Now, an ‘Irish Fritzl’ whose wife too had sex with their kids surfaces

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Phillip Garrido, the "American Fritzl", selected Jaycee Lee Dugard as his prey during a "child shopping" trip because she looked cute, his wife has told police in California. Describing the precision that went into the abduction of the then 11-year-old Jaycee, Nancy told cops that they decided not to snatch the pretty blond girl with the gap-toothed grin that day in June 1991 because she was walking through South Lake Tahoe along with few school friends.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - It has emerged that American Fritzl, Phillip Garrido, had brainwashed his wife Nancy and also alienated her from her own family. Nancy's brother, Pete Bocanegra, claims that it has been nearly 30 years since he spoke to his sister, who along with Garrido, has been charged with kidnapping, raping and keeping Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

September 4th, 2009 LONDON - Phillip Garrido, the "American Fritzl", who held a girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her, may have had other children with Jaycee Lee Dugard - and killed them if they were boys, cops have said. A senior detective probing her kidnap, rape and imprisonment in California said: "It doesn't make sense that a healthy young girl not on birth control only conceived twice in that time.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - "American Fritzl" Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy, the alleged abductors of Jaycee Lee Dugard, are said to have been placed on a suicide watch in prison. The couple have been kept in solitary confinement for their own protection, amid fears that other inmates could try to attack them, reports the Telegraph.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - A picture of American Fritzl, Phillip Garrido, and his wife Nancy, taken in 1988, has portrayed them to be a loving couple. The picture of Garrido, then 37, and Nancy, 34, shows them hugging one another as they posed for the camera, soon after he had been released from jail on parole for kidnap and rape.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - Jaycee Lee Dugard survived for 18 years in 'American Fritzl' Phillip Garrido's captivity by becoming his 'second wife'. Carl Probyn, Jaycee's stepfather, Probyn believes that being subservient and teaching the two daughters - Starlite, 15, and Angel, 11 - she had by Garrido to accept him as 'dad' saved her life.

June 5th, 2009 London, June 5 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who raped and imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, will be moved to a jail wing for mentally abnormal offenders to serve his life sentence, it has been announced. The 74-year-old's shift to Stein will "keep him safe from attack" by fellow-convicts, said Austrian prison boss Karl Drexler, reports The Mirror.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who has been convicted of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cellar and fathering her seven children, is begging his family through phone calls to visit him in jail, it has emerged. The calls, however, usually end with kids hanging up on him, prison officials said.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - In his first interview from the prison cell, Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl has claimed that he tried to make life "as pleasant as possible" for the daughter he raped for more than two decades and her kids. The 73-year-old held Elisabeth in a secret dungeon for 24 years.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl has been moved to a cell with CCTV in a bid to stop suicide attempts. Officials in prison fear that the 74-year-old may try to kill himself.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - Dungeon girl Elisabeth Fritzl wants her father Josef to rot in jail, it has emerged. The 42-year-old told her lawyer that she wanted the fiend, who raped her 3,000 times, locked away for the rest of his life.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - A furore has erupted after it was revealed that Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl could released from prison in just 14 years. The 73-year-old engineer, who held his daughter Elisabeth captive as a sex slave in an underground cellar for 24 years, was given life sentence on March 19.

March 17th, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl raped his daughter up to 3,000 times in his home-made dungeon, it has emerged. Yesterday, the full horror of Fritzl's vile crimes were laid bare in a courtroom.

March 14th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has been offered a choice of luxury prisons if he doesn't appeal his sentence. The 73-year-old goes on trial on Monday for repeatedly raping his daughter and caging her for more than two decades, reports The Sun.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years, has claimed that Elisabeth begged him to kidnap a second victim to keep her company. Elisabeth, now 43, spent more than two decades in a home-made dungeon under the family home, reports The Sun.