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Articles about Josef Fritzl

'Australia's Fritzl' charged with raping daughter for 30 years

An Australian man raped his daughter almost daily for 30 years in a case that echoes the incest crimes of Josef Fritzl in Austria.

Not a love story

It’s going to be difficult for Jaycee Dugard and her parents, who lost an 11-year-old girl and found a woman. They won’t know her.

Monster in the room

It's a fudge, of course, but it seems to be a highly seductive fudge. Tabloid headlines around the world have repeatedly labelled him a monster.

'Do I feel sorry for Josef Fritzl? A small part of me does'

Psychiatrist Heidi Kastner interviewed Fritzl repeatedly. She talks about how his mind works -- and how the case affected her.

Fritzl gets life in psychiatric ward for incest-murder

Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric institution on Thursday for locking up and raping his daughter over 24 years.

Fritzl damaged from the 'cellar of his soul'

A court psychiatrist yesterday described how Josef Fritzl had locked up his daughter as a way of compensating for a loveless childhood.

Fritzl admits murder, enslavement

An Austrian who fathered seven children with a daughter he locked in a cellar for 24 years pleaded guilty on Wednesday to enslavement and murder.

'Light out. Rape. Light on. Rape. Birth. Death. Rape'

She pulled back the lid of the cardboard box, and invited the jurors to take a sniff. It was a chance to experience the rancid stink of the cellar.

Living in a cellar: Elisabeth Fritzl's home for 24 years

The windowless space had no heating, no hot water, no sunlight or fresh air, but it was Elisabeth Fritzl's home and that of her children for 24 years.

Austrian incest father Fritzl charged with murder

Austrian Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children by her, has been charged with the murder.

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Photos about Josef Fritzl

Nose in a book
Josef Fritzl hides his face at the start of his trial on Monday in Sankt Poelten, Austria.
Light of day
Josef Fritzl (73) poses for a police photograph after he was taken into custody in St Poelten, Lower Austria, on Saturday. Fritzl confessed to locking his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.


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