Re: Austrian sex captor appears in court

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:05:18 -0700 (PDT), johns <johns321@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've speculated that that's why he split up the children.  Since he had three
of them upstairs in the 'normal world,' he could have been telling Elisabeth
that if she didn't keep the children in the basement in line, he'd harm the
others.

Makes sense. Except ... the boys. They would have been able
to overpower him when he came down to "visit" his daughter.

You did read the part where if they'd have done that, they never
would've been able to get out? He had the thing closed with a code
only he knew. If they took him out, they wouldn't have been able to
open the door to get out anyway. They'd have all starved to death.

I'm pretty sure that's a powerful motivator for leaving gramps alone.
.

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