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Edited by | Tomber
In 2008, in an Austrian city called Amstetten, a horrific case occurred.
A 73-year-old animal father imprisoned and sexually abused his biological daughter for 24 years, during which time he forced her to give birth to seven children. Later, because a child was seriously ill and sent to the hospital, the beast father's terrifying behavior was exposed by the media.
Amstetten geographical location
Joseph Fritz is the father of the beast, in the eyes of ordinary people, Joseph is a humble and gentle, kind and good father, good husband, he will also raise 3 children for the rebellious daughter Elizabeth.
How does such a good old man incarnate as a demon who raped his daughter? As the police investigate deeper, Joseph's unknown evil face gradually surfaces...
The infamous Joseph
Austrian captivity case
Austria is located in the middle of Europe, and Amstetten is a city in Austria, where the people are simple and the scenery is pleasant.
Almost no one can think of this quiet town, because the trial of a case has set off a terrifying wave of public opinion...
Joseph was arrested
In March 2009, the Austrian Father of The Beast case was heard at the Krems-sur-Danube District Court.
Before the trial, Joseph underwent a professional psychiatric examination. Forensic experts concluded that because Joseph had been severely abused by his mother during his childhood, he developed a strong desire to control.
The reasonable explanation is that he chose the most beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, as the target of aggression, probably because this daughter is very strong and stubborn. Forcing his daughter Elizabeth not only allows him to give full play to his bestiality but also gets unprecedented pleasure and satisfaction.
Joseph in his youth
The forensic doctor also believed that Joseph had a clear mind, a clear mind, a clear idea of what he was doing, and fully capable of criminal responsibility.
He was clear about what kind of criminal law he would face, so he would deliberately avoid some issues during the trial of the case, and he would even slyly joke with the judge, "Don't pretend to be garlic, man." ”
On the day of the trial, Joseph came to the courthouse surrounded by a group of bodyguards, who had been specially hired by Joseph to protect himself, and he feared that the agitated crowd would attack him in anger.
Bodyguards protect Joseph
Faced with the first day of trial, Joseph appeared indifferent and hired a professional lawyer to defend him, who said:
"Joseph didn't cross the line, he just did what a father would do — protect his daughter and adamantly deny all the allegations made by prosecutors."
However, the situation changed dramatically on the second trial day. On trial day, the judge played video testimony from her daughter Elizabeth. For the purpose of protection, the court collected testimony in the form of a video and did not disclose it to the general public.
After watching the 11-hour video, Joseph suddenly frowned, bowed his head in silence, and when he spoke again, his attitude took a 180-degree turn.
Joseph and the bodyguard
Joseph changed his usual tough attitude and finally admitted in court: "Maybe, it is just what my daughter said in the video." ”
As Joseph's conscience discovered and quickly confessed guilt, the court handed down its verdict on the fourth day.
On March 19, 2009, Joseph Fritzler was convicted of unlawful imprisonment, slavery, rape, murder, and incest. Eight members of the collegial panel unanimously ruled that Joseph Friedsler would be sentenced to life in prison.
There is no death penalty in Austria, and life imprisonment is the most severe punishment in Austria. At the moment of hearing the verdict, Joseph did not even consult with the lawyer, and repeated it three times: "I accept the verdict, let me go to hell!" ”
Joseph in court
Prison life
In 2022, the District Court decided to transfer Joseph from the area of the criminally mentally ill to the general prison system, which means that after serving 15 years in prison, Joseph will be able to apply for early release.
But local prosecutors are adamantly opposed to this, and they cannot allow one of Europe's most notorious criminals to go unpunished.
Joseph in prison
Now, the High Court has taken over the case and arranged for specialists to conduct a health examination of him. If experts judge the 86-year-old as "mentally sound," he will be released as early as 2024.
In this regard, the vice president of the District Court, Ferdinand Schuster, said:
The experts' opinion is expected to be reached by the end of January 2022, and although Fritzl has the opportunity to receive a certificate of no health problems, the chances that the judge will subsequently grant him freedom are slim to none.
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 people, so he was held in solitary confinement for most of his time. In 2019, there were also media reports that Fritzer, who was 84 years old at the time, developed dementia symptoms and his mental health was gradually deteriorating.
Elizabeth, meanwhile, who has not had any contact with her father since he was imprisoned, lives under a new pseudonym in an unknown part of Austria.
Joseph and Elizabeth's mother
Joseph's family
Joseph Fritz was born in 1935 in a town in Austria called Amstetten, and when Joseph was four years old, his father abandoned him and his mother, and Joseph became a tool for his mother's anger, and he spent his days in fear.
Sometimes Joseph was beaten to the ground by his mother, and he begged his mother to let him have a way to live, but he did not expect to get his mother's insults and ridicule: "You are a Satan, a useless thing."
Joseph, who grew up in this environment, although he was well dressed on the surface, but his heart had long been twisted.
Joseph grew up desperately pursuing a career, working as an electrical engineer and later as a director of a concrete manufacturing company, so he was extremely well-connected, and many government officials were friends with him for many years.
Joseph and Rosemary
To outsiders, Joseph had long since escaped the shadow of his childhood, but for him, the only thing that grew with the passage of time was his own ambition.
In 1956, 21-year-old Joseph and 17-year-old Rosemary married each other, and the two had seven 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, and the family is very harmonious.
Joseph was with friends
But behind closed doors, Joseph often scolded his wife without a word, and even during her pregnancy, she did not know how to restrain or even intensify. Rosemary endured all this in silence and never mentioned it to the outside world.
The children were very frightened of this very controlling father, and as soon as they saw John Fu angry and skimmed his lips, they would stop making a fuss and obediently return to the house to stay quietly, even so, even if they were not careful, they would still be beaten by their father.
Joseph and his wife and children
The most beautiful daughter
However, in this suffocating family atmosphere, there is a "thorn head" in the Joseph family - daughter Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, like any other teenage girl, is dreamy and naïve, but unfortunately she has a violent father who solves problems.
Joseph would keep a tight rein on his daughter's life, often flipping through Elizabeth's diary and searching her personal belongings.
In addition to going to school, Joseph forcefully imprisoned Elizabeth under his nose and did not allow her to leave his sight. If a friend from school comes to the door, he will rudely drive them away.
Elizabeth of Girls' Generation
Joseph even took advantage of his wife's absence to harass and molest his daughter. In Joseph's words: "It's no big deal. ”
In the face of her father's ugly behavior, Elizabeth began to rebel, and she learned to smoke, drink, spend the night outside, and even try to run away from home.
In 1983, 17-year-old Elizabeth, tired of being controlled by her father, chose to run away from home with her girlfriend and flee to the capital, Vienna.
Elizabeth of Girls' Generation
Unfortunately, the two girls were caught by the local police as soon as they arrived in Vienna and handed over to Joseph.
This escape also made Joseph more attentive to this problem girl Elizabeth, and he made up his mind to protect his daughter from learning bad from the outside.
The girl thought that returning home again would start a new life, but who knew that she had fallen into an endless abyss.
Elizabeth
A 24-year cage
In Elizabeth's teens, Joseph was approved to renovate the basement with the help of an official friend. The basement has eight doors, one of which even weighs 1 ton.
One of the hidden doors is made of reinforced concrete and opens by sliding through a steel track. The entire underground chamber is small, glassless, only about 1.6 meters high, and the bathroom, living room, bedroom, etc. are very well set up, and even have a TV set. The door to the chamber of secrets is hidden behind the cupboard.
Dark basement
This transformed chamber of secrets became the nightmare of Elizabeth's 8642 days of captivity.
On August 29, 1984, Joseph told Elizabeth that she needed her help to install a door in the basement. Elizabeth would not have thought of her father's drunken intentions. This year, she was just 18 years old.
Elizabeth, 18 years old
She followed her father to the basement, where she was mesmerized and unconscious. When she woke up, she found herself trapped in the basement while her father was gone.
She cried out for help, hoping her family upstairs would hear it. However, the transformed basement has become two worlds up and down, and the basement has become a purgatory for human beings.
The next day, she waited for her father, but was firmly handcuffed by him, and then Joseph turned on the light and violently violated his own daughter here.
Basement environment
Elizabeth was completely reduced to a tool of Joseph's sexual catharsis, and Joseph would come to the basement almost every night and then rape and abuse his daughter in a cruel and perverted way, an act that was repeated about three thousand times.
What everyone knows is that at night Joseph is a well-dressed beast who violates his daughter, and during the day he is still the good gentleman who is humble and elegant.
In order to cover up his behavior, Joseph personally went to the police station to report the crime, claiming that his daughter was missing, must have learned from those bad people, and ran away from home again.
Basement environment
He then returned to the basement and forced his daughter to write a letter in which she was tired of family life and had chosen to run away from home, telling her parents and the police not to look for her.
When the police came to Elizabeth's house again to investigate, Father Joseph told the police that no one knew where she had gone, but she had mentioned earlier that she had joined a cult.
Because there was no trace of Elizabeth at all, and she had run away from home before, the police only went through the motions and did not deal with the matter.
One of the rooms
Gave birth to 7 children
The fact that Elizabeth had disappeared so big was thus successfully concealed by Joseph. At this time, she was living a dark life in the basement.
Not only that, but the perverted Joseph believes that the more children he has with Elizabeth, the more "slaves" he has, and the more Elizabeth cannot live without him. So Joseph did not stop his atrocities.
Around 1988, 22-year-old Elizabeth became pregnant. Joseph forced Elizabeth to finish the production in the basement herself. He threw her a fertility guide and a pair of scissors.
The strong Elizabeth endured pains in extremely simple circumstances that tore a man apart and gave birth to her first child.
In the days that followed, Elizabeth gave birth to 7 children in succession.
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, his son Felix was born.
Joseph also expanded the bunker with two rooms in 1993, adding showers and some household items.
In addition, Joseph again forced Elizabeth to write to the family, saying that her cult would not let her leave the child, she was unable to raise the child alone, so she gave the child to her parents to raise, and then Joseph took Monica, Lisa and Alexander upstairs to live.
Three children who were taken to the ground
The other 3 children were allowed to stay in the cellar with Elizabeth. Joseph did not allow the 3 children in the basement to go out, they never saw the sun or rain.
Despite being in hell, Elizabeth insisted on teaching her children to read and write. She also used Joseph's television set in the basement to teach the children about the outside world through television.
Joseph and Elizabeth
The discovery of the truth
Elizabeth's suffering finally ended in April 19, 2008, when one of their children, Kerstin, fell into a coma and was exposed by doctors after being taken to the hospital.
At the time, doctors found Elizabeth's 19-year-old eldest daughter, Kerstin, malnourished and her teeth rotten. At the same time, Kirstin also showed some symptoms that doctors could not recognize, and was suspected of having a genetic disease. So the hospital tried to retrieve her file in the medical system so that the right medicine could be prescribed.
Kirstin was taken to the municipal hospital for treatment. It was the first time she had left the basement
However, in the process of searching for information, the doctors were surprised to find that there was no record of the patient's visit in the whole area.
She has no Social Security number and no medical record file. That is, there is no such person in the official system.
So the hospital immediately approached Joseph to inquire about the situation. To the bewilderment of the doctors, Joseph was extremely arrogant and stoic about the doctor's questions. He just hoped that the doctor would treat Kirsten so that he could take her home quickly.
The doctors called the police in a hurry, and the police quickly launched an investigation. Joseph told police that Kirstin, 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 the house, and there was a note left by Elizabeth next to the child, to the effect that his daughter's illness was unable to be treated by himself, and he asked his parents to take care of it for him.
The famous doctor who performed the psychiatric examination of Joseph was often mistaken for Elizabeth after being rescued on the Internet
Hospitals and police expressed skepticism about Joseph's claims. Subsequently, the police posted a search notice on television, hoping that the missing Elizabeth would explain the situation of her daughter in order to save Kirstin's life.
Elizabeth, who was in the basement, saw the search notice on television. Excited, she constantly begged Joseph to let her go to the hospital to explain her condition.
Five days after the search notice was issued, Joseph finally agreed to the request and took Elizabeth to the hospital.
Elizabeth, who reappeared 24 years later, shocked everyone. Now that she is 42 years old, her face not only no longer has the luster of a girl, but is even 20 years older than her peers.
A portrait of Elizabeth simulated by the media
Because of severe nutritional disorders and the lack of sunlight all year round, her hair had turned white, her skin was pale to almost transparent, and her eyes were full of fear. The police took Joseph and Elizabeth back to the police station for separate interrogations. After a long silence, Elizabeth finally told the police the whole truth.
She said she did not join 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 her father.
When the police heard about it, they 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, the youngest son, Felix, clings to the car window, curiously observing the world that once existed only on television.
The house where joseph's family lived
epilogue
His house had about 100 tenants in those years, but no one noticed anything strange in the basement. The reason is that Joseph repeatedly warned tenants that they were forbidden to go near the basement.
There was a tenant named Leitner who lived in a room above the dungeon for 4 years. His pet dog barked wildly every time he passed the basement or saw Joseph, and Leitner, though strange, never thought much of it.
Elizabeth did call for help, and at first she kept knocking on the house and making some noise.
A tenant in the same house who had been renting for 12 years heard the voice and said to Joseph, "Did you hear anything unusual?"?
When Joseph heard this, he told his neighbor that the reason for the anomaly was that the gas heating system had failed, and it had been repaired and would not be repeated in the future. He even said something like this: "This house will one day make history." ”
On April 26, 2008, Joseph's crimes were finally exposed to the sun, and he was arrested on the same day.
At this point, the infamous Austrian father of the beast case has finally surfaced.
There may be dark areas in the world, but only when we bravely emerge from the haze can we see the clouds and return to the light.
I sincerely hope that the safety protection mechanism for women can be improved all over the world, and I hope that those women who have been violated and harassed can bravely stand up and take up legal weapons to protect their legitimate rights and interests.
Today, when the mainland law is perfect, the protection of women has always been strengthened, and the people's harassment and infringement have rarely occurred, may there be more righteous people around us, and may this piece of sky be full of light everywhere.