The house where monster Josef Fritzl imprisoned and raped his daughter has been divided into apartments.
The Austrian sex beast imprisoned his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth in his basement after drugging her with an ether-soaked cloth.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent death of one of his young sons.
And now, in Ybbsstrasse, Amstetten, 70 miles from Vienna, the new owners rent the house to young tenants.
They said the mirror: ‘All nine apartments are rented. Among them are young people who have nothing to do with the Fritzl case.’
The Austrian sex beast imprisoned his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth in his basement after drugging her with an ether-soaked cloth. In the photo: the house
And now, in Ybbsstrasse, Amstetten, 70 miles from Vienna, the new owners rent the house to young tenants
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and negligent murder of one of his sons.
The basement where Fritzl’s daughter was imprisoned is now filled with concrete while the garage – through which he smuggled food – has been bricked up.
The underground prison had a heavy metal door hidden behind a shelf in his study.
He had made sure that only he could access it by installing a keyless secret code known only to him.
Elisabeth was manipulated by her father into thinking the door was electrified so that if she tried to flee from the shocking abuse, she would be killed.
His daughter disappeared for 24 years in 1984, while Fritzl told his wife Rosemarie and the police that she had run away to join a cult — even making her write letters to her mother before mailing them from distant cities.
The victim — along with three of the seven children she had with her — was released after telling police she was being held captive during a trip to the hospital.
Their other children, Lisa, Monika and Alexander, then 16, 14 and 12, were raised by Fritzl and his wife after he claimed they were on their doorstep.
He would even take long vacations to places like Thailand, leaving his victims with power outages, rats, overflowing sewage and rotting food in their underground prison.
In 1984, Fritzl had rendered his own daughter, Elisabeth, unconscious with a cloth soaked in ether and buried her in an underground prison. In the photo: the underground chamber
The cellar where Fritzl’s daughter was imprisoned is now filled with concrete, while the garage – through which he smuggled food – has been bricked up
The underground prison had a heavy metal door hidden behind a shelf in his study. He had made sure that only he could access it by installing a keyless, secret code known only to him. Pictured: One of the underground chambers where his daughter was kept
Former mayor of Amstetten, Herbert Katzengruber, told local media: “No one wants to talk about it anymore. I will not comment on it. People are really angry.”
Current mayor Christian Haberhauer said, “No comment, the chapter is closed.”
The thoughts of the rapist were recently revealed in a deeply disturbing memoir, Die Abgründe des Josef F (The Abysses Of Josef F), which was published in Germany with the help of Austrian lawyer Astrid Wagner,
Looking back on his crimes, Fritzl, now 87, said in his memoir, “At first it was just a mind game I played. But I got used to it. The idea, which had previously seemed so absurd, so monstrous to me, took shape.
“One day I knew what I had to do. All that remained was to wait for the right opportunity. On that rainy Saturday morning the time had come. The thought had become action.’
In the book, Fritzl – who has changed his name to Mayrhoff – outlines possible plans to move back to Amstetten and ‘perhaps start a small business there’.
It comes after he recently applied to be transferred to a normal prison. Austrian courts have rejected previous attempts to be transferred to a lower-security prison.
Long before he put that ether-soaked cloth over his daughter’s nose and mouth, Fritzl had a criminal record of sex crimes. In 1967, the year after Elisabeth was born, he broke into a 24-year-old nurse in Linz and raped her with a knife to the throat.