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NEWS ABOUT: Josef Fritzl

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'Ghoulish Tourism' Develops in Amstetten

Incest dungeon site attracts out-of-towners

May 13, 08 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tourists are flocking to Amstetten, Austria, and snapping pictures at the site where Josef Fritzl kept his daughter imprisoned as a sex slave for 23 years, the Telegraph reports. "It is bad enough that journalists and TV crews have beleaguered our town, but now there is this ghoulish tourism,... More »

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Cops Plan to Quiz Fritzl's
Wife Again

Police don't suspect her, but wonder if
she's suppressing info

May 11, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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rape • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • police investigation • Rosemarie Fritzl

Court Orders Fritzl Held 1 More Month

Will now likely face manslaughter charges in baby's death

May 9, 08 7:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Fritzl Blames Nazis, Says He Was Trying to Save Daughter

Didn't plan incest; gave in to taste for 'forbidden'

May 8, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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. “... More »

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

Letters Show Fritzl Daughter Meant to Leave Home

Elisabeth wrote to friend just before her imprisonment

May 8, 08 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Fritzl Triggers Change in Austria Sex Law

His rape conviction was wiped off books as he adopted grandkids

May 8, 08 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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 'I Am No Monster': Fritzl 

'I could have killed all of them, and no one would have known,' incest dungeon-master says

May 7, 08 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Austria • child abuse • sexual abuse • prosecutors • incest • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl

Minister Rips Cops' 'Gullibility' in Incest Case

Local authorities too quick to believe Fritzl's daughter joined cult

May 7, 08 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austria's justice minister says local officials were too quick to believe Josef Fritzl's cover story for his daughter Elisabeth's imprisonment, Reuters reports. Fritzl claimed Elisabeth had run away and joined a cult, instead holding her captive and raping her in his basement. "Looking at everything that we know up... More »

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Domineering, 'Perverse' Fritzl
Feared at Local Brothel

'Mentally ill' dungeon dad terrified prostitutes

May 7, 08 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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Austria • brothel • prostitute • incest • sado-masochism • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria

Daughter May Sue Fritzl for Compensation

Lawyer investigates incest perpetrator's financial situation

May 6, 08 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Police Think Dungeon Dad Raped Granddaughter

Incest daughter Kerstin, 19, still in coma, but likely to live

May 6, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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Fritzl Spent Years Planning Dungeon

Father devoted 6 years to building prison to house daughter

May 5, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joseph Fritzl’s plot to imprison his daughter began when the girl was just 12, Austrian police believe, six years before he finally locked her away. Fritzl built an extension to his house between 1978 and 1983, AFP reports. “The intention must have been there to build a secret... More »

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Sister-in-Law: Fritzl's Wife Never Suspected

She swallowed tale
that teen joined cult

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

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rape • sexual abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Rosemarie Fritzl

Fritzl Will
Plead Insanity

Lawyer says man who raped daughter for 24 years' is mentally ill, not responsible for actions

May 4, 08 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Fritzl Owes Millions, Further Clouding Kids' Future

Family living in clinic won't see funds from his property

May 4, 08 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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rape • sexual abuse • debt • recovery • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

Fritzl's Lawyer Sees 'Good But Also Bad' in His Eyes

'My job is to show him as a human being,' attorney says

May 3, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Austria • lawyer • legal defense • incest • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Rudolf Mayer

Fritzl Neighbors Knew He Was Raping Daughter

Ex-tenant, others didn't report abuse before she was imprisoned

May 3, 08 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tenant who lived in Josef Fritzl's house for 4 years in the early '80s knew the Austrian father was abusing his daughter Elisabeth, the Times of London reports. The lodger said he was told of the abuse by a neighbor, who had helped the teenage Elisabeth escape to Vienna—... More »

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rape • Austria • abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria

Fritzl Served Time for Rape
in 1960s

Victim recalls attack;
he has 2 other arrests for sex offenses

May 2, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - It seems Josef Fritzl’s daughter wasn’t the only woman he abused. Fritzl was a known sex offender even before his basement of horrors came to light, with prior convictions for a rape, an attempted rape, and public exposure, the Times of London reports. It’s a major... More »

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rape • Austria • sexual abuse • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria

Dungeon Daughter Will Probably Die

Police would consider murder charges against Fritzl

May 2, 08 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kerstin Fritzl, the eldest of Josef Fritzl’s “downstairs family,” has slipped into a coma from which she is unlikely to recover, the Daily Telegraph reports. “She is suffering from multiple organ failure,” said a hospital spokesman. “That means her chances of survival are... More »

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Austria • child abuse • child neglect • coma • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl

Police Quiz Ex-Tenants
of Fritzl House

Former lodger
recalls missing
food, high utility bills

May 2, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former tenant who lived just above the basement where Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter recalled wondering why his electricity bills were so high and why food disappeared from his kitchen, AFP reports. Police are tracking down the 100 or so lodgers who lived at the Fritzl house in the... More »

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