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May 2008
- 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
- 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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