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Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their familythough one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been lost to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth''s children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls'' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeth''s disappearance

For twenty-seven years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon, complete with sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she would eventually give birth to a total of seven of Josef''s children. One died in infancyand the other three were raised alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day.

Then, in 2008, one of Elisabeth''s children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had ever gone outsideand soon, the truth about h

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      Publisher St. Martin's Publishing Group
      Published 3 March 2009
      ISBN-13 9780312947866
      978-0312947866
      ISBN-10 0312947860
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their familythough one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been lost to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth''s children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls'' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeth''s disappearance

      For twenty-seven years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon, complete with sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she would eventually give birth to a total of seven of Josef''s children. One died in infancyand the other three were raised alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day.

      Then, in 2008, one of Elisabeth''s children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had ever gone outsideand soon, the truth about h

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