House of Horrors. Nige Cawthorne
days a week. That’s when I go swimming, play tennis or even football. I like listening to music and daydreaming. But if life consists just of dreams – well, I don’t really know about that.’
But, in a dungeon, all you can do is dream.
She called the friends with whom she went clubbing her ‘crew’ and said, ‘They are really cool.’ She urged her friend to ‘keep your promise that you’ll visit me as soon as you get your driving licence,’ adding, ‘I have six siblings, four of them are girls and two brothers. My brother H is 21 years young. He is the one I like most.’
She signed off as ‘S’ and told her friend, ‘Stay safe, keep being a good boy. Don’t drink too much.’
In the third letter, posted from Amstetten on 3 August, less than a month before she disappeared below ground, Elisabeth revealed her plans to move in with one of her sisters. She told E she was ‘living fully in stress’ due to an upcoming exam, but she had been to a fair with work pals, saying, ‘It was something.’ And she talked again of leaving home. ‘As soon as I’ve moved, I will send you my new address,’ she said. ‘You could come and visit me with your friends if you want to.’ She added, chillingly, ‘Cross your fingers for me – when you get this letter, it will all be over.’
But her impending ordeal was just about to begin.
In all other respects, her tone was blithe and even apologetic for not writing a longer note. ‘Now I’m very tired because it’s very late and also the evening movie (Duel) is so exciting. I can’t write while watching this.’ She concluded, ‘Bye, see you soon, S. Write back soon and don’t get drunk for no reason!’
In the letters, Elisabeth Fritzl seems a completely normal, happy girl – totally unaware of the terrible fate that hung over her.
Her boyfriend Andreas Kruzik had been writing, too. ‘I wrote two letters to Elisabeth, telling her how much I loved her,’ he said, ‘and I was heartbroken when she did not write back.’
Unaware of the evil machinations of her depraved father, Andreas naturally jumped to the conclusion that he had been dumped. ‘I thought she had gone off me, despite the fact that we had talked about the future and getting married,’ he said. ‘She had spoken of running away with me and getting married, but he must have known of her plans.’
But he never saw or heard from her again and was horrified to learn of her fate through the media, more than two decades later. He now fears it was his secret love letters that led to her incarceration. ‘Now I fear he must have flown into a rage,’ said Andreas. ‘It’s horrific he would act like that.’
When Elisabeth completed her training programme in the late summer of 1984, she figured that she would soon be free. Her bags were packed, she had money saved and a job prospect in Linz. It seemed she was on the verge of getting away from her abusive father. The long nightmare of her home life finally seemed to be over and freedom, love and happiness beckoned, but that life was to be snatched away and she would enter a longer and darker nightmare.
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