Austrian police probe deeper into Fritzl incest case, victims undergoing therapy
Josef Fritzl, 73, the Austrian man who kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years is refusing to answer further questions in custody even as the captive daughter and children are undergoing therapy to recuperate.
The Austrian police in-charge said that Fritzl had signed the statement admitting imprisoning his daughter and fathering her seven children as well as disposing off the body of a still-born baby in an incinerator, but refuses to give details or explain his actions even as the detectives try to analyze his motive or reason for such a 'barbaric' act.
Fritzl faces up to 15 years in prison if he is convicted of raping his daughter among the other offences.
Police authorities are under pressure as claims are being made that that laxity on their part prolonged the captive daughter's imprisonment and misery. The ongoing investigation is being increasingly questioned by the Austrian public who has been shocked by the 'appalling' case.
They have discounted the theory that he had an accomplice. Franz Polzer, the police chief of Lower Austria, emphasized that Fritzl had "acted alone in imprisoning his family in the cramped cellar putting."
Questions were raised about how the 300kg concrete door to the hidden cellar could be installed by one man, or as to how the family survived when he was away.
The Police have found out that the door was part of an old bunker and was always there. They also claim that "Fritzl planned his crime too meticulously to have been caught any earlier." Further questioning with the eye-witnesses who saw Fritzl carting food supplies into the cellar revealed they just thought that he was storing it without any hint of what was actually going on.
Police officials also added that the members of the Fritzl family will be offered the chance to adopt new identities in an effort to help them lead normal lives.
They have confirmed that they are interrogating Fritzl for possible links to the unsolved murder of a young woman committed more than 20 years ago in 1986.
The body of Martina Posch, 17, was found wrapped in two green plastic covers in the Mondsee lake near Salzburg. She was believed to have been raped.
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