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own confession and DNA testing _ the confinement of his daughter for 24 years to a basement dungeon where she raised six children he sired. A seventh child died in infancy.
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Elisabeth Fritzl was forced to help build the dungeon where she was kept by her sadistic father Josef, it emerged yesterday.
Josef Fritzl dragged a 300 kilo door into the cellar to turn
The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter and fathered seven children with her first planned to build his secret ...
With files from the Associated Press
Austrian police are investigating whether the unsolved killing of a young woman in 1986 is connected to a man who confessed this week to holding his daughter captive in his basement for 24 years and fathering
A reproduction of a Black and White photo from a private collection dated from June 11, 1951, made available Friday may 2, 2008 shows a man who was identified by a former Schoolmate as the then 16 year-old Josef Fritzl standing in front of a statue
Photo: Police Niederoesterreich, via Associated Press
Josef Fritzl, in a photo released by the Austrian police.
AMSTETTEN, Austria — With his Mercedes-Benz and the rings on his fingers, Josef Fritzl looked every inch a property owner, neighbors in this
AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- A 73-year-old who admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children appeared in court Tuesday as Austrians struggled to come to terms with its second horrific abduction case in two
A photo taken by and released by the Austrian police with permission of Austria's prosecution office on Monday, April 28, 2008 shows suspect Josef F. at an unspecified location.
The sister-in-law of Austria's accused 'horror father' Josef Fritzl speaks
His swanky offices are in one of Vienna's more affluent neighborhoods, in district 9, near the oldest university in the German-speaking world. Sigmund Freud once lived and worked just around the corner -- something of a coincidence, considering Rudolf
Police are waiting for her to be taken out of the coma before they can interview her to confirm their suspicions that Mr Fritzl used her as a sex slave replacement for Elisabeth.
Chief investigator Franz Polzer yesterday said: "His motive was to