This is Elisabeth Fritzl, the girl who spent 24 years in captivity in a cellar at the hands of her father, Josef Fritzl.
Elisabeth used to frequently run away and was brought back home by the police, and when she was 18, her father said he needed her help carrying a door downstairs, and he trapped her.
She was put in a makeshift soundproof cellar built by her father with 8 doors to be unlocked before getting in and told their family she had run away to join a religious cult.
He neglected and sexually abused her, telling her if she tried to meddle with the door, she would be electrocuted and gassed if she tried to escape (an empty threat, as there was no gas supply to the basement).
Elisabeth’s mother, Rosemarie Fritzl, had no idea that her daughter was 20 feet underneath the house the entire time.
This is Elisabeth Fritzl, the girl who spent 24 years in captivity in a cellar at the hands of her father, Josef Fritzl.
Elisabeth used to frequently run away and was brought back home by the police, and when she was 18, her father said he needed her help carrying a door downstairs, and he trapped her.
She was put in a makeshift soundproof cellar built by her father with 8 doors to be unlocked before getting in and told their family she had run away to join a religious cult.
He neglected and sexually abused her, telling her if she tried to meddle with the door, she would be electrocuted and gassed if she tried to escape (an empty threat, as there was no gas supply to the basement).
Elisabeth’s mother, Rosemarie Fritzl, had no idea that her daughter was 20 feet underneath the house the entire time.
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