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...Trapp Groupies. If you're still wondering how to solve a problem like Maria, Gutsy Women Travel is an offering an eight-day tour, starting in Salzburg on June 29, called Allure of Austria: Salzburg & Vienna. Visit Salzburg where the Sound of Music was filmed, learn to cook apple strudel and how to dance a proper Viennese waltz, and have dinner in a Viennese palace followed by a Mozart and Strauss concert. If you book with a friend (use the promo code GWTBAF200) by April 15, you'll each save $200 off the regular price of $1,899 per person...
...told the court, his voice trembling. "My mother didn't want me. I was beaten." His attorney, Rudolf Mayer, added that a "man who put so much effort into keeping two families cannot be called a monster," urging the jurors to "keep emotion out of this." (See pictures of Austria's house of horrors...
...Mayor Stadler's efforts to use the occasion to promote tourism in Sankt Poelten may be emblematic of Austria's inclination to evade the uncomfortable questions raised by the Fritzl case. It came to light just two years after Austrians learned of a surprisingly similar case: that of Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped at age 10 by another engineer and kept in a purpose-built cellar prison for eight years before she escaped in 2006. The form of incarceration wasn't the only thing the two cases had in common: not a single social worker, police officer or government official has taken...
...charge of arson related to insurance fraud in the 1980s.) Yet when Fritzl told police that his daughter had joined a cult, they apparently believed him, despite the fact that he was a convicted sex offender and that there was no evidence that such a cult was operating in Austria. Fritzl also claimed that the three children he and his wife were raising in the house above the basement prison had been dumped on his doorstep by his runaway daughter - an unlikely account that also went unquestioned...
...Many officials, all the way up to the Chancellor, have insisted that the Fritzl case is an isolated affair, although one of the chief investigators in the case has expressed a belief that there may be other cellars in Austria where captives are being held...