeth, who left a note asking for help.

As the doctors could not determine the cause of the teenager's illness, they asked for her mother to come forward to provide a medical history.

That was when Fritzl allowed his daughter and her two other children aged 18 and five to leave their underground home for the first time.

He made up a story that his missing daughter had finally chosen to return home.

According to ORF, Austria's state-run news agency, a DNA test later revealed that Fritzl was not just Kerstin's grandfather but also her father.

On April 26, police, acting on a tip-off from an unidentified person, detained Fritzl and Elisabeth near the hospital for questioning.

Police yesterday said that the 73-year-old had confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children by her.

To his neighbours in the industrial town of Amstetten with a population of 22,000, Fritzl was a likeable and polite man who was always ready to help others.

No one could begin to imagine that he was in fact leading a horrific double life.

'He managed to create a legend, one which everyone believed,' said Interior Minister Guenther Platter.

Apart from Elisabeth, now 42, Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie have six other children.

During questioning and assured by the police that she would have no further contact with her father, Elisabeth gave details of her ordeal which began in 1984 when she was 18.

That was when, she said, her father lured her into the basement of the block where they lived and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her.

She told police she had been raped repeatedly by her father from the age of 11.

To cover up his daughter's disappearance, Fritzl told his wife that she had run away to join a cult and did not want to be found.

During her captivity, Elisabeth gave birth to seven children. One of them, a twin baby born in 1996, died a few days later. Her father took it away and burned it.

The two oldest children - Kerstin and Stefan, 18 - and five-year-old Felix had been locked up since birth and had never seen sunlight.

As for the other children - Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12 - Fritzl raised them after telling his unsuspecting wife that Elisabeth had abandoned them.

Each time, he forced his daughter to write a letter, such as the one in 1993: 'The baby is nine months old. She will have a better life with grandma and grandpa than with me.'

Investigators described the basement prison as a sophisticated network of chambers with facilities for sleeping, cooking and washing. An electrical engineering technician by training, Fritzl entered the basement through a hidden door operated by a secret code, police said.

'There was a shelf with plenty of cans and containers, and behind the shelf was a door made of reinforced concrete, secured electronically and running on steel rails, and only the suspect knew the code,' said local official Heinz Lenze.

Newspaper headlines called the case the 'crime of a monster' and stories questioned the authorities and residents of Amstetten for failing to notice 'the martyrdom in the horror house'.

The children and Elisabeth, who is described as frail and deeply disturbed, are receiving psychological counselling.

The case is all the more shocking because it reminded many people of one involving another Austrian girl. Natascha Kampusch was 10 when she was abducted by by Wolfgang Priklopil in 1998 and locked up in a cell for eight years before escaping in August 2006.

'The community of Amstetten, including its population, should drown in shame...just like in Strasshofen with Priklopil,' the Oesterreich newspaper wrote in an editorial.

Sourece : The Straits Times 29 April 2008

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'Self Appraisal'

Saturday, Jun 7, 2008 9:52AM / Standard Entry

A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits (phone numbers).

The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:

Boy: 'Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?

Woman: (at the other end of the phone line): 'I already have someone to cut my lawn..'

Boy: 'Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now.'

Woman: I'm very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn.

Boy: (with more perseverance): 'Lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm beach , Florida.'

Woman: No, thank you.

With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.

The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.

Store Owner: 'Son... I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job.'

Boy: 'No thanks!'

Store Owner: But you were really pleading for one.

Boy: No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to!'

This is what we call 'Self Appraisal'

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Liao Ning Girl on the earthquake

Monday, May 26, 2008 10:18AM / Standard Entry

This video is about a liaoning girl commenting about how she feels about the sichuan earthquake.

Video:
http://youtube.com/?v=mutk7DUQ9q0

Though I find that it is very unfeeling of her to say such thing, but I do sympathy with her.

One thing amazed me is that throughout the video, it is clear that she recorded the video in a public place with people passing by. Some even stopped to listen to her speech.

And from their expressions, you would find that though some looked shcoked, while some...amused. Yet, nobody stopped her while she's doing the record.

But now, everyone rushed forward to blame her.

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The Fatal 8

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:50AM / Standard Entry

In less than four months, China has been pelted by crippling blizzards and riots in Tibet. These were followed by chaos on international legs of the Olympic torch relay, fueled by pro-Tibet demonstrators. Then came a bloody train crash followed by this week's deadly, 7.9-magnitude earthquake in central Sichuan province.

Interestingly, some Chinese-language Web sites are pointing out that that No. 8 seems to be bringing bad luck. The snowstorm struck on 1-25. The numbers added together: 1+2+5
8. The Tibet rioting broke out on 3-14: 3+1+4
8 and the earthquake hit on 5-12: 5+1+2
8.

Finally, the day the earthquake struck marked 88 days to go before the Olympics open on Aug. 8.

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