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NEWS ABOUT: Josef Fritzl

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'Brit Fritzl' Gets Life for Raping Daughters 30 Years

'Worst case' judge has ever seen

Nov 26, 08 3:50 AM CST
(Newser) - A British father has been sentenced to 25 life terms for raping his two daughters over nearly 30 years and impregnating them 19 times, reports the Guardian. Nine of the pregnancies resulted in children, all with genetic abnormalities, and two died at birth. Other pregnancies miscarried or were terminated. The... More »

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Open My Rape Dungeon
to Tourists: Fritzl 

Josef Fritzl hoped to charge visitors to the Austria house where he repeatedly raped his own daughter

Nov 15, 08 5:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has proposed turning his dark, rat-filled subterranean dungeon into a tourist attraction, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl's sister-in-law told an Austrian tabloid that he hoped to collect 10 euros per visitor and give proceeds to his traumatized family. “It is completely mad,” she said. “The family... More »

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Fritzl 'Forced Daughter to Reenact Porn'

Charges against incest dad detail how he broke daughter's will

Nov 14, 08 4:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The charges against Josef Fritzl reveal fresh details of the ordeal he put his imprisoned daughter through, including forcing her to watch pornographic films and reenact scenes with him, the Daily Telegraph reports. Fritzl also beat and kicked his daughter, Elisabeth, whom he imprisoned for 24 years in a cellar,... More »

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(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has been charged with murder in the death of one of the seven children he had with his daughter Elisabeth, the Telegraph reports. Austrian prosecutors say he failed to provide medical care to the child, who fell ill shortly after birth. He later burned the child's body in... More »

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 Fritzl Bricked Up 
 Own Mother 
 for 21 Years 

Monster confesses to new outrage

Oct 30, 08 4:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Austrian who fathered seven children with the sex-slave daughter he kept locked in a dungeon has confessed to imprisoning his own mother in a bricked-up room for 21 years. Josef Fritzl, 73, locked his mother in a room and bricked over the only window "so that she never... More »

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 Fritzl: 'I Was Born to Rape' 

But says he 'managed to contain himself' for long time

Oct 22, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 73-year-old Austrian father who imprisoned his daughter in a dungeon as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her has told a therapist he is a "born rapist," reports the Times of London. Josef Fritzl's comments were revealed in a confidential psychiatric report... More »

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 Fritzl Trial 
 Won't  Start 
 This Year 

Prosecutors still gathering evidence against man accused of raping daughter for 24 years

Oct 13, 08 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of the Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter in a dungeon and raping her for 24 years likely will not start until early 2009, the Guardian reports. Prosecutors are still collecting evidence against Josef Fritzl, 73, and probably won’t be ready to go to court before... More »

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Elisabeth Fritzl Describes Life Under Josef

Father would threaten
to hurt kids if daughter resisted rape

Sep 10, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl describes as horrific life under the control of father Josef in the Austrian cellar where she and her children lived, the Telegraph reports. "He was very brutal against me," the 42-year-old said of the man who fathered seven children with her. Elisabeth, discovered in April, detailed... More »

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Fritzls Return to House
of Horrors to Help Cops

Mother, children were imprisoned in basement

Aug 13, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl and her children have returned for the first time to the basement where they were imprisoned, the Daily Mail reports, helping police gather evidence for the trial against their father. Police wanted the family to show them precisely where and how they were held captive. The family... More »

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Incest Father Fritzl May Face Slavery Charges

Trial for Austrian who locked up daughter planned for December

Aug 4, 08 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who imprisoned daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, may be charged with slavery, among other crimes, the Guardian reports. Officials plan to ready the case against him by September for a December trial, said a prosecutor. Fritzl has... More »

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Police Question Dungeon Daughter

Interview conducted
in secret location, videotaped for court

Jul 11, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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. ... More »

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 Dungeon Daughter
 'Not Prepared' to Testify

Docs postpone testimony at least three weeks

Jun 25, 08 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Fritzl's Wife Visits Incest Dungeon

Rosemarie picks up toys and clothes for daughter, her kids 

Jun 16, 08 10:34 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Dungeon Girl Will Make Full Recovery: Docs

Kerstin Fritzl will develop normally, 'happy' to be with family

Jun 11, 08 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A teenager who spent her life imprisoned in an Austrian cellar will recover fully and “develop normally” after major organ failure, said doctors at the hospital where she was treated. Kerstin Fritzl was recently awoken from an induced coma and reunited with her mother and siblings, who now live... More »

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 Dungeon Girl Wakes From Coma 

Reunited with freed mom after life in cellar

Jun 10, 08 5:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A teenager held captive her entire life in an underground dungeon with her mother and siblings has awoken from a seven-week coma, reports the Daily Telegraph. Kerstin Fritzl, 19, was reunited with her mother and other family members in a secure medical ward after flickering back to consciousness. There... More »

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 Fritzl Family Will Get
 New Identities 

Hounding reporters 'make them feel imprisoned again,' says attorney

May 30, 08 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 ... More »

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Docs Bringing Fritzl Daughter
Out of Coma

Hospitalization of Kerstin led to discovery of incest dungeon

May 27, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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 Fritzl Daughter to Give Interview 

Elisabeth, 42, said to choose Austrian TV for sitdown next Monday

May 19, 08 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl, imprisoned by her father for 24 years, will discuss life in the Austrian dungeon in a televised interview, the Daily Mail reports; the appearance on Austria's ORF TV will be broadcast next Monday. It was unclear what, if any, payment was agreed upon for the interview; paparazzi have... More »

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Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

Dark Austrian captivity stories formed his 'cultural matrix'

May 18, 08 8:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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torture • literature • Vienna • incest • Josef Fritzl • patriarchy

 Fritzl Family Paints Plea
 for Normalcy 

'I am happy about my freedom and about my family,' writes 18-year-old Stefan

May 14, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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