Secrets in the Cellar: A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case That Shocked the World

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Joseph Fritzl Could Face Murder Charges". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. a b c Elizabeth Stewart and agencies (9 May 2008). "The urge to taste forbidden fruit was too strong". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2 September 2013 . Retrieved 12 May 2008. A call comes in to 911…. A teenage girl, Kirsten Fritzl, is seriously ill. An ambulance is sent to number 40 Ybbestrasse, the home of Josef Fritzl. At the local hospital, it had been a quiet morning.

Mathieu, von Rohr (6 May 2008). "Der Fall Amstetten: Wie Josef Fritzl die Behörden täuschte". Spiegel Online (in German). Archived from the original on 22 May 2016 . Retrieved 25 May 2016. Not surprisingly, Elisabeth had a different version from her father’s. She told police that her longest night started in august, 1984, when she was only 18. That’s when her father drugged her and dragged her to the cellar, chaining her to a wall. For the first four years of her incarceration, she lived in complete isolation. According to her own account the only visitor her own father, who raped her every few days.Sex slave dungeon: I knew Fritzl had raped his daughter, says man upstairs". The Evening Standard. London. 12 April 2012. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018 . Retrieved 4 April 2018. How to explain the arrival of the babies? His solution was simple. Elisabeth was a bad mother and had abandoned her children. Doctors suggested he should receive psychiatric care for the remainder of his life. Another victim is discovered

So far, Josef Fritzl is reported to have shown little remorse, even though he has confessed to his heinous crimes.Josef Fritzl was born on April 9, 1934, in Amstetten, Austria, a small town of 14,000 located halfway between Vienna and Salzburg. At the age of twenty-one, he married 17-year-old Rosemarie and together they had seven children: two sons and five daughters. Elisabeth Fritzl was born in 1966 when Josef was 31 years old. When Elisabeth turned 11 years old, Josef began sexually abusing her. Cellar incest girl 'will recover' ". BBC News. 11 June 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008 . Retrieved 12 June 2008. When Elisabeth got to the hospital and began to work with police and health care professionals to talk, there’s no reason for her to trust them.