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  • August 2008

    • Fritzls Return to House of Horrors to Help Cops

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Aug 13, 08 2:01 PM CDT

      Fritzls Return to House of Horrors to Help Cops

      (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 has been cooperating with police, even crafting a thank-you poster for them. More »

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

  • July 2008

    • Police Question Dungeon Daughter

      Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 9:40 AM CDT

      Police Question Dungeon Daughter

      (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.  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

  • May 2008

    • Fritzl Family Will Get New Identities

      Times (UK)  |  May 30, 08 5:32 AM CDT

      Fritzl Family Will Get New Identities

      (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 reports. More »

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

    • Docs Bringing Fritzl Daughter Out of Coma

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 27, 08 2:22 PM CDT

      Docs Bringing Fritzl Daughter Out of Coma

      (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 to recover. More »

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      Josef Fritzl  • incest  • coma  • Kerstin Fritzl  • dungeon

    • Fritzl Daughter to Give Interview

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  May 19, 08 3:18 PM CDT

      Fritzl Daughter to Give Interview

      (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 been pushing the boundaries of decorum in efforts to get photos of the family. More »

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

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

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 12, 08 5:33 AM CDT

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

      (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 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

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