Fritzl biography

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Josef Fritzl's notoriety began in 2008 when his daughter reappeared 24 years after she went missing. 

She had spent those years locked in the cellar below the Fritzl family home in the city of Amstetten, Austria.

What did Josef Fritzl do?

Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar from when she was 18 until she reached the age of 42.

Trapped underground and enslaved, she was raped thousands of times by her own father and gave birth to seven of his children.

He had sexually abused her from when she was 11.

In the cellar, he started raping her - sometimes several times a day.

Three of their children were kept in captivity with their mother.

One died days after birth and the other three were taken upstairs to be raised in the house.

Fritzl incinerated the body of the baby who died and was later charged with negligent homicide for failing to get medical help for the infant.

He beat Elisabeth and forced her to recreate acts from pornographic videos - sometimes in front of her children.

Fritzl punished Elisabeth and her children by switching off the power for days at a time.

He also told his captives they would be electrocuted if they tried to get through the cellar door

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I'm No Monster: The Horrifying True Story of Josef Fritzl

Proving beyond a reasonable doubt the falsity of the title, London writers Marsh and Pancevski detail the internationally infamous life and depraved crimes of Josef Fritzl. Born in Austria in 1936, married in 1956 and the father of seven, Fritzl saw himself as a hardworking family man. In reality, he was a rapist (convicted in 1967) and a tyrant, routinely beating his wife and children. He began sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth when she was 11 and later imprisoned her for 24 years in a secret bunker beneath the family home, during which time she bore seven children. (Fritzl told everyone she had run away to join a cult.) But when one of Elizabeth's daughters became gravely ill, requiring a trip to the hospital, his plot unraveled, and he was sentenced to life in prison in 2009. Through interviews with family acquaintances, doctors and prosecutors, Marsh and Pancevski not only portray a “sadistic” Fritzl, but also Elisabeth's courage in surviving and attempting to protect her children. The authors also indict police and social service agencies for ignoring clues that something was terribly amiss in the Fritzl household.

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Reviewed on: 09/21/2009

Genre: Nonfiction

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