However, not much is known about the other members of Elisabeth’s family, including her mother and siblings. The events that led up to Elisabeth’s kidnap, the devastating ordeal, and how she found her way back to society have been documented in various articles. Ironically, her children were as much her siblings as they were her children as a result of the incest she was forced to commit with her monster of a father. While she remained in captivity, Elisabeth conceived and bore 7 children. To clear up any confusion that the previous statement might have generated, it is important to recall that Elisabeth Fritzl is the protagonist of The Fritzl Case, which depicts the real-life story of an Austrian woman who was kidnapped on her 18th birthday by her own father, Josef Fritzl.Įlisabeth was subsequently held in the basement of her own home, where she was raped and tortured for 24 years. Six of her siblings were conceived and given birth to by her mother, Rosemarie Fritzl, while the other seven children were conceived and birthed by Elisabeth herself.
If found guilty of murder through neglect of the child that died, prosecutors say Fritzl could face 10-15 years in jail or even a life sentence.Elisabeth Fritzl has 13 siblings, namely Ulrike Fritzl, Rosemarie Fritzl Jnr., Harald Fritzl, Gabrielle Fritzl, Josef Fritzl Jnr., Doris Fritzl, Kerstin Fritzl, Stefan Fritzl, Lisa Fritzl, Monika Fritzl, Alexander Fritzl, Michael Fritzl (deceased), and Felix Fritzl. The incest case is very clear, Prucher said. “In my opinion it is without doubt he will be detained for longer. The three other children - two girls and one boy - were raised by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie, who themselves had had seven children.Īfter appearing before a judge on Tuesday, Fritzl is now in investigative custody, a period of 14 days after which he must go to court again for his detention to be extended. Three of Elisabeth’s surviving children, a daughter aged 19 and two sons aged 18 and 5, had also been locked up in the cellar with her since birth and had never seen daylight.įritzl’s family have had an “astonishing” reunion, a medical official said on Tuesday. Officials say Fritzl could have stored food in the cellar and left his hidden family alone for weeks.ĭescribed by police as “authoritarian” and “cunning”, Fritzl lured his daughter Elisabeth into the cellar of their home in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her, according to a statement by his now 42-year-old daughter. “Who did he meet, where did he shop, where did he go? We have 24 years to cover,” Prucher said, adding further details would be given at a news conference later on Wednesday.Īmstetten officials say they do not blame local authorities for failing to discover the case earlier and say those who allowed Fritzl and his wife to care for three of Elisabeth’s children acted within the law.Īustrian and German media reports say Fritzl went on holiday alone in Thailand and Cyprus and have shown a picture of him in bathing shorts. “Now the DNA tests prove he is both the father and grandfather of the children, we must reconstruct his entire life, piece by piece,” Franz Prucher, head of security in Lower Austria told Reuters.
Meanwhile, investigators said they were now painstakingly trying to reconstruct the life of Fritzl, who had seven children with his daughter.ĭNA tests have confirmed 73-year-old Josef Fritzl was the father of all six of his daughter’s surviving children and prosecutors are probing him for rape, incest, coercion and the death of the seventh child, whose remains he burnt in a furnace.
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Gusenbauer said the government planned to hire consultants to get the campaign under way and would use “all technical and professional means available to rectify” Austria’s image. The case has sent shockwaves through Austria less than two years after an Austrian teenager, Natascha Kampusch, escaped from the basement where she had been locked up by an abductor for eight years. “We won’t allow the whole country to be held hostage by one man,” he told journalists in Vienna.
This is an unfathomable criminal case, but also an isolated case,” Gusenbauer said in his first public reaction. “It’s not Austria that is the perpetrator. The plight of Elisabeth Fritzl, whose 73-year old father Josef sexually abused her and kept her in a windowless basement for 24 years has put the eastern Austrian town of Amstetten in the international media spotlight. A police officer guards the backyard of a house in Amstetten in eastern Austria April 29, 2008.
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