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July 2008
- Police Question Dungeon Daughter
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 11, 08 9:40 AM CDT
  
  Elizabeth Fritzl won’t have to appear in court to give her account of her dungeon nightmare. Fritzl, who was imprisoned by her father for 24 years and forced to bear him seven children, was questioned in a secret location today, police announced, and will be interviewed again Monday. Authorities will play the taped interview in court, the AP reports, sparing Elizabeth from being in the room with her father, who she has said she never wants to see again. More »
  
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June 2008
- Dungeon Daughter 'Not Prepared' to Testify
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 25, 08 4:31 AM CDT
  
  Two months after being rescued from an Austrian cellar where her father imprisoned her as a sex slave for 24 years, Elisabeth Fritzl isn’t emotionally prepared to testify against him, reports the Guardian . Her doctors have postponed the ordeal for at least three weeks. The 42-year-old woman was scheduled to testify next week in a video hearing during which she would have been able to see her father and face questioning by him . More »
  
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- Fritzl's Wife Visits Incest Dungeon
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 16, 08 10:34 AM CDT
  
  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. More »
  
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May 2008
- Fritzl Family Will Get New Identities
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 30, 08 5:32 AM CDT
  
  Austrian authorities are preparing new identities for dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s entire family, including the daughter he imprisoned in a celler, the six children Fritzl fathered with her, her six adult siblings and her mother. The family members have been hounded by lucrative offers for media interviews, the Times reports. More »
  
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  Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • dungeon
- Docs Bringing Fritzl Daughter Out of Coma
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | May 27, 08 2:22 PM CDT
  
  Doctors are attempting to bring Kerstin Fritzl—the girl Josef Fritzl fathered with his own daughter in an Austrian dungeon—out of an induced coma, the Guardian reports. Kerstin, 19, was admitted to hospital April 19 with multiple organ failure, and was sent into a coma to give her time to recover. More »
  
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- Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 18, 08 8:03 PM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl's crimes stunned the world, but such demented patriarchs have long haunted Austrian literature. The dark 1852 story "Turmalin" depicts a deranged husband locking up his daughter; the 1917 novel The Grave of the Living tells of a troubled family and an imprisoned child. "This is the cultural matrix from which Josef Fritzl emerged," writes Ritchie Robertson in the Times Literary Supplement . More »
  
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  torture • literature • Josef Fritzl • incest • Vienna • patriarchy
- Fritzl Family Paints Plea for Normalcy
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 14, 08 11:50 AM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl’s family has broken its silence, the Daily Telegraph reports, with a hand-painted sign hung in a window of their Austrian home. The family thanks the public for its support: “We hope that there will be a time when we can return to normal life,” it says, in text surrounded by rainbows and handprints with messages from family members. More »
  
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- Cops Plan to Quiz Fritzl's Wife Again
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 11, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  Austrian police want another round of questioning with Josef Fritzl's 68-year-old wife, the Times of London reports. But the chief investigator in the case doesn't count Rosemarie Fritzl a suspect, and asked, “What woman would stay silent if she knew that her husband had seven children with his daughter and was holding her prisoner in the cellar?” More »
  
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- Court Orders Fritzl Held 1 More Month
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 9, 08 7:42 AM CDT
  
  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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- Fritzl Blames Nazis, Says He Was Trying to Save Daughter
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 8, 08 11:53 AM CDT
  
  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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- Letters Show Fritzl Daughter Meant to Leave Home
  
  newser | BBC | May 8, 08 11:08 AM CDT
  
  Elisabeth Fritzl intended to leave home just before her father imprisoned her, letters published in the Oesterreich newspaper show. “After the exams … I'm moving in with my sister and her boyfriend,” the 18-year-old wrote to a friend in 1984. “Cross your fingers for me. When you get this letter, it will all be over,” she wrote just weeks before she disappeared. More »
  
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- Fritzl Triggers Change in Austria Sex Law
  
  newser | BBC | May 8, 08 7:41 AM CDT
  
  The Josef Fritzl case has spurred Austrian legislators to initiate changes in sex crime laws to prevent child abuse, the BBC reports. As Fritzl kept his daughter imprisoned as a sex slave, he was granted custody for three of the children he fathered with her— despite a rape conviction. His conviction was wiped off the books after 15 years. Austria now wants to keep sex crime records for at least 30 years. More »
  
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- 'I Am No Monster': Fritzl
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 7, 08 11:37 AM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl complained today about receiving bad press since admitting to keeping an incestuous second family locked in his Austrian cellar, the Telegraph reports. "I am no monster," Fritzl said through his lawyer, calling his treatment “unfair” and calling the media's narrative “entirely one-dimensional” because it neglected the fact that he kept his dungeon family alive for over 20 years. More »
  
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  child abuse • Josef Fritzl • sexual abuse • Austria • incest • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl • prosecutors
- Domineering, 'Perverse' Fritzl Feared at Local Brothel
  
  newser | Scotsman (UK) | May 7, 08 4:15 AM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl was a regular at a brothel near his Austrian town and the prostitutes there feared him and shunned him whenever they could, the Scotsman reports. His domineering, "perverse" demands terrified the women, said a bartender. Among customers "95% are normal and 3% are a bit weird. Fritzl belongs to the remaining 2% that are definitely mentally ill," the man added. More »
  
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- Daughter May Sue Fritzl for Compensation
  
  newser | Reuters | May 6, 08 4:58 PM CDT
  
  Austrian incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl may sue her father for compensation, Reuters reports. "There is the possibility of claiming compensation for imprisonment and the damage that has been incurred by it," said a lawyer for Fritzl, whose father/captor reportedly is deeply in debt. "Now it is all about evaluating his financial circumstances. Does he actually have any wealth?" More »
  
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  crime • Josef Fritzl • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria
- Police Think Dungeon Dad Raped Granddaughter
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | May 6, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl might not have stopped at raping his daughter, Austrian police now say, fearing now that Fritzl raped granddaughter Kerstin, the oldest incest child born in his cellar dungeon, the Daily Mail reports. But police aren't able to question the 19-year-old because she is still in an induced coma, though she is now stable and expected to live. More »
  
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  rape • child abuse • Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl
- Sister-in-Law: Fritzl's Wife Never Suspected
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 5, 08 5:30 AM CDT
  
  The wife of the Austrian grandfather who kept their daughter imprisoned in a basement under their apartment for 24 years never suspected she was there, her sister tells the AP. Rosemarie Fritzl believed her husband's tale that the daughter he kept as a sex slave ran away from home to join a cult. The two women even “did detective work” to search for the cult, the sister said. More »
  
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- Fritzl Will Plead Insanity
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 4, 08 1:28 PM CDT
  
  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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- Fritzl Owes Millions, Further Clouding Kids' Future
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | May 4, 08 9:22 AM CDT
  
  Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl is millions of euros in debt, adding to the challenge of his daughter’s recovery from years of sexual abuse and imprisonment, and the children's painful adaptation to the outside world, the Guardian reports. Now in a clinic near their old home, the family’s recuperation will take years, experts say. More »
  
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- Fritzl's Lawyer Sees 'Good But Also Bad' in His Eyes
  
  newser | Der Spiegel | May 3, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  Josef Fritzl's attorney is bonding with his client and painting a new picture of him for the press, Der Spiegel reports. “Josef Fritzl is being portrayed as a horrific monster and sexual tyrant," said Rudolf Mayer, a renowned Viennese lawyer. "My job is to show him as a human being." Mayer said he looked into Fritzl's eyes and gleaned much of his psyche in their first meeting. More »
  
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  Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Amstetten, Austria • lawyer • legal defense • Rudolf Mayer

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