a b "Timeline: Austrian cellar case". BBC News. 19 March 2009. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008 . Retrieved 30 April 2008. Josef Fritzl was born on April 9, 1934, in Amstetten, Austria, a small town of 14,000 located halfway between Vienna and Salzburg. At the age of twenty-one, he married 17-year-old Rosemarie and together they had seven children: two sons and five daughters. Elisabeth Fritzl was born in 1966 when Josef was 31 years old. When Elisabeth turned 11 years old, Josef began sexually abusing her.

Fritzl girl wakes from coma and is reunited with her family". The Daily Telegraph. 9 June 2008. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. He dictated a stateme Bradley S. Klapper (2 May 2008). "Josef Fritzl: a shrewd liar and an obsessive tyrant". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 18 May 2008. Marsh, Stefanie; Pancevski, Bojan (2009). The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth. HarperElement. ISBN 9780007300556. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023 . Retrieved 2 July 2020.We always thought that a woman with so many children may have had more than one partner. One of them might have had a criminal record. Pursuant to the agreement that she would never have to see her father again, Elisabeth Fritzl gave videotaped testimony before Austrian prosecutors and investigators on 11 July 2008. [32] On 13 November 2008, authorities in Austria released an indictment against Josef Fritzl. He stood trial for the murder of the infant Michael, who died shortly after birth, [33] and faced between 10 years and life imprisonment. He was also charged with rape, incest, kidnapping, false imprisonment and slavery, which carry a maximum 20-year term. [10] Captivity [ edit ]

Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". Die Zeit (in German). 2013. Archived from the original on 18 December 2022 . Retrieved 18 December 2022. Decorations in the windows of the children’s bedrooms upstairs were eerily replicated in the dungeon bathroom below. Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer said he planned to launch a foreign public image campaign for his country, in light of the "abominable events." [65] Aftermath [ edit ] You can imagine that it was getting a bit crowded. You must have guessed the more prisoners in the cellar the more complicated it became to look after them. a b Boyes, Roger (20 March 2009). "Josef Fitzl's upstairs, downstairs families united for a new life in the open". Times Online. London. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 22 March 2009.

Family Life

Inside Josef Fritzl's cellar dungeon". BBC News. 30 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008 . Retrieved 10 May 2008. Mentally of course, they all were a mess. Kerstin was known to tear her hair out in large clumps, and another was known to shred her clothes and flush them down the toilet. But there were many bizarre physical ailments resulting from their prolonged existence underground. The dark confines of the basement dungeon impacted the children more than originally thought. She talked about how her own father, Josef Fritzl, had imprisoned her at age 18 in a cellar compound he had secretly designed and built in their own house. There he raped her repeatedly. There she’d given birth to seven children.

a b c d e f g h i j "The Amstetten Horror House: 8,516 Days in Darkness". Spiegel Online. 6 May 2008. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008 . Retrieved 6 May 2008. Gerturd Ramharter, Josef’s neighbor who lived across the street, says she often heard hammering and construction noise coming from the house. She wondered, “What’s he building? And how big is it going to be?” Other tenants Judge Humer, who presided over the trial, stated medical experts reported Elisabeth and her children were in "relatively good health." After being taken into care, Elisabeth, all six of her surviving children and her mother were housed in a local clinic where they were shielded from the outside environment and received medical and psychological treatment. Members of the Fritzl family were offered new identities, but it was emphasized that it was their choice to make. [45] Fritzl lets the mask slip as his daughter tells her tragic story". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. The trial of Josef Fritzl commenced on 16 March 2009, in the city of Sankt Pölten, presided over by Judge Andrea Humer. On the first day, Fritzl entered the courtroom attempting to hide his face from cameras behind a blue folder, which he was entitled to do under Austrian law. After opening comments, all journalists and spectators were asked to leave the courtroom, whereupon Fritzl lowered his folder. Fritzl pleaded guilty to all charges with the exception of murder and grievous assault by threatening to gas his captives if they disobeyed him. [53]So far, Josef Fritzl is reported to have shown little remorse, even though he has confessed to his heinous crimes. After a 4-day trial in the town of St. Pölten and 3 weeks before his 74th birthday, Fritzl pleads guilty to the charges of the murder by negligence of his infant son (and grandson) Michael, as well as the decades of enslavement, incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment of his daughter Elisabeth, and is sentenced to life imprisonment. [10] April 19, 2008 Fritzl arranges for critically ill 19-year-old Kerstin to be taken to a local hospital.