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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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  Josef Fritzl • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • testimony • dungeon
June 2008
- Dungeon Girl Will Make Full Recovery: Docs
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 11, 08 10:47 AM CDT
  
  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 in a house on the hospital’s campus, the BBC reports. More »
  
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  Josef Fritzl • Austria • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • hospital • reunion • coma • Kerstin Fritzl
- Dungeon Girl Wakes From Coma
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 10, 08 5:12 AM CDT
  
  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 were no immediate details about the reunion or her condition. More »
  
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  Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl • coma • sex slaves
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
- Fritzl Daughter to Give Interview
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | May 19, 08 3:18 PM CDT
  
  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 been pushing the boundaries of decorum in efforts to get photos of the family. More »
  
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  Josef Fritzl • Austria • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • interview • dungeon • daughter
- 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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  child abuse • Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl • Rosemarie Fritzl
- 'Ghoulish Tourism' Develops in Amstetten
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 13, 08 5:06 PM CDT
  
  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," complains one resident. More »
  
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- Dungeon Daughter: 'I Never Want to See My Father Again'
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 12, 08 5:33 AM CDT
  
  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 children. When she was first reunited with the three raised "above ground" by her parents she hugged them, sobbing: "My babies. You are so beautiful," the paper reported. More »
  
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  Austria • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • dungeon • Mother's Day • cellar
- 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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  rape • Josef Fritzl • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Rosemarie Fritzl • police investigation
- 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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  rape • media • Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • insanity • Rudolf Mayer
- '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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  Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Amstetten, Austria • prostitute • brothel • sado-masochism
- 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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  rape • Josef Fritzl • sexual abuse • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Rosemarie Fritzl
- 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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  rape • Josef Fritzl • sexual abuse • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • insanity • plea
- 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
- Fritzl Neighbors Knew He Was Raping Daughter
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 3, 08 7:56 AM CDT
  
  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—only for police to track her down and return her to her father, who later imprisoned her in a cellar for 24 years. More »
  
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  rape • Josef Fritzl • Austria • incest • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • abuse
- Fritzl Served Time for Rape in 1960s
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 2, 08 12:02 PM CDT
  
  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 embarrassment for Amstetten police, who had claimed Fritzl had no criminal record. More »
  
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