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He kept his daughter Elizabeth for 24 years in the basement of the house he built himself. During these years he raped, beat and tortured the girl. Elizabeth bore him seven children, and their only contact with the outside world was an old television. “I knew Elizabeth didn’t want me to do what I did to her. I knew I was hurting her… But it was like an addiction.”
How was he?
Josef Fritzl was born in Austria in 1935 and spent his childhood in fear. It was turbulent and violent. He grew up with his mother Maria and never knew his father. Maria treated her son very cruelly. According to Fritzl’s half-sister, “he was raised with the fist, beaten almost daily until he was black and blue.” Decades later, a psychiatrist testified in court that Josef spent his childhood “in a state of great fear” because of his mother didn’t show him any love and often left him completely alone. He was an eccentric and somewhat of a loner, but then at the age of 21 he married Rosemary, with whom he lived for 51 years. She was 17 on her wedding day. Little educated. As a trained kitchen assistant, Fritzl was all she had. He was working as an electrical engineer at the time and was “very intelligent,” as some would later say.
He didn’t particularly value Rosemary’s abilities, so he controlled every detail of her life. There was no disagreement between them – it happened as the husband said. Rosemary’s sister said in an interview: “Listen, if I was scared even at family gatherings and wasn’t sure if I could say something that might offend him, then you can only imagine what it was like for a woman like that spent many years with Fritzl. Although their relationship was strained, the couple had seven children. One of them is Elizabeth.
Disappears without a trace
When he came home from work, the children’s friends had to leave the house immediately. When he entered the room, the children had to maintain a solemn silence. If they didn’t follow the rules or forgot to say “please” or “thank you,” Fritzl beat them. This is to “maintain discipline.” However, he first showed his sexual inclinations towards Elizabeth when the girl was around 11 years old. She was raped. After what happened, Elizabeth didn’t tell anyone about it and Fritz left the girl alone for several weeks, but then it happened again.
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