The Investigation Begins
Because authorities and hospital staff were already skeptical of the situation, upon Elisabeth’s arrival, Dr. Reiter informed the authorities. From what they could gather, it seemed that Elisabeth and Kerstin were being held against their will. They could never have believed the kind of real terror the girls were living in. They took Elisabeth away for questioning and she told the police that if they could ensure the safety of all her children and that she would never have to see her father ever again, she would tell them about the horror of what was really going on. Her very first account of what she endured all those years had been more than three pages long.
