Josef Fritzl: The Monster of Amstetten

The Monster of Amstetten kept his daughter as a basement sex slave for 24 years — fathering several children by her. But that’s only where the weirdness of this case begins.

Wess Haubrich
17 min readMar 11, 2022

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The darkest spawn of hell can sometimes be lurking in harmless, safe, innocent, social disguises. Such was the case of 17-year-old Elisabeth Friztl who was kidnapped, raped 3,000 times, and kept as a sex slave by her own father for 24 years. She would rear several “basement”

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Wess Haubrich

Horror, crime, noir with a distinctly southwestern tinge. Staff writer, former contributing editor; occultist; anthropologist of symbols.