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  • May 2008

    • Court Orders Fritzl Held 1 More Month

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 9, 08 7:42 AM CDT

      Court Orders Fritzl Held 1 More Month

      An Austrian court today ordered Josef Fritzl to remain in custody for another month while the investigation continues, reports Reuters. In addition, reports the Times of London, prosecutors say Fritzl will probably now face manslaughter charges after admitting in an interview that one of the children he fathered with his daughter died in the cellar where he imprisoned them. More »

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      Josef Fritzl  • sexual abuse  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • Amstetten, Austria  • insanity

    • Fritzl Blames Nazis, Says He Was Trying to Save Daughter

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 8, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Fritzl Blames Nazis, Says He Was Trying to Save Daughter

      In jail-cell notes released by his lawyer, Josef Fritzl goes to bizarre lengths to defend the rape and imprisonment of his daughter, citing his Nazi upbringing for instilling “a high regard for decency and uprightness,” and a need to save the 18-year-old Elisabeth from drinking and dissipation. “She was going out to seedy bars and would spend whole nights there drinking and smoking," he wrote. "I only tried to rescue her from that life." More »

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      rape  • media  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • Amstetten, Austria  • insanity  • Rudolf Mayer

    • Fritzl Will Plead Insanity

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  May 4, 08 1:28 PM CDT

      Fritzl Will Plead Insanity

      The man charged with imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and repeatedly raping her may not spend long behind bars, reports the Times of London, as Josef Fritzel's lawyer plans to plead insanity to avoid a prison term. “Josef Fritzl is mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his actions," and belongs "in a closed psychiatry ward," Rudolf Mayer said.  More »

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      rape  • Josef Fritzl  • sexual abuse  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • Amstetten, Austria  • insanity  • plea

  • August 2007

    • Nowak to Argue Temporary Insanity

      newser  |  Orlando Sentinel  |  Aug 28, 07 4:01 PM CDT

      Nowak to Argue Temporary Insanity

      Former astronaut Lisa Nowak will plead temporary insanity if she goes to trial on kidnapping and assault charges next month. A notice her lawyer filed today says she was experiencing a major depressive disorder when she attacked her ex-lover's girlfriend at the Orlando airport in February, the Sentinel reports. More »

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      kidnapping  • astronauts  • trial  • depression  • assault  • Lisa Nowak  • insanity

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