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...report to prosecutors suggest that personal, rather than societal, causes were behind Fritzl's crimes. Fritzl's actions, the report said, can be partly attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. "His story describes an unpredictable atmosphere with humiliating and unprovoked attacks from his mother," psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner wrote in her 130-page report. "His childhood made him susceptible to an emotional handicap; [he felt] the need to possess an entire human being." (See photos of Austria's house of horrors...
...there is no equal protection for voters, as the Supreme Court ruling showed, why vote? A biased court will decide for you. Is this the democracy the U.S. wants to export to other countries? ADELHEID MEYS The Hague, the Netherlands...
This recent police performance is a welcome contrast to the occasional bungling previously displayed by terrorist hunters. In September a Bundestag committee disclosed that antiterrorist police had allowed Stoll and the other RAF suspects, Adelheid Schulz and Christian Klar, to get away after keeping them under close surveillance for two weeks. The cops had even photographed the trio boarding a rented helicopter to make aerial reconnaissance surveys of the homes of potential victims. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered a shake-up of the antiterrorist force...
Three of the most wanted suspects-Willy Peter Stoll, 28, Adelheid Schulz, 23, and Christian Klar, 26-had eluded the most intensive man hunt in West German history. They stayed just a tantalizing step ahead of the law, thanks largely to some of the worst police work the world has witnessed since the Keystone Kops...
Rieger discussed her suspicions with her fiancé, who informed the authorities. She had a piece of clinching evidence: on the right cheek of a squeaky-voiced member of the film crew was a telltale double birthmark, positively identifying her as Adelheid Schulz. Acting on the tip, police mounted an elaborate surveillance, observing-and even photographing-the suspects as they boarded Rieger's helicopter for subsequent flights. Handwriting experts examined the helicopter rental contract and concluded that it had been signed by Klar. But in a fit of inexplicable indecision, the cops failed to close in and make...