WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Monster rapist Josef Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth captive for more than two decades, ...

Elisabeth Fritzl was held captive in a basement and sexually abused by her father, Josef Fritzl, for 24 years — and had seven of his children. Years before the abduction, Josef remodeled the basement ...

Elisabeth Fritzl has been locked in a windowless cellar in Austria for roughly the same amount of time I have been alive. When she escaped, she told police about the 24 years she spent imprisoned ...

ST. POELTEN, Austria (AP) âÄî An Austrian man accused of locking his daughter in a basement for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty to incest but insisted he was innocent of ...

Fritzl was pictured for the first time in 15 years on Thursday - AFP /Joe Klamar An Austrian court on Thursday approved the transfer of Josef Fritzl – who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for over ...

The case of an Austrian suspected of holding a Dutch family captive for nearly a decade has sparked memories of two other high-profile kidnappings in the small Alpine country. Following the detention ...

The horrific details of the Fritzl case shocked the world and prompted a wave of soul-searching within his native Austria. The harrowing revelation that he had kept his daughter Elisabeth a prisoner ...

For almost a quarter of century, as life unfolded in the quiet Lower Austrian town of Amstetten, Elisabeth Fritzl was enduring an unimaginable ordeal behind the plain gray walls of a nondescript house ...

(Reuters) - Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric institution on Thursday for locking up and raping his daughter over 24 years, fathering seven children with her, and causing the death ...

ST POELTEN, Austria (Reuters) - Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a secure mental unit for locking up and raping his daughter in a cellar over 24 years, fathering seven children with her and ...