The Horrific Case of Elisabeth and Josef Fritzl Like You've Never Seen

The Horrific Story of Elisabeth Fritzl: Captive for 24 Years in an Underground Chamber

The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter repeatedly during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the cellar of the family home.The abuse resulted in the birth of seven children three of them remained in captivity with their mother; one di