Fritzl's Plan Unraveled
The doctors were baffled, and they tried to get Kerstin to explain anything she could remember while at the same time appealing to the public for information about her or her missing mother. Of course, no one came forward because nobody in the outside world even knew she existed until now.
With this, the closed case of Elisabeth Fritzl was reopened, and the police consulted religious leaders in the area, who maintained there was no evidence of the type of cult that Elisabeth's letters described. Aware that his decades-long plan was unraveling, Fritzl created a new letter explaining that life in the cult was tough and that she and her two children would soon return home.
