A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.

Police said Josef Fritzl also confessed to burning the body of a baby that died after birth at the house in Amstetten, in the province of Lower Austria.

Authorities are caring for the woman, now 42, and her six surviving children.

Police have released photos of the man's basement which show a concealed network of tiny windowless chambers.

The woman, Elisabeth, disappeared aged 18 on 28 August 1984 when, according to her testimony, her father lured her into the cellar, drugging and handcuffing her before locking her up.

She is reported to have been made to write a letter which made it look as if she had run away.

The head of the criminal affairs bureau in Lower Austria, Franz Polzer, said Mr Fritzl had admitted sexually abusing his daughter repeatedly during the time he imprisoned her.

Mr Polzer said Mr Fritzl had told investigators Elisabeth had given birth to seven children, including twins in 1996, but one died shortly after being born and that he had thrown the body into an incinerator in the building.

The surviving children are now aged between five and 19 years.


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that really is descusting


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I just can't get my head round it, did the family not go in the basement, ever? and what about those poor children.



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Yeah i read that, its horrible. Especially that he burned the dead baby. Why he keep some children upstairs but leave the rest with their mother? There are some sick Mofos on this earth!

Ugh... I was reading this article this morning, what I really wonder is how could the wife really not have known what was going on? What she just never went down to the basement in all those 20 something years and didnt happen to notice a door she hadnt seen before? Smells fishy to me.

What a sicko to father 7 kids with your own daughter... freaks like that make me wanna


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Wasn't the wife disabled? I think she was bedridden, so she couldn't go downstairs. Don't count me on it though!

I worked with a guy who built himself a bachelor pad for himself over his garage and because his wife was unable to climb a ladder he made access only by ladder. He could have had a hareem of girls up there for all she knew.


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I wonder if he abused his wife too. Was she too scared to venture into the cellar(if she was able).

I feel sickened by the whole thing and very sorry for all the victims,but i do fear the worst is to come for them,some of them would have no knowledge that what they have experienced is wrong,up until now.


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i just dont understand what would lead someone to do that.... there are some people that need some major help. how did no one find out about it for all of that time????? =[=[=[

Was there not another case of some girl being held captive for eight years in Austria in the past few years?

How many cellars are there in Austria hiding secrets?


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Yes, there was another similar case, 2006, but....

This seems to perpetuate a national 'tradition' of a sort! I can recall reading a book about a young man, in Austria, who was found wandering the streets... He had been in captivity since shortly after birth. When found, he could not communicate with anyone, he had never been taught to speak, read or write. I've tried to locate the name of the book, but google is only offering up childrens books, about Kasperle....


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Was there not another famous Austrian who had several million people incarcerated before killing many of them?


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They should chop his dick off and leave him in a cell to rott where he can get butt f**ked by a large man named Bubba all day long for the rest of his life.

That'd be about fair.