Say Cheese, Fritzl!

Anyone else as obsessed with this story as I am? This article in the Daily Mail by Julie Moult is the most comprehensive I've read yet. Here are some choice quotes, for your, well, I won't say amusement, because this is a sad story, so how about, for our collective perverse curiosity:

For the first nine months of her 24 years in captivity, she was also tethered with a 5ft dog leash around her neck to prevent her escape

For the first nine years, he imprisoned her in a grim 15ft by 15ft box room which had a makeshift toilet in one corner. She told police that Fritzl forced her to help drag a 600lb concrete and steel door into position to seal the dungeon. It was only when it was in place that she discovered she had helped to build her own prison.

Fritzl finally agreed to expand the cellar - again with Elisabeth's help - after she had given birth to two of his children. He forced her to dig out the chambers by hand, working for hours at a time. The process took nearly a decade.

Austrian police said the air inside the inner chambers was so stifling they have been forced to drill holes to allow investigators to breathe.

Fritzl is said to be obsessively watching TV reports about the incarceration and abuse of his daughter from his isolated cell.

In police interviews, Elisabeth said that at the start she had fought against the imprisonment, banging on the walls and screaming until she could no longer speak, but no one had come as the weeks turned into months, and the years into decades.