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May 11, 2022 · By Gino Orlandini / Updated: May 11, 2022 1:29 pm EST. On an otherwise ordinary summer day in 1984, a teenage girl named Elisabeth Fritzl followed her father, Josef Fritzl, into the family's...
- Gino Orlandini
- The Imprisonment of Elisabeth Fritzl, The “Girl in The Basement”
- Josef Fritzl Impregnates His Own Daughter
- How Elisabeth Fritzl’s Imprisonment Went Unnoticed For Years
- Josef Fritzl’s Horrifying Crimes Come to Light and Elisabeth Gains Her Freedom
- The Aftermath of The Fritzl Case and The Fate of Elisabeth Fritzl Today
On August 28, 1984, Josef Fritzlasked his daughter to come into the basement of the family’s home. He was re-fitting a door to the newly renovated cellar and needed help carrying it. As Elisabeth held the door, Josef fixed it into place. As soon as it was on the hinges, he swung it open, forcing Elisabeth inside and knocking her unconscious with an...
At minimum, Elisabeth Fritzl would be visited by her father in the basement three times a week. Usually, it was every day. For the first two years, he left her alone, keeping her captive. Then, he began to rape her, continuing the nightly visits he had begun when she was just 11 years old. Two years into her captivity, Elisabeth became pregnant, th...
In order to conceal what he was doing from Rosemarie, Josef Fritzl staged elaborate discoveries of the children, often involving placing them on bushes near the home or on the doorstep. Each time, the child would be swaddled neatly and accompanied with a note allegedly written by Elisabeth Fritzl, claiming that she couldn’t take care of the baby an...
Whether Josef Fritzl finally felt the pressure or had a change of heart regarding his daughter’s captivity, the world may never know, but on April 26, 2008, he released Elisabeth from the cellar for the first time in 24 years. She immediately went to the hospital to see her daughter where hospital staff alerted police to her suspicious arrival. Tha...
After the arrest, the children in the cellar were also released and Rosemarie Fritzl fled the home. She had allegedly known nothing about the events taking place right under her feet and Josef backed up her story. The tenants who had lived in the apartment on the first floor of the Fritzl home also never knew what was happening right beneath them, ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Girl in the Basement revolves around Sara (Stefanie Scot), a teenager who is held captive by her father Don (Judd Nelson) in their family basement. Don tells his wife Irene that Sara has run...
Dec 23, 2023 · The 2021 Lifetime movie Girl in the Basement tells the horrifying but true 1984 story of Elisabeth Fritzl, who was imprisoned by her father Josef, in Amstetten, Austria. For 24 years,...
- Sarah Kepins
Mar 2, 2021 · Lifetime’s Girl in the Basement tells the horrific story of Sara (Stefanie Scott), a suburban teen who is imprisoned by her father, Don (Judd Nelson), in the basement of their home. Don...
- Claire Spellberg
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Feb 21, 2024 · Girl in the Basement is a true story and its inspiration has a bittersweet ending, as Elisabeth and her six children now safely live in an undisclosed location while being guarded by Austrian authorities. After the trial for the case was concluded, Elisabeth was given a new name for privacy.
On 28 August 1984, after Elisabeth turned 18, Fritzl lured her into the basement of the family home, saying that he needed help carrying a door. In reality, Fritzl had been converting the basement into a makeshift prison chamber; the door was the last thing he needed to seal it.
