An Austrian accused of keeping his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years insisted he is ”no monster”, but that he could have killed his daughter and her children without anyone knowing, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Josef Fritzl’s claims were published as the 73-year-old was interviewed by prosecutors for the first time.
DNA tests showed that Austrian Josef Fritzl, who raped his daughter and kept her prisoner in a windowless cellar for 24 years, was the father of her six surviving children, police said on Tuesday. Fritzl has confessed to imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth in the cellar beneath their two-storey home and fathering seven children by her.