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May 11, 2022 · On an otherwise ordinary summer day in 1984, a teenage girl named Elisabeth Fritzl followed her father, Josef Fritzl, into the family's byzantine and secretive basement.
- 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, ...
In 2021, Lifetime released a film inspired by the Fritzl case titled Girl in the Basement which is part of Lifetime's "Ripped from the Headlines" feature films. The film is directed by Elisabeth Röhm and it stars Stefanie Scott , Judd Nelson , and Joely Fisher .
Mar 2, 2021 · Girl in the Basement is based on the true story of Elisabeth Fritzl, a young Austrian woman who was imprisoned by her father, Josef Fritzl, from 1984 to 2008.
- Claire Spellberg
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Mar 6, 2021 · Elisabeth Fritzl, who was raped and assaulted by her father, gave birth to seven children while being held in the basement. The Lifetime movie The Girl in the Basement was “inspired by actual...
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,...
May 29, 2023 · Sarah (Stefanie Scott) endures years of trauma, including raising her children by her father in captivity. This element is probably the strongest connection to the case of Josef Fritzl....
