The jury found Fritzl guilty of incest, rape, enslavement and false imprisonment of his daughter Elisabeth. It also found him guilty of two assault charges and murder in the death of the baby, one of ...

Elisabeth Fritzl had seven children with her father, Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned her from 1984 to 2008 Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Police in Italy say they have arrested a grandfather and his son for allegedly sexually abusing the ...

For 24 years, a door in a quiet Austrian basement stayed locked. Behind it — a daughter, her children, and a darkness the ...

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 ...

"We are going to examine every aspect of Josef Fritzl's life, so that we can try to understand why he committed this terrible crime." This was the exquisitely well-intentioned official comment of the ...

Josef Fritzl admitted imprisoning his daughter in an underground bunker for 24 years and forcing her to bear seven children, as his trial started in Austria on Monday. The 73-year-old Austrian ...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’ - Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew ...

(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 ...

The authorities in Sankt Poelten are making the most of their sleepy, baroque town’s misfortune of being the venue for perhaps the most grotesque trial in Austria’s history. A large marquee ...