She suffered a life marked by incarceration and sexual abuse by her father, Elisabeth Fritzl, for 24 years. The case shocked the world in 2008. To the troubled subject: Joseph Fritzlthey will always call him “The Amstetten Monster”.

Fritzl has been in prison for 16 years and according to Antena 3, Austria is debating the possible release of the now eighty-year-old national.

This man, who was exposed when he was 73 years old, imposed his power and terror on his daughter. He locked her up in the parental home in Amstetten, a city west of Vienna, without the rest of the family members finding out, Spanish media emphasize. He had offspring with Elisabeth by force.

Now his name, and all it entails, is returning to the press, as the proposal is for him to “get out of prison, having served nearly twenty years of his sentence.”

The “Monster of Amstetten” was sentenced “to life imprisonment in a special prison for the mentally ill in Krems, 80 kilometers from Vienna, the capital of Austria.”

Life imprisonment for Josef Fritzl

The cellar of horror in the case of the “Amstetten Monster”

Josef Fritzl kept Elisabeth locked up, subjugated and humiliated in a cellar. He was there for 24 long years.

He got her pregnant several times and had seven children with her. They were born in that gloomy basement, described as a “room of barely 60 square meters, without ventilation or natural light.” One of the babies died 66 hours after birth.

Authorities became aware of Fritzl’s criminal behavior on April 19 when one of Elisabeth’s daughters, 19-year-old Kerstin, was admitted to a hospital with a serious infection.

The Universe, May 2008

The Austrian Josef Fritzl also kept his mother locked up

In El Tiempo they reported on January 16, 2024 that Josef Fritzl’s wife was responsible for raising Elisabeth’s three children. The woman was not suspicious because the deviant “lied to his wife and told her that his daughter had left her children at the doorstep where they lived because she could not care for them.”

Fritzl said about Elisabeth: “He has joined a cult, don’t look for that”, published Diario Sur, in April 2008.

For psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner, the author of her psychological expertise, Fritzl manifested a ‘gigantic desire for power’. He was aware of his actions, he emphasized.

It was published in El Universo that, according to Kastner, “in Fritzl’s pathology the sexual element plays a subordinate role” and that his essential demands refer to “power, dominance and control”, to the point that he tells someone: “I belong “Someone who Fritzl consciously specified in his third daughter, Elisabeth, whom he considered rebellious and whom he wanted to dominate.”

On March 19, 2009, this newspaper reported that Fritzl pleaded guilty to all charges after hearing his daughter Elisabeth’s testimony, presented on video.

The charges for which he stood trial were murder by negligence, slavery, rape, deprivation of liberty, serious coercion and incest, the world press reported.

And when he gets out of prison, where will he go?

The lawyer of ‘The Monster’, Astrid Wagner, believes that Josef Fritzl ‘deeply regrets’ what he did to his daughter and his family. “He has become humble.”

(Josef Fritzl) He is no longer dangerous physically or mentally.

Astrid Wagner, lawyer

The legal expert, Antena 3, has asked the judge to transfer Fritzl to a conventional prison so that he can then be released and spend the rest of his life in a nursing home. (JO)