elisabeth a lift at night and for her to leave the baby on the door step at a time when she wouldn t have been seen. fritzl s closest neighbors bought his story, too. translator: people said that it was irresponsible. what a bad mother elisabeth was just to leave the children on the doorstep. frau fritzl already had seven children and now she has to bring up grandchildren, as well. terrible. incredibly, over the 24 years elisabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting rooms in the fritzl house right above elisabeth s prison. none suspected. translator: in hindsight, you can always claim that you heard something, like knocking, but that simply isn t the case. i can t recall ever hearing knocking or anything at all. and if i heard something, what could i have done? it could have been children playing. you don t know. after the first child was abandoned in 1992, social services paid some 20 visits to the house.
been difficult at all for a member of the sect to give elisabeth a lift at night and for her to leave the baby on the door step at a time when she wouldn t have been seen. fritzl s closest neighbors bought his story, too. translator: people said that it was irresponsible. what a bad mother elisabeth was just to leave the children on the doorstep. frau fritzl already had seven children and now she has to bring up grandchildren, as well. terrible. incredibly, over the 24 years elisabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting rooms in the fritzl house right above elisabeth s prison. none suspected. translator: in hindsight, you can always claim that you heard something, like knocking, but that simply isn t the case. i can t recall ever hearing knocking or anything at all. and if i heard something, what could i have done? it could have been children playing. you don t know. after the first child was abandoned in 1992, social
mark perry covered the case for a local newspaper. 1994, the first story, just after christmas. the second time she put the baby in front of the door of her grandfather. how bad must she be? then mr. fritzl quoting here, vanished since 1984. we think she s in the hands of some religious group. and, in fact, she was in his hands. even austrian social services bought in to fritzl s complex web of deception. translator: if, as people assumed and her father kept claiming, elisabeth was living with a sect, it wouldn t have been difficult at all for a member of the sect to give elisabeth a lift at night and for her to leave the baby on the door step at a time when she wouldn t have been seen.