Austrian has confessed to holding daughter captive in cellar for 24 years
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Austrian police are surrounded by re****ters Monday as they arrive at the
house in Amstetten where
the alleged abuse occurred.
Austrian house of horrors
April 28: An Austrian man says he imprisoned his daughter for almost 25
years and fathered seven
children with her. Dan Abrams discusses the case with former FBI profiler
Clint Van Zandt
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Fritzl told investigators that one of the seven children died in infancy
and
he tossed the body
in the furnace of his apartment building in the town of Amstetten, west of
Vienna, authorities
said.
Prosecutors said earlier Tuesday they are looking into the possibility of
charging Fritzl with
"murder through failure to act" in connection with that child's death.
Fritzl would face up to 20 years in prison if tried and convicted on such
a
charge.
Investigators were searching the 645 square feet cellar beneath the
electrical engineer's
two-story home, Franz Prucher, head of security in Lower Austria said.
"Down there it is just chaos at the moment. We have to go over every
detail
very carefully,"
Prucher told Reuters by telephone.
Fritzl is expected to be put in investigative custody for 14 days. After
this period, a further
hearing will decide whether he can continue being detained.
Lured into cellar
Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, says her father lured her into the cellar of their
home in 1984 and drugged
and handcuffed her before imprisoning her.
Three of her children, aged 19, 18 and 5, had been locked in the cellar
with
her since birth and
had never seen sunlight. The younger two were boys, the eldest a girl.
Three other children — two girls and one boy — were adopted and brought up
by Fritzl and his wife
Rosemarie.
Police said Fritzl had admitted to burning the body of a seventh child in
a
furnace used to heat
the building when the baby died soon after birth.
Hospital officials also told The Associated Press Tuesday that members of
the Fritzl family met
each other on Sunday and that the scene was "astoni****ng."
'Self-satisfied society'
Authorities have been asking how events in the house, situated in a busy
street with shops in the
small industrial town of Amstetten, 80 miles west of Vienna, passed
unnoticed for so long.
Commentator Petra Stuiber wrote in Austria's Der Standard newspaper that
what she termed a rich,
self-satisfied society needed to examine why it was allowed to occur.
April 28: A man in Austria re****tedly confesses to holding his daughter
captive for 24 years, and
fathering her children. NBC's Dawna Friesen re****ts.
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"How is it possible that nobody heard or saw anything? How can it be that
nobody asked
questions?" said Stuiber.
The case has shocked 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.
Fritzl kept his daughter and three of the children in a complex which was
in
some places no more
than 5 feet 6 inches high and contained a padded cell, according to
authorities.
Photographs of the cellar show a narrow passageway leading into other
rooms
that included a
cooking area, with children's drawings on the walls, a sleeping area and a
small bathroom with a
shower.
Fritzl had hidden the entrance to the cell behind shelves and only he knew
the code for the
concrete door.
Emergency hospital visit
The case unfolded when the 19-year-old girl became seriously ill and was
taken to hospital with
severe cramp caused by lack of oxygen. Doctors appealed for her mother to
come forward to give
details of her medical history.
Fritzl brought Elisabeth and her remaining two children out of the cellar,
telling his wife their
"missing" daughter had chosen to return home, police said.
Elisabeth agreed to make a thorough statement to the police after
receiving
assurances she would
have no further contact with her father, who she said abused her from the
age of 11.
Police believe Josef's wife did not know what happened to her daughter
when
she disappeared in
1984.
Fritzl had said Elisabeth had joined a sect and that she had left three of
the children on the
doorstep. He forced Elisabeth to write letters by hand to prove his
claims,
said the police.
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