1997Ī third infant, the surviving twin, Alexander, 'appears' at the house, this time aged around 15 months, and is taken in like the previous two, to be raised by Fritzl and his wife.Īccording to media reports Fritzl goes to Thailand for four weeks, one of several such trips. The body is allegedly taken away and disposed of in an incinerator by Fritzl. Twins are born to Elisabeth but one is said to have died shortly after birth. Along with Lisa, she is raised by Fritzl and his wife. 15 December 1994Ī second baby girl, Monika, appears in exactly the same circumstances. Ī nine-month old baby, Lisa, is 'discovered' outside the family home in Amstetten, along with a letter purportedly from Elisabeth saying she cannot care for her. Another child, Stefan, is born soon after, and is also kept underground. Kerstin, the first of seven reported children, is secretly born (exact date unknown) and raised in the cellar. Rosemarie, the mother, is unaware of the truth, Elisabeth later tells police. A month later they receive a letter in Elisabeth's handwriting, purportedly from her, saying they should not try to look for her. 29 August 1984Įlisabeth is reported missing by her parents.

28 August 1984įritzl lures Elisabeth into the cellar of their house, drugging and handcuffing her before locking her up for the next 24 years. 'He wanted somebody who only belonged to him, somebody who could not be taken from him and whom he had no fear of losing,' she said.ĭr Kastner said Fritzl had told her: 'As soon as I left the cellar it was gone from my mind.' But, she added: 'When he went to bed and when he woke up, he felt bad because he knew he was breaking every rule in the book.'Īustria was swamped with conflicting reports about whether Elisabeth Fritzl appeared in a closed court in person on Tuesday to witness her father's reaction to a videotaped interview played to jurors in which she gave an account of her ordeal.Ĭourt officials refused to confirm or deny claims she had appeared but intimated that she had been present on Tuesday by insisting she had definitely not been in court yesterday.Elisabeth runs away from home. His suppressed feelings and his failed relationship with his mother made him want to compensate by controlling somebody completely. Aged seven, during the Second World War, he was sent down to the cellar of their home alone during air raids and was terrified he would go back up to find his mother dead.ĭr Kastner said Fritzl developed a technique for dealing with his constant fear by pushing his emotions into the 'cellar of his soul'. Fritzl, she said, grew up in a home ruled by fear. Fritzl's only value to her was as proof that she was not barren. She said Fritzl's mother had feared she was infertile and had simply sought out a man to have sex with to prove that she could have children. Yesterday, Dr Adelheid Kastner, the psychiatrist who had assessed Fritzl following his arrest, drew a disturbing psychological profile of the rapist who has been dubbed Austria's 'Incest Monster'. His crimes only came to light last April when one of their daughters became seriously ill and Fritzl was persuaded to take her to hospital. During that time, he fathered seven children through the incestuous relationship.

He is estimated to have raped her 3,000 times. Fritzl kidnapped and drugged Elisabeth in 1984, when she was 18 and kept her incarcerated in a cellar beneath his home in the Austrian town of Amstetten for 24 years.

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