Text | Editor by Chronicler | Chronicler In 2008, a shocking case occurred in a city in Austria called Amstetten. There is a 73-year-old beastly father who imprisoned and sexually abused his biological daughter for 24 years, during which time he also forced her to give birth to s

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In 2008, in a city named Amstetten in Austria , a shocking case occurred.

In the local area, a 73-year-old beastly father imprisoned and sexually abused his biological daughter for 24 years, during which he also forced her to give birth to 7 children. Later, because one of his children was seriously ill and sent to the hospital, the horrifying behavior of this beast father was exposed by the media.

Amstetten Location

Joseph Fritz is this beast father. In the eyes of ordinary people, Joseph is a humble, gentle, kind-hearted and good father and husband. He will also provide support for his rebellious daughter Elizabeth. raising 3 children. How could such a good old man

turn into a demon who raped his daughter? With the in-depth investigation by the police, the unknown evil face of Joseph gradually surfaced...

The Notorious Case of Joseph

Austrian Imprisonment

Austria is located in central Europe, and Amstetten is a city in Austria , the folk customs here are simple and the scenery is pleasant.

Almost no one can imagine that in this quiet town, the trial of a case set off a storm of public opinion...

Joseph was arrested

In March 2009, The trial of the Austrian beast father case was held in Kremlin on the Danube River. Remus District Court is in session.

Before the trial, Joseph underwent a professional psychiatric evaluation. Forensic experts believe that Joseph suffered severe abuse from his mother during his childhood, which gave him a strong desire to control.

A reasonable explanation is that he chose his most beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, as the target of his aggression, probably because this daughter was very strong and stubborn. Forcing his daughter Elizabeth not only allows him to give full play to his animal desires but also gives him unprecedented pleasure and satisfaction.

Forensic doctors also believed that Joseph in his youth

had a clear mind and clear thinking. He knew exactly what he was doing and was fully capable of criminal responsibility.

He clearly knew what kind of criminal law he would face, so he would deliberately avoid some questions during the trial of the case. He would even slyly joke with the judge, "Don't be pretentious, brother."

On the day of the trial, Joseph was among a group of people He arrived at the courthouse surrounded by bodyguards whom Joseph had specially hired for his own safety, fearing that the excited crowd would attack him in a rage.

Bodyguards protected Joseph

Facing the first day of the trial, Joseph seemed indifferent. He hired a professional lawyer to defend him. The lawyer said:

"Joseph did not cross any boundaries. He just did what a father would do - protect His own daughter, and firmly denied all the accusations made by the prosecutor. "

However, the situation changed drastically on the second trial day. On trial day, the judge played video testimony from daughter Elizabeth. For the purpose of protection, the court collected testimony in the form of video and did not disclose it to the general public.

After watching this 11-hour video, Joseph suddenly frowned, lowered his head and remained silent. When he spoke again, his attitude changed 180 degrees.

Joseph and his bodyguard

Joseph changed his tough attitude in the past and finally admitted in court: "Maybe it is possible, it is what my daughter said in the video."

Because Joseph's conscience found out and he quickly confessed, the court concluded on the fourth day A verdict was rendered.

On March 19, 2009, Joseph Fletschler was convicted of illegal imprisonment, slavery, rape, murder, incest and other crimes. Eight members of the collegial panel unanimously sentenced Joseph Fletschler to life imprisonment .

There is no death penalty in Austria, and life imprisonment is the most severe punishment in Austria.The moment he heard the verdict was handed down, Joseph did not even consult with his lawyer, but loudly repeated three times: "I accept the verdict, let me go to hell!"

Joseph in court

Prison life

In 2022, the district court decided, Moving Joseph from the criminally insane area to the general prison system means that after serving 15 years, Joseph will be able to apply for early release.

But local prosecutors were determined not to allow one of Europe's most notorious criminals to walk free.

Joseph in prison

Now, the High Court has taken over the case and arranged for experts to conduct a health examination on him. If experts judge the 86-year-old to be "of sound mind", he could be released as early as 2024.

In this regard, Deputy District Court President Ferdinand Schuster said:

The expert’s opinion is expected to be issued before the end of January 2022. Although Fritzl has the opportunity to receive a certificate that he has no health problems, the judge subsequently The chances of granting him freedom are slim.

Joseph in prison

It is understood that Joseph spent most of his time in prison separately from other prisoners. He was withdrawn and did not like to talk to others, so he spent most of his time in solitary confinement. There were also media reports in 2019 that Fritzl, who was 84 years old at the time, developed symptoms of dementia and his mental health was gradually deteriorating.

Meanwhile, Elisabeth, who has not had any contact with her father since his imprisonment, lives in an unknown part of Austria under a new alias.

Joseph and Elizabeth's mother

Joseph's family

In 1935, Joseph Fritz was born in a town called Amstetten in Austria. When Joseph was four years old, his father abandoned him and his mother, and Joseph became a It was his mother's tool to vent her anger, and he spent the whole day in fear.

Sometimes Joseph was beaten with blood by his mother. He choked and prayed to his mother, hoping that she would let him live. Unexpectedly, he was insulted and ridiculed by his mother: "You are a Satan, a good-for-nothing thing."

In this kind of Joseph, who grew up in such an environment, although he was well-dressed on the outside, was already twisted in his heart.

When Joseph grew up, he pursued a career desperately. He worked as an electrical engineer , and later served as a director of a concrete manufacturing company. Therefore, he had a wide network of contacts, and many government officials had been friends with him for many years.

Joseph and Rosemary husband and wife

In the eyes of outsiders, Joseph has long since escaped the shadow of childhood, but for him, the only thing that has grown more and more with the passage of time is his own ambition.

In 1956, 21-year-old Joseph and 17-year-old Rosemary got married. They had 7 children, including the most beautiful Elizabeth.

In the eyes of neighbors and others, Joseph is a very qualified husband. He is gentle and considerate, humble and courteous to others, and the family gets along very harmoniously.

Joseph was with his friends

but behind closed doors, Joseph often beat and scolded his wife whenever he disagreed. Even when his wife was pregnant, he did not know how to restrain himself and even intensified his behavior. Rosemary endured all this in silence and never mentioned it to anyone.

The children are all very afraid of this extremely controlling father. As long as they see John's angry lips, they will stop making noises and go back to the house to stay quietly. Even so, they will still get angry if they are not careful. He was severely beaten by his father.

Joseph's wife and children

The most beautiful daughter

However, in this suffocating family atmosphere, a "thorn" appeared in Joseph's family - his daughter Elizabeth.

Elizabeth used to be like other girls, with dreams and innocence, but unfortunately she had a father who solved problems violently.

Joseph would strictly control his daughter's life. He often read Elizabeth's diary privately and searched her personal belongings.

In addition to going to school, Joseph forcefully kept Elizabeth under his nose and did not allow her to leave his sight. If friends from school showed up, he would violently chase them away.

Elizabeth in her teenage years

Joseph even harassed and molested his daughter while his wife was not at home. In Joseph's words: "It's not a big deal."

Faced with her father's various ugly behaviors, Elizabeth began to gradually rebel. She learned to smoke, drink, spend nights out, and even tried to run away from home.

In 1983, 17-year-old Elizabeth was tired of a life in which her father controlled her destiny. She chose to run away from home with her best friends and fled to the capital, , Vienna..

Elizabeth in Girlhood

Unfortunately, the two girls were caught by the local police as soon as they arrived in Vienna and were delivered into the hands of Joseph.

This run away also made Joseph more "interested" in Elizabeth, the "problem girl". He made up his mind to "protect" his daughter from "learning bad things" from the gangsters outside.

The girl thought she would start a new life when she returned home, but unexpectedly she fell into an endless abyss.

Elizabeth

When Elizabeth was a teenager, Joseph got approval to renovate the basement with the help of official friends. There are eight doors in the basement, one of which weighs one ton.

One of the secret doors is made of reinforced concrete and slides open on a steel track. The entire underground secret room is small, has no glass, and is only about 1.6 meters high. The bathroom, living room, bedroom, etc. are fully equipped, and there is even a TV. The secret room door is hidden behind the cupboard .

The dark basement

This transformed secret room later became a nightmare that imprisoned Elizabeth for 8642 days.

On August 29, 1984, Joseph told Elizabeth that he needed her help installing a door in the basement. Elizabeth would not have thought of her father's drunkenness. This year, she was just 18 years old.

18-year-old Elizabeth

She followed her father to the basement, and then she was fascinated by her father and fell unconscious. When she woke up, she found herself trapped in the basement and her father was missing.

She shouted for help, hoping that her family upstairs could hear her. But after the renovation, the basement has become two worlds, and the basement has become a purgatory on earth.

The next day, she waited for her father, but his hands and feet were tightly handcuffed. Next, Joseph turned on the light and brutally violated his own daughter.

The basement environment

Elizabeth was completely reduced to a tool for Joseph to vent his sexual desires. Joseph would come to the basement almost every night, and then rape and abuse his daughter in a cruel and perverted way. This behavior was repeated about three thousand times.

No one knows that Joseph is a well-dressed beast who violates his daughter at night, but he is still the humble and elegant gentleman during the day.

In order to cover up his actions, Joseph personally went to the police station to report the case, claiming that his daughter was missing and must have followed the bad example of those bad people and ran away from home again.

The environment in the basement

He then returned to the basement and forced his daughter to write a letter: the letter said that she was tired of family life, so she chose to run away from home and asked her parents and the police not to find her.

When the police came to Elizabeth's home again to investigate, her father Joseph told the police that no one knew where she had gone, but she had previously mentioned that she had joined a cult organization.

Because there was no trace of Elizabeth at all, and she had run away from home before, the police just went through the motions and ignored the matter.

One of the rooms

gave birth to 7 children

Such a big thing as Elizabeth's disappearance was successfully concealed by Joseph. At this time, she was living a dark life in the basement.

Not only that, the perverted Joseph believed that the more children he and Elizabeth had, the more "slaves" he would have, and the more Elizabeth would be unable to do without him. So Joseph did not stop his violence.

Around 1988, 22-year-old Elizabeth became pregnant. Joseph forced Elizabeth to finish the birth in the basement by herself. He tossed her a fertility guide and a pair of scissors.

The strong Elizabeth gave birth to her first child in an extremely crude environment, enduring pain that could tear a person apart.

In the following days, Elizabeth gave birth to 7 children one after another.

In February 1990, son Stefan was born;

In August 1992, daughter Lisa was born;

In February 1994, daughter Monica was born;

In April 1996, Alexander and Michael were born;

In December 2002, son Felik was born. Si was born.

Joseph also expanded the bunker by two rooms in 1993, adding shower facilities and some daily necessities.

In addition, Joseph once again forced Elizabeth to write a letter home, saying that the cult she belonged to did not allow her to keep the child and that she could not raise it alone, so she gave the child to her parents to raise. Then Joseph brought Monica, Lisa and Alexander to Living upstairs.

The three children who were brought to the ground

The other three children were allowed to stay in the cellar with Elizabeth. Joseph did not allow the three children in the basement to go out. They had never seen the sun or rain.

Despite being in hell, Elizabeth still insisted on giving lessons to the children, teaching them how to read and write. She also used the TV set that Joseph placed in the basement to teach the children about the outside world through TV programs.

Joseph and Elizabeth

The discovery of the truth

April 19, 2008 Elizabeth's ordeal finally ended in April 2008, when one of their children, Kerstin, fell into a coma and was taken to hospital after it was revealed by doctors.

At that time, doctors discovered that Elizabeth's 19-year-old eldest daughter Kerstin was malnourished and had tooth decay. At the same time, Kirsten also showed symptoms that doctors could not identify and was suspected of suffering from a genetic disease. Therefore, the hospital tried to retrieve her file from the medical system in order to prescribe the right medicine.

Kirstin was sent to this municipal hospital for treatment. This was the first time she left the basement.

However, during the process of searching for information, the doctors were surprised to find that there was no medical record of this patient in the entire district.

She has no social security number and no medical records. In other words, this person is not found in the official system.

So, the hospital immediately found Joseph to ask about the situation. What puzzled the doctors was that Joseph was extremely arrogant and hesitant to answer the doctors' questions. He just hoped that doctors could treat Kirsten so he could take her home quickly.

The doctors called the police in panic, and the police quickly launched an investigation. Joseph told the police that Kirsten, who was sent to the hospital, was the child of his daughter Elizabeth, who had been missing for 24 years.

He found the child at the door of his home. There was a note left by Elizabeth beside the child, which basically said: His daughter's disease is not something he can cure himself, so please ask your parents to take care of her.

The famous doctor who conducted a mental evaluation on Joseph is often mistaken for Elizabeth after being rescued on the Internet.

The hospital and the police expressed doubts about Joseph's statement. Subsequently, the police issued a missing person notice on the TV station, hoping that the missing Elizabeth could explain her daughter's situation in order to save Kirsten's life.

Elizabeth, who was in the basement, saw this missing person notice on TV. With excitement in her heart, she kept begging Joseph to let her go to the hospital to explain her condition.

Five days after the missing person notice was released, Joseph finally agreed to the request and took Elizabeth to the hospital.

htmlElizabeth shocked everyone when she reappeared after 324 years. Now she is 42 years old. Not only does her face no longer have the luster of a girl, she is even 20 years older than her peers.

Media simulated portrait of Elizabeth

Due to severe malnutrition, she has not seen the sun all year round. Her hair has turned white, her skin is so pale that it is almost transparent, and her eyes are full of fear. The police took Joseph and Elizabeth back to the police station for separate interrogation. After a long silence, Elizabeth finally told the police the whole truth.

She said that she had not joined any "sect" over the years, but was imprisoned in the basement of her home by her father Joseph, and suffered repeated abuse and sexual assault by his father.

After hearing this, the police immediately rushed to Joseph's house and rescued the other two children who were still trapped in the basement. In addition, everyone in the family was rushed to the hospital for psychological treatment.

On the way to the hospital, his youngest son Felix clung to the car window, curiously observing the world that once only existed on television.

The house where Joseph's family lived

Conclusion

His house had about 100 tenants during those years, but no one noticed anything strange in the basement. The reason was that Joseph had repeatedly warned the tenants not to go near the basement.

There was a tenant named Leitner who lived in the room above the dungeon for four years. His pet dog barked every time he passed by the basement or saw Joseph. Although Leitner found it strange, he never thought more about it.

In fact, Elizabeth did ask for help. At first, she kept banging on the house and making some noise.

There was a tenant who had been renting in the same house for 12 years. After hearing the sound, he said to Joseph: "Did you hear any strange noises?"

After hearing this, Joseph told his neighbors that the reason for the abnormal noise was because the gas heating system had malfunctioned. It has been repaired now and will not happen again in the future. He even said this: "This house will make history one day."

On April 26, 2008, Joseph's crimes were finally exposed to the sun, and he was arrested that day.

At this point, the notorious Austrian beast father case has finally surfaced.

There may be dark areas in the world, but only when we bravely step out of the gloom can we see the sun and regain the light.

sincerely hopes that safety protection mechanisms for women can be improved around the world, and that women who have been violated and harassed can bravely stand up and take up legal weapons to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.

Today, with the improvement of our country's laws, the protection of women has been strengthened. It is rare for people to be harassed and violated. I hope there are more righteous people around us, and I hope this sky is full of light everywhere.