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Fritzl's Wife Visits Incest Dungeon

Posted Jun 16, 08 10:34 CDT in World,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Rosemarie Fritzl visited her husband's incest dungeon for the first time last week, the Guardian reports. She received police permission to visit the house—still a crime scene—where Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years, spending about 40 minutes there and emerging with two suitcases and a large bag said to be full of clothes and toys for Elisabeth and her children.

A police spokesman said it was the first time any member of the Fritzl family had returned to the house, which is likely to be destroyed. The 69-year-old Rosemarie Fritzl has said that she never knew of her husband's sinister double life, and police say that they have no reason to doubt her, the Guardian notes.

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A man looks at a poster painted by victims of the Fritzl incest crime at the main square in Amstetten, Austria, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
A police helicopter flies over the house in Amstetten, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell.   (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
Arerial view of the building in Amstetten, Austria, center right, with green rooftop garden, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell.   (AP Photo/inflight gmbh)
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