The only inside account of the Fritzl case - Josef Fritzl's
horrific incarceration of his daughter in a windowless dungeon for
24 years and the seven children he fathered with her - from the
journalists who helped to break the story. Until April 19 2008,
Josef Fritzl seemed like an upstanding member of the community in
the Austrian town of Amstetten: an ideal father and successful
businessman who had worked his way up from humble beginnings to
become a role model of respectability. Yet for over two decades he
had been living a double life of unimaginable and unparalleled
horror. In 1984 he had drugged his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth,
and dragged her into a purpose-made prison under the house that he
had spent five years preparing. He held her captive there for 24
years and raped her frequently. Fritzl initially kept his daughter
chained to a bed and forced her to re-enact scenes from
pornographic films he projected in the cellar. Three months into
her incarceration Elisabeth miscarried what would have been her
first child. Over the next 18 years in the cellar she bore her
father seven children - six of whom survived. Lisa, Monika and
Alexander were taken 'upstairs' to live with their grandmother.
Michael died after birth. Kerstin, Stefan and Felix were never to
see daylight, trapped with their mother in the five-room cellar.
This bold and forensically-researched study sheds new light on the
mind and the psychological development of the man who became one of
the most unique and frightening criminals in history. It includes
new information on the bizarre formative experiences that shaped
his pathology and argues that his crimes, though unthinkable, were
in many ways inevitable. Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski were
the first English-speaking reporters to break the case and were
there as the police uncovered the dungeon. They draw on previously
unreleased testimonies from the trial as well as exclusive
interviews and documents including confidential official files on
the case to give the only complete and authoritative account of the
forces that drove Fritzl to create another world, far from the
light, in which his fantasies of control could be played out.
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