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NEWS ABOUT: Elisabeth Fritzl

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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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crime • abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • criminal investigation • dungeon

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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rape • Austria • trial • slavery • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

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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testimony • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • dungeon

 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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weird • court • captivity • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

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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Austria • hospital • reunion • coma • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl

 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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coma • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl • sex slave • Amstetten-Mauer clinic

 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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 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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Austria • daughter • interview • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • dungeon

 Dungeon Daughter: 'I Never Want to See My Father Again'

Elisabeth Fritzl spends first Mother's Day with 'above ground' kids

May 12, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Austrian woman who spent 24 years in a cellar as the sex slave of her sadistic father has said she never wants to see him again, reports the Daily Telegraph. The information was revealed as Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, spent her first Mother's Day with five of her six surviving... More »

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Austria • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Mother's Day • sex slave • dungeon • cellar • Felix • Lisa • Monika • Alexander • Kerstin • Josef • Christoph Herbst • boyfriend

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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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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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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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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crime • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria

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

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

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