House of Horrors

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Nige Cawthorne. House of Horrors

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A LIVING TOMB

HEART OF DARKNESS

THE APPLE OF HIS EYE

INTO THE ABYSS

WHO KNEW?

A FAMILY TORN APART

HOLIDAYS FROM HELL

INTO THE LIGHT

‘IS GOD UP THERE?’

A FAMILY REUNITED

THE MONSTER SPEAKS

MOTHER’S DAY

BACK IN THE CELLAR

THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

EPILOGUE

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1 A Living Tomb

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Fritzl said that his favourite daughter was Elisabeth, the fourth of his seven children with Rosemarie, but that did not mean that she was given an easy time. Because she was pretty, it appears that he was harder on her than the others and beat her mercilessly. Fritzl had no time for spoiling children. At home, in this traditional Austrian family, father ruled the roost – though, even in the eyes of others who shared his background, he was inordinately strict.

‘For me, I always had the impression that Sepp was an intelligent and successful man,’ said Leopold Stütz, deputy mayor of Lasberg, a town 30 miles from Amstetten. Stütz was a close friend of the Fritzls and even went on joint holidays with the family. ‘He often talked about his perfect family. He was very strict with his children, a strict but fair father, I would say. It was enough for him to snap his fingers and the youngsters would be in bed. He always stressed that, for him, education and career were the most important things.’

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