Tenants could hear Elisabeth Fritzl’s cries, claims book
May 19th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, May 19 (ANI): Austrian dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl’s cries for help during her 24-year ordeal could be “very audible” to those living above, reveals a new book.
Elisabeth, now 42, was held captive and sexually abused by her father, Josef, for 24 years in a rat-infested dungeon.
It has been famously believed that the dungeon in Amstetten, where Josef kept his daughter and three of the seven children he fathered with her, must have been soundproofed for the captives to have gone unnoticed, The Times reported.
However, according to The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth, by Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski, a sound engineer who tested the cellar’s acoustics found that the reality was quite the opposite, reports News.com.au.
As per a report by Peter Kopecky knocking and cries for help from the cellar would have been “very audible” to tenants living there, in flats rented out by Fritzl.
“The noises that the tenants thought they had heard coming from the cellar beneath them had been real: the thumping, the moaning, the strange clanking noises emanating from deep underground,” the book states according to The Times.
“But nobody had thought to investigate,” it added.
Fritzl was jailed for life after admitting raping Elisabeth more than 3,000 times and fathering seven children - one of whom he murdered hours after it was born. (ANI)
- Fury over promotion of 'dungeon dad' Fritzl's book as Father's Day gift - Jun 19, 2009
- Josef Fritzl's house to be torn down - Jan 23, 2011
- Fritzl's secret dungeon to be welded shut after becoming teen party venue - Feb 15, 2011
- Fritzl planned to kill his dungeon family in acid bath - Nov 11, 2010
- Fritzl to get extra hour in bed and roast chicken dinner on Christmas Day - Dec 22, 2010
- Dungeon dads lodger still smells of burnt baby - Mar 23, 2009
- Dungeon dad's Austrian home to be pulled down after becoming tourist attraction - May 02, 2011
- Fritzl's house of horror to be torn down in 2011 - Dec 22, 2010
- Josef Fritzl's incest dungeon may be filled with concrete - Dec 30, 2009
- Dungeon dad Fritzl 'planned to kill family in acid bath' to hide crimes - Nov 11, 2010
- Germany's 'Josef Fritzl' jailed for 14-and-a-half years - Mar 23, 2011
- Elisabeth Fritzl was raped 3,000 times - Mar 17, 2009
- Incestuous Austrian expresses love for wife - Nov 02, 2010
- Josef Fritzl's 'dungeon' house to be demolished - Nov 09, 2010
- Fritzl trial: Elisabeth was forced to deliver babies in rat-infested dungeon - Mar 17, 2009
Tags: 24 years, acoustics, amstetten, bojan, book states, captives, crimes, elisabeth, marsh, melbourne, news com au, ordeal, sound engineer, stefanie, truth