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Austrian criminal, insane or excuse?
5/5/2008 at 9:54 AM
Austrian police: Suspect's dungeon plans date back to 1978
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Wpg Sun, May 5)
Jovial among friends, tyrant at home
Woman held captive by father for 24 years
AMSTETTEN, Austria - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old.
Investigators also say a total of eight doors secured the underground windowless rooms where Josef Fritzl allegedly imprisoned his daughter at 18 and fathered seven children with her.
Prosecutors told reporters today in a town west of Vienna that they will have their first meeting with Fritzl this Wednesday or Thursday.
The 73-year-old suspect has not yet been charged, but his lawyer has said he is preparing an insanity defence.
Insane doesn't describe it, IMO.