One can only imagine the pain the family of murdered 16-year-old jogger Franziska Blöchliger are going through, but that doesn’t mean father Florian is hiding away from the public eye.

Yesterday brought the news that three men had been taken into custody for the murder, as well as a few details about the phone call Florian received from his daughter’s phone. Now he has again spoken of that ordeal, revealing some previously unknown details. Here’s TimesLive:

Florian Blöchliger said that a child screaming in the background is all that he could hear on the other end of a phone call that lasted about 30 seconds.

His father also called him to say that he had received a call from Franziska’s phone and that he had heard the same thing…

“While driving in the middle of the forest‚ all of a sudden the cellphone called me‚ it was my daughter in the back (of the caller ID) and I saw it was Franziska calling so it was a relief that my daughter was here.

“And I shouted ‘Where are you!?’ only to hear children’s noises in the back‚ like a screaming child – not my child – somebody else’s child. And after about 30 seconds the phone was put down‚” he said.

“I hysterically got even crazier so I went back immediately and told the police what happened. My father called me and said Franziska’s phone also phoned him and the same thing happened to him as well‚” he said.

Sixteen-year-old Franziska’s body was found about 25 minutes after the phone calls and the iPhone was later tracked to the nearby suburb of Westlake where police recovered it on Tuesday night.

With the help of the local community and some businesses the family have upped the reward for information leading to the arrest of her murderers to R100 000.

[source:timeslive]