"I constantly knew, during the entire 24 years, that what I did was not right, that I must have been crazy to do something like this," the magazine quoted Fritzl as saying to his lawyer, Rudolf Mayer. "With each week that I held my daughter captive," he said, "my situation got crazier."...
"When I went into the bunker, I brought flowers for my daughter, and books and stuffed animals for the children," he said. They watched adventure movies while the daughter, Elisabeth, cooked their favorite meals. "And then we all sat around the table and ate together," he said....
In his account, Fritzl describes himself as the product of Nazi-era Austria, with its mania for order and discipline, as well as of a domineering mother, whom he loved desperately. She did not sexually abuse him as a child, he said, though he admitted to nourishing fantasies about her....
But as Elisabeth grew into a teenager, Fritzl said, he became alarmed when she began smoking, drinking and staying out all night. "I tried to get her out of that swamp," he said, by arranging work for her as a waitress. He also began digging the underground bunker that became her prison in 1984, when Fritzl drugged her and dragged her downstairs.
"I had to create a place in which I could keep Elisabeth away from the outside world, by force if I had to," he said.
Fritzl, however, was unable to keep himself away from his daughter, who he said reminded him of his mother. "My drive to have sex with Elisabeth grew stronger and stronger," he said, describing it as an addiction. "I knew that Elisabeth didn't want me to do what I did to her. I knew that I was hurting her."
- Austria's dungeon man: 'I must have been crazy'
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It took him 24 years to figure out that he was crazy? Really. My guess is that if he had made mention of what he was doing to anyone on the planet he would have been told that he was crazy in an instant. The crazy person is the wife/mother, "where's my daughter?" never occurred to her. Brilliant blog.
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