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Austria stories: 76 news summaries

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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

First Austrian Cellar Girl Becomes Talk Show Host

Natascha Kampusch gets gig two years after escaping

May 30, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Austrian woman who was held captive for more than 8 years has achieved her dream of hosting a talk show, the Guardian reports. TV had been Natascha Kampusch's main source of entertainment during her years trapped in a cellar before her escape; now she’s seeing “the other... More »

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kidnapping • Austria • talk show • cellar

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

 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

Austrian Man Murders
Family With Ax

Kills five relatives in several locations

May 15, 08 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austria made crime headlines again yesterday when a man walked into a Vienna police station and confessed to killing five family members with an ax, CNN reports. He killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter, as well as his parents and father-in-law in other cities, a police spokesman said. Police found... More »

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murder • Austria • family • Vienna • ax • filicide

 Fritzl Family Paints Plea
 for Normalcy 

'I am happy about my freedom and about my family,' writes 18-year-old Stefan

May 14, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Austria • child abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl • Rosemarie Fritzl • Stefan Fritzl

 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

 Swiss Face French-Fry Shortage 

 Snack crisis threatened soccer tourney

May 9, 08 3:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Switzerland faces a potato shortage just weeks before hundreds of thousands of famished European soccer fans descend on the country expecting to snack on French fries. The nation, which is co-hosting the upcoming international soccer tournament Euro 2008, is mashing the pending crisis by lifting trade barriers to import 5,... More »

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Switzerland • soccer • imports • Austria • Euro 2008 • potatoes • trade barriers • French fries

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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rape • Austria • abuse • letters • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

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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rape • Austria • sexual abuse • sex offenders • conviction • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 '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

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

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'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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rape • Austria • abuse • police pursuits • police hunt • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Told Victims
 He'd Gas Them 

Sister-in-law says he'd 'spend whole nights down there'

May 1, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl threatened to gas his captive daughter and their children if they tried to escape, the Guardian reports, claiming he had rigged a toxic-gas system in the basement. Meanwhile, the possibility of an accomplice arose for the first time today, when a 12-year lodger at the house said he... More »

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captives • rape • Austria • abuse • toxic gas • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

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