Sad & sick news story of the day: Woman Says Father Put Her in Dungeon

[DeltAlum]

"Hans-Heinz Lenze, a senior local official, said the suspect's wife apparently had "no idea" of what went on and was devastated."


Sorry, but what world was this woman living in?

I suppose it's possible she never went to the basement, never missed the food the captives were fed, etc. etc.

But I find it difficult to believe.

The whole story is sad.

[Educatingblue]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

"Hans-Heinz Lenze, a senior local official, said the suspect's wife apparently had "no idea" of what went on and was devastated."


Sorry, but what world was this woman living in?

I suppose it's possible she never went to the basement, never missed the food the captives were fed, etc. etc.

But I find it difficult to believe.

The whole story is sad.

Yeah she is definitely suspicious! This sounds like one of the numerous sexual abuse cases where the mothers turn a blind eye because they would rather know where the husbands were having sex and could control the environment.

[Munchkin03]

Gross gross gross.

I believe there's a special place in hell for women who facilitate--either by letting it go on unchecked, or by turning a blind eye--the brutalization of their own daughters. I hardly think this woman was completely oblivious to what was going on.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Though unlikely, I think it's possible the wife may not have known her husband was doing this. They lived in an apartment complex, and the dungeon was the apartment complex basement...not exactly the type of place people living in apartments hang out in.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Though unlikely, I think it's possible the wife may not have known her husband was doing this. They lived in an apartment complex, and the dungeon was the apartment complex basement...not exactly the type of place people living in apartments hang out in.

For twenty-four years?

As I said, I suppose it's possible, but that still doesn't account for food and money spent to sustain the captives.

Seems like she would have to be pretty dense.

[jon1856]

Chilling Details Emerge in Incest Case
AMSTETTEN, Austria (May 4) - The sister-in-law of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a dingy dungeon and fathering seven children with her said he treated his family like a "tyrant."
In an exclusive television interview with The Associated Press, a woman who identified herself as Josef Fritzl's sister-in-law provided intimate details of the oppression inside the Fritzl home.

The woman, who has pictures of herself with the family, asked only to be identified as Christine R. to avoid public attention and throngs of journalists seeking interviews.

She said Fritzl's daughter Elisabeth ran away from home as a 17-year-old, about six months before police say she was locked into the soundproofed, windowless cellar beneath their apartment.

Christine R. also painted the most complete picture to date of her sister Rosemarie: a woman who against all odds fought to hold together a troubled family, yet never suspected that the cause of so much pain was in her own home.
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