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This man's secret shocked the world (MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: For over twenty years, a person in Austria kept a
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  Speaker 1: horrible secret, and in two thousand and eight that secret
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  Speaker 1: was inadvertently revealed and it shocked the world. But before
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  Speaker 1: On August twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four, an eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old girl named Elizabeth went missing. On the first day
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  Speaker 1: she was gone, her friends and family went out looking
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  Speaker 1: for her, but they couldn't find her. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: when she still hadn't shown up and no one had
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  Speaker 1: heard from her, her parents went to the local police
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  Speaker 1: station in the Austrian town of Amstetten, which is about
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  Speaker 1: an hour west of Vienna, and they reported her missing.
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  Speaker 1: The police launched an initial search of the town and
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding areas, but after several weeks they had found
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  Speaker 1: nothing that connected to Elizabeth and where she might have gone.
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  Speaker 1: A month after she had been reported missing, her parents
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  Speaker 1: came back to the police station, except this time they
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  Speaker 1: were carrying a note they say they received in the
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  Speaker 1: mail from their missing daughter. It was postmarked from a
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  Speaker 1: town that was about two hours west of Omstedten, and
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  Speaker 1: in this note, Elizabeth writes directly to her parents and
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  Speaker 1: she tells them that she had grown tired of living
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  Speaker 1: with them and she did not want them to come
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  Speaker 1: looking for her, and if she discovered they were looking
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  Speaker 1: for her, she would just flee the country. After the
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  Speaker 1: police read the note, they asked the parents if they
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  Speaker 1: thought it was real, if this was a legitimate letter
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  Speaker 1: from their daughter, and they said, yeah, they think it is.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that, her father, Joseph, suggested that maybe
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  Speaker 1: his daughter had run off to join a cult. That
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  Speaker 1: was something he thought she was getting in before her disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: After the parents left the police station. The police began
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  Speaker 1: conducting interviews with other family members and friends of Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: to see if it was possible that she might have
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  Speaker 1: run off to join a cult, and virtually everyone they
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  Speaker 1: spoke to said absolutely not. There is no way she
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  Speaker 1: ran off to join a cult. That just wasn't her.
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  Speaker 1: She was a quiet, reserved person and they had never
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  Speaker 1: heard her talking about a cult or anything that even
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  Speaker 1: resembled a cult. These answers left the police feeling very
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  Speaker 1: suspicious of the whole situation, and so they decided to
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  Speaker 1: look into the young woman's history to see if there
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  Speaker 1: was some other reason she might have run off. In
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  Speaker 1: their research, they discovered that Elizabeth was one of seven
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  Speaker 1: siblings that all lived together with their parents, Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: rose Marie. Joseph was a successful electrical engineer and real
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  Speaker 1: estate developer who was well liked and respected in town,
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  Speaker 1: and rose Marie had gotten married very young at the
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  Speaker 1: age of seventeen, and she had stayed home to take
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  Speaker 1: care of the kids. By all accounts, from the outside
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  Speaker 1: looking in, they were a very ordinary family. But as
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  Speaker 1: the police began to dig deeper and deeper into their history,
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  Speaker 1: they discovered their some big problems behind closed doors. Despite
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  Speaker 1: his friendly outward public appearance, Joseph was actually a ruthless
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  Speaker 1: authoritarian when he was home alone with his family at night.
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  Speaker 1: When he came home from work, his wife and his
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  Speaker 1: kids would immediately stop whatever they were doing and go
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  Speaker 1: silent in hopes they might avoid a beating. The only
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  Speaker 1: member of the family that seemed willing to stand up
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph was Elizabeth, and she and her father would
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  Speaker 1: frequently get into screaming fights, and then as punishment for
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  Speaker 1: these fights, Joseph would not only beat his daughter, he
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  Speaker 1: would also prevent her from seeing her friends for long
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  Speaker 1: periods of time, and he would go through her personal
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  Speaker 1: things like her diary. Their toxic relationship finally came to
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  Speaker 1: a head when Elizabeth finally ran away from home two
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  Speaker 1: years prior to her most recent disappearance. She made it
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  Speaker 1: all the way to Vienna before authorities caught up to
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  Speaker 1: her and brought her back home. Upon learning about this
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  Speaker 1: earlier disappearance, the police became convinced that the most recent
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  Speaker 1: disappearance was yet another attempt to escape her abusive and
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  Speaker 1: controlling father, and so the police decided that this was
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  Speaker 1: more of a family affair and they didn't push the
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  Speaker 1: investigation further. A year went by and neither the police
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  Speaker 1: nor her family heard anything from Elizabeth, and so her
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  Speaker 1: case was closed. But twenty four years later, a seemingly
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  Speaker 1: unconnected event broke her case wide open. On April nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, a nineteen year old named Kirsten
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  Speaker 1: was rushed to the hospital in Omstedten. Her skin was
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  Speaker 1: so pale it looked almost transparent. She was unconscious and
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  Speaker 1: suffering from seizures as well as lung and kidney failure.
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  Speaker 1: The doctors were able to stabilize her by putting her
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  Speaker 1: into a medically induced coma, but after running a litany
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  Speaker 1: of tests, they couldn't figure out what was causing her
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  Speaker 1: to have this medical condition, and so they were not
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  Speaker 1: able to treat her effectively. They assumed it had to
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  Speaker 1: be some sort of genetic condition, so they put her
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  Speaker 1: name into the medical database, but nothing came up. Her
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  Speaker 1: name wasn't listed, and so this was very perplexing because
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  Speaker 1: everybody's name was in this database. And so they took
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  Speaker 1: her name and they ran it in other medical databases,
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  Speaker 1: and her name didn't show up in any of them,
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  Speaker 1: and so totally confused by this girl who seemingly didn't exist,
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  Speaker 1: who was exhibiting symptoms of a CANDI none of the
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  Speaker 1: doctors had seen before. The doctors decided they had to
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  Speaker 1: speak to the guy. She showed up with, an older
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  Speaker 1: man who was out in the waiting room. When the
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  Speaker 1: doctors approached him, he said he was Kirsten's grandfather, but
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, he offered virtually no new information. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he was aggressive and rude and dismissive, and anytime they
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  Speaker 1: asked him questions he would answer as minimally as possible,
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  Speaker 1: And when the doctors really fixated on whether or not
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  Speaker 1: Kirsten had some underlying medical condition, he would not give
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  Speaker 1: them an answer. He would just dismiss it and say
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know anything. But it was the doctor's impression
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  Speaker 1: that he did know something, he just didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: tell them. And this behavior shocked them because they're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: the information he has could potentially save his granddaughter's life,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't he want to give it to us? And
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  Speaker 1: so after this disastrous interaction with the grandfather, the doctors
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  Speaker 1: decided to get the police involved. There were just too
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  Speaker 1: many red flags not to. When the police arrived, they
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  Speaker 1: were surprised to find out that this older man in
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  Speaker 1: the waiting room was none other than Joseph, the father
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  Speaker 1: of the still missing girl, Elizabeth. The police asked Joseph
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here, and he tells them that earlier
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  Speaker 1: that day he had opened his front door of his
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  Speaker 1: house and lying on his front step was a girl
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  Speaker 1: he had never seen before. It was Kirsten, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a note laying on her from his missing daughter Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: In the note, Elizabeth writes to Joseph directly and tells
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  Speaker 1: him this girl here is Kirsten and she is my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: So she's your granddaughter, and she's sick and I can't
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  Speaker 1: take care of her. Can you and mom take her
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital. While the police had many more questions
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  Speaker 1: about this totally bizarre turn of events, they realized that
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  Speaker 1: for the time being, they needed to focus their efforts
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  Speaker 1: on just getting Elizabeth to contact them, because they needed
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  Speaker 1: to know more about Kirsten's medical condition so they could
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  Speaker 1: save her life. And so the police went to the
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  Speaker 1: media and they put out a message on TV and
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  Speaker 1: on radio that was a direct appeal to Elizabeth that
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  Speaker 1: basically said, we need you to come forward as soon
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  Speaker 1: as possible and speak to us so we can help
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  Speaker 1: save your daughter's life. And all the messages worked, because
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  Speaker 1: a week later, Elizabeth, along with her father Joseph, showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the hospital where Kirsten was staying. When asked,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph did not get into detail about how he actually
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  Speaker 1: located Elizabeth. He simply said he found her and now
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  Speaker 1: she wants to see her daughter. The doctors noticed that Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 1: who was supposed to be in her early forties, looked
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  Speaker 1: like she could easily be in her sixties. Her hair
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  Speaker 1: was completely white, and her skin was so pale it
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  Speaker 1: was almost transparent, just like they had noticed about her
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  Speaker 1: daughter's skin. And so after they checked in, Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth made their way to Kirston's room and the pair
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  Speaker 1: went inside, and the doctors that were in there would
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  Speaker 1: say that Elizabeth looked terrified. She was hunched over and
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  Speaker 1: kind of slouched down, and she wouldn't make eye contact
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  Speaker 1: with any of the doctors. And as she was standing
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  Speaker 1: there looking at her terribly sick daughter, the doctors began
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  Speaker 1: asking her, do you know of any underlying health problems
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  Speaker 1: your daughter might have that might help us treat her
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  Speaker 1: more effectively? And Elizabeth was so scared she couldn't even talk,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point the questions became too much for her,
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  Speaker 1: and she just turned around and walked out into the
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  Speaker 1: hall with Joseph. And once they got out into the hall,
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  Speaker 1: the police were waiting for them. They had been tipped
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  Speaker 1: off as soon as the doctor saw Joseph and Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: come into the hospital. Elizabeth and Joseph were detained and
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  Speaker 1: brought to the police station, where they were put in
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  Speaker 1: two separate rooms to be interviewed. They first interviewed Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: and initially, just like in the hospital room, she was
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  Speaker 1: totally mute and didn't say anything. Then for five hours,
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  Speaker 1: the police grilled her with questions, where had she been
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  Speaker 1: for the last twenty four years, what happened to Kirston?
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  Speaker 1: Did she have something to do with her illness? And
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  Speaker 1: they kept reminding her throughout these five hours that if
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  Speaker 1: she never gave them any information, and God forbid, something
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  Speaker 1: were to happen to Kirston, she Elizabeth could be held
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  Speaker 1: criminally liable. And so eventually Elizabeth, in a very small,
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  Speaker 1: meek voice, said, Okay, I'll tell you the story, but
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  Speaker 1: you have to promise me I never have to see
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  Speaker 1: my father Joseph. Ever again, when she said this to
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  Speaker 1: the police, they could tell she was so scared that
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  Speaker 1: they said, okay, fine, you never have to see your
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  Speaker 1: father again. We'll make sure of it. Now, tell us
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  Speaker 1: what happened after that, Elizabeth clutched her hands, she took
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath, and then she told them one of
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  Speaker 1: the most horrifying stories they had ever heard, a story
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  Speaker 1: so disturbing that it would make headlines all around the
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  Speaker 1: world for months. It all began twenty four years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: on August twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four, the day Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: went missing. On that day, she told police she was
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  Speaker 1: at her family home in Omstetten when her father asked
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  Speaker 1: her to come into the basement to help him with something.
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  Speaker 1: Her father, for the last several years had been constructing
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  Speaker 1: a bomb shelter in their basement, and he was now
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  Speaker 1: only one door installation away from being done. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: in the early nineteen eighties, the Cold War was still
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  Speaker 1: very much on and so building bomb shelters inside of
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  Speaker 1: your home was a relatively common thing. So Elizabeth goes
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  Speaker 1: down into her basement and she sees her father standing
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  Speaker 1: in front of this empty frame where the store is
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  Speaker 1: going to go. That leads into the shelter, and so
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  Speaker 1: she walks over and steps through the frame into the shelter.
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  Speaker 1: She turns around and her father hands her this door,
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  Speaker 1: and she holds it in the middle of the frame
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  Speaker 1: while he secures it to the hinges, and then once
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  Speaker 1: it's securely in place, suddenly he swings open the door,
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  Speaker 1: knocking Elizabeth backwards farther into the shelter, and before she
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  Speaker 1: could stand back up again, her father had run inside
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  Speaker 1: and pushed an ether soap tow onto her face, knocking
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  Speaker 1: her unconscious. When she came to again, she found herself
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  Speaker 1: chained up in the very back room of the shelter.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out this bomb shelter that Joseph had
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  Speaker 1: spent six years constructing was not actually a bomb shelter.
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  Speaker 1: It was a prison he was building specifically for Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: To get into this shelter, you would have to go
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  Speaker 1: down the steps into the basement, which looked like a
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  Speaker 1: typical unfinished basement, and then on the far wall you
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  Speaker 1: would see these shelves that had things like paint cans
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  Speaker 1: and screwdrivers and other tools you would expect to find
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  Speaker 1: in the basement. But if you walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: left side of the shelving there was a lock on
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  Speaker 1: the back of it that if you undid it, the
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  Speaker 1: shelf itself would swing out like a door, and then
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  Speaker 1: behind it on the wall would reveal a three foot
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  Speaker 1: tall secret door. This secret door was also locked, but
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  Speaker 1: not by a key lock. Instead, it was locked by
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  Speaker 1: a keypad lock that only Joseph had the code to,
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  Speaker 1: and since Joseph was an electrical engineer, he took great
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  Speaker 1: care in ensuring this lock never could be tampered with
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  Speaker 1: or destroyed. That thing was good going to stay locked
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  Speaker 1: unless he unlocked it. When Joseph entered his code into
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  Speaker 1: the keypad, he could open that secret door and it
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  Speaker 1: would reveal this secret underground prison that was basically a
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  Speaker 1: winding maze of small rooms with ceilings that were too
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  Speaker 1: short to be able to stand up all the way in.
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  Speaker 1: If you walked through the secret door and actually entered
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  Speaker 1: into this prison, you would start by entering this soundproof,
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  Speaker 1: narrow hallway that went on for several feet before it
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  Speaker 1: entered into this very small bathroom area where the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: was unbelievably cramped and there was no doors. There was
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  Speaker 1: no privacy. And then if you didn't stop in the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and you just kept walking straight through that first hallway,
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  Speaker 1: you would reach another hallway that was totally soundproofd and narrow,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of that hallway it would feed
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  Speaker 1: into a very small bedroom that was so small that
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  Speaker 1: it barely contained the one bed that was inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then off to the right side of that bedroom
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  Speaker 1: was another door that led into a similarly sized bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: All of the walls of this underground prison were made
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  Speaker 1: of thick, reinforced concrete that, combined with the soundproofing that
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had installed throughout the entire prison, meant no one
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  Speaker 1: could hear Elizabeth's cries for help. Also, the inside of
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  Speaker 1: the prison was heavily monitored by Joseph's security system, so
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  Speaker 1: truly Elizabeth had absolutely no privacy. She was completely trapped,
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  Speaker 1: and the only way she was getting out was if
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  Speaker 1: her father freed her. For the first five years of
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  Speaker 1: her imprisonment, she remained in that dungeon all alone. Her
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  Speaker 1: only connection to the outside world was her father, who
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  Speaker 1: would come down almost every night to drop off basic
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  Speaker 1: supplies and to assault her. As far as Joseph's wife
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  Speaker 1: and his other kids knew he was just spending all
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  Speaker 1: this time in the basement because that's where he worked
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  Speaker 1: when he was not in the office. In nineteen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth became pregnant with her father's child. She was terrified
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  Speaker 1: of the pregnancy and begged Joseph to at least allow
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  Speaker 1: her to deliver the child in a hospital, but he refused.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't willing to potentially expose himself for what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing, and so he gave her a book about childbirth,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave her a pair of scissors to cut
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  Speaker 1: the umbilical cord, and he said good luck, and so
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  Speaker 1: on August thirtieth, Elizabeth delivered her daughter alone in that basement.
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  Speaker 1: Following the birth of Kirsten, Elizabeth would deliver six more
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  Speaker 1: of her father's children, all the same way. She delivered
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  Speaker 1: Kirston alone and in the basement. In nineteen ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: one of Elizabeth's newborn babies, Michael, was born with respiratory issues,
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  Speaker 1: and so Elizabeth pleaded with Joseph to take the baby
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital to get help, but Joseph refused. He
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  Speaker 1: was worried he would be exposed, and so three days
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  Speaker 1: after his birth, the baby died in Elizabeth's arms, and
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  Speaker 1: after the baby died, Joseph just took the body, threw
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  Speaker 1: it in a stove, and incinerated it like it was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: In the late nineties, the six living children down in
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  Speaker 1: the basement were getting bigger and noisier, and so Joseph
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  Speaker 1: came up with a plan in order to reduce the
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  Speaker 1: chances of them being discovered. And so one day Joseph
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  Speaker 1: went downstairs into the basement and he took one of
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth's youngest children away from her, and then he threatened
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  Speaker 1: her and the rest of the kids down there that
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  Speaker 1: if they tried to fight back, or if they ever
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  Speaker 1: tried to escape, he would seal off the basement and
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  Speaker 1: he would gasp them to death. Previously, Joseph had punished
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  Speaker 1: to the entire family by turning off their power and
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  Speaker 1: cutting off their food and water supply for multiple days
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  Speaker 1: at a time, so they knew he was willing and
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  Speaker 1: able to hurt them if he wanted to. And so
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  Speaker 1: when he took this young child away from Elizabeth, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't put up a light, and the baby disappeared upstairs,
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  Speaker 1: and when Joseph's wife, Rosemary, came home, he put on
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  Speaker 1: this elaborate charade about how he had discovered this baby
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  Speaker 1: on the front step, and that there was a note
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  Speaker 1: attached to the baby and it was from Elizabeth, their
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  Speaker 1: missing daughter, and this child was apparently Elizabeth, and she
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  Speaker 1: couldn't take care of it, and she was leaving it
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  Speaker 1: here for he and Rosemary to raise it as their own.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph had actually made Elizabeth write out this note
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  Speaker 1: and sign it to add credibility to this story. And
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  Speaker 1: so when Elizabeth's mother, Rosemary saw this note and heard
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's story, she believed it. Over the next several years,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph would steal two more of Elizabeth's young children and
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  Speaker 1: then stage having found them on his front step with
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  Speaker 1: a note from Elizabeth, and with each discovered child, Rosemary
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  Speaker 1: amazingly never asked any questions. She just took these kids
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  Speaker 1: in and she and Joseph raised them as their own. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: when these three kids got old enough, Joseph would tell
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  Speaker 1: them that their real mother, Elizabeth, was a low life
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  Speaker 1: and she had abandoned them and she didn't care about them,
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  Speaker 1: when in reality, their mother and their other three siblings
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  Speaker 1: they didn't know existed, were locked up in the basement
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  Speaker 1: below their feet. Initially, investigators believed all of these children
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had with Elizabeth were all mistakes, but it would
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  Speaker 1: turn out that was not the case. Joseph would admit
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  Speaker 1: that the reason he initially imprisoned Elizabeth was because he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to completely control her. He wanted to own her,
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  Speaker 1: and so he decided that if he could just impregnate
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  Speaker 1: her as many times as possible and make her have
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  Speaker 1: all these kids, even if she eventually got out of
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  Speaker 1: the prison, no man would want her. She had too
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: many kids, and so she would remain his property, and
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: so over the entire time Elizabeth was imprisoned over two decades,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the nightly assaults by her father never slowed down. They
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  Speaker 1: happened thousands of times. But despite the horrific and tragic
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  Speaker 1: circumstances surrounding each of her children's earths, she loved her
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  Speaker 1: children unconditionally and would spend all of her time doing
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  Speaker 1: her best to educate them and care for them. The
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  Speaker 1: three children that remained with her that were not taken
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  Speaker 1: by Joseph, she taught them how to read and how
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  Speaker 1: to write, and when Joseph had given them a TV
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: in a radio to keep down there, she would use
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: those two items to try to teach her kids about
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  Speaker 1: the outside world, and she would promise them that someday
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: they would get to experience it for real. Finally, in
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, so twenty four years after Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: had originally been captured by her father, her oldest daughter, Kirsten,
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  Speaker 1: becomes extremely sick, and Elizabeth convinces Joseph to bring her
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital, and one week later, Joseph's heinous crimes
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  Speaker 1: were revealed to the world. Once police found out about
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  Speaker 1: the secret prison, they rushed to the house and they
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: went downstairs, and they used the codes and instructions that
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had given them, and they went inside and they
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: freed the last two remaining children that were still there.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: When they brought them to the hospital, the youngest of
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: these two kids, who was five years old, he didn't
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: speak the entire time, pressed his face up against the
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  Speaker 1: glass of the car window, and he stared out in
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  Speaker 1: utter amazement because to that point in his life he
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: had never actually seen the world. After those two kids
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: were brought to the hospital, they were reunited with the
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  Speaker 1: other three siblings that had been taken away from them
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: years ago to live upstairs with Joseph and Rosemary, and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: apparently the reunion was very emotional and the kids were
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: extremely happy to see each other. And then a couple
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: days later, Kirsten would come out of her coma and
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  Speaker 1: she too would have a chance to be reunited with
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  Speaker 1: all of her siblings. Kirsten would ultimately make a full recovery.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It would turn out she was suffering from a severe
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: vitamin D deficiency, and vitamin D you primarily get from
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the sun, and in her nineteen years of life, she
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: had never been in the sun. As soon as the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: story broke about this family being trapped inside of this basement,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: everybody had the same question, how could Elizabeth's mother, Rosemary
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: not know what was going on in her basement? But
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the police had the same suspicions about rose Marie, and
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: they investigated her and they ruled her out, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: she's not at Faultyer, She's a victim too. She had
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: been so badly abused by Joseph that she lived in
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: fear of him, and so when he forbade her from
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  Speaker 1: ever going anywhere near the basement, she listened and if
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  Speaker 1: she ever heard any strange sounds coming out of the basement,
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  Speaker 1: or if she ever suspected any strange behavior by Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: she kept those thoughts to herself because she was scared.
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  Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that in those twenty four years
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that Elizabeth and her kids were trapped in the basement,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Joseph had over one hundred people rent out a room
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: inside of his house that was right over the basement,
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  Speaker 1: and in those twenty four years, not one of those
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: tenants ever said Joseph was acting strangely or complained about
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: strange noises coming from the basement. However, one tenant who
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was there for a four year stretch had a dog
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: with him the whole time, and every night, the dog,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: at some point would suddenly stand up, its ears would
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: pick up, and it would start growling like it heard
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: or it saw something, And at first this tenant would
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: try to see what the dog had seen or heard,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: but after never seeing anything, he would always just dismiss
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the dog when it did this at night. Later on,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: when that tenant figured out what was actually happening inside
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the house while he was there, he realized his dog
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: was most likely hearing the faint sounds of the family
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that was imprisoned right below him. After a year of
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: therapy and rehabilitation, Elizabeth and her six kids were given
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  Speaker 1: new identities by the Austrian government and they were sent
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: off to a secret location to start their lives over.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: As such, there's virtually no information about how they're doing today. However,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: anonymous sources have come forward and said the family has
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: successfully reintegrated into society and they are all leading relatively
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: normal and happy lives. As for Joseph, he was quickly
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: given a life sentence and today he is one of
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the most hated people in his prison due to the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: nature of his crimes. He is so hated that in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, when he was out in general population, he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: was attacked by other inmates and had several of his
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: teeth knocked out. And so now prison officials are worried
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: if they leave him in general population he'll be killed,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and so he spends virtually all his time in solitary confinement.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: He will be eligible for parole in t twenty twenty four,
• 20:00
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