For 24 years, this man held his own daughter captive in a secret underground room, where she was repeatedly raped and gave birth to seven of his children
For 24 years, this man held his own daughter captive in a secret underground room, where she was repeatedly raped and gave birth to seven of his children. After giving birth, he would bring the children upstairs to live with him and his wife. In August of 1984, Josef Fritzl called his daughter into the basement of the family’s home. He was re-fitting a door to the newly renovated cellar and needed help carrying it. As Elisabeth held the door, Josef fixed it into place. As soon as it was on the hinges, he swung it open, forcing Elisabeth inside and knocking her unconscious with an ether-soaked towel. See the photos and go inside the horrifying story of Elisabeth Fritzl — by cflicking the link in our bio. The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, an...