Did US Fritzl kill kidnapped victim's male kids?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.
US Fritzl linked to prostitute serial killingsAugust 31st, 2009 LONDON - Police suspect that 'American Fritzl' Phillip Garrido terrified Jaycee Lee Dugard by taking her to sites where he may have killed 10 prostitutes. Garrido kept Jaycee as his sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her.
Cops missed chance to rescue girl from "American Fritzl" three years agoAugust 29th, 2009 LONDON - It has been revealed that cops missed a chance to rescue kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard from Phillip Garrido, nicknamed the "American Fritzl". Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, had held Dugard, 29, against her will for 18 years, and the fiend even fathered two daughters, now aged 11 and 15, with her, reports the Sun.
Fritzl to stay in solitary for life for his safetyJune 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.
'British Fritzl' wins cut in minimum jail termMay 20th, 2009 LONDON - A British man who repeatedly raped his two daughters and made them pregnant 19 times has won a cut in his minimum jail term. The 56-year-old was due to serve a minimum term of 19 and a half years after receiving 25 life sentences for a campaign of abuse spanning more than quarter of a century, starting when his children were eight and 10.
Fritzl bombards family with 'meet me' callsApril 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.
Now, 'Italian Fritzl' who hid and raped daughter for 25 years emergesMarch 28th, 2009 LONDON - A man, dubbed 'Italian Fritzl', and his son have been accused of the serial rape of their daughters. Cops have revealed that Michele Mongelli, 64, kept his daughter prisoner and brutally raped her for 25 years.
'Remorseful' Fritzl wanted to make life 'pleasant' for dungeon familyMarch 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.
Fritzl moved to CCTV cell to stop suicide attemptsMarch 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.
'Fritzl's modern prison includes gym, provides choir and tennis classes'March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is expected to chose a former nunnery converted into a comfortable modern prison as the place in which he will serve his life sentence. The 74-year-old has been jailed for murder, rape, enslavement, coercion and incest after caging his daughter in a rat-infested dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children by her, six of whom survived.
Elisabeth Fritzl wants her dad 'to rot behind bars'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.
Trial of 'Polish Fritzl' begins day after dungeon dad's convictionMarch 21st, 2009 LONDON - A day after Josef Fritzl's case came to a close in Austria, the trial of a 46-year-old man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter opened in northern Poland. Krzysztof B, dubbed the "Polish Fritzl", took the stand on Friday after he allegedly raped his daughter repeatedly and kept her prisoner for six years.
Dungeon dad could be free in just 14yrsMarch 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.
Dungeon dad to be probed over string of unsolved murdersMarch 20th, 2009 LONDON - Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl will be questioned over a string of unsolved murders, as police now want to uncover the details of his evil crimes in the last forty years. The Austrian engineer is being suspected for at least four murders as well as missing persons' cases stretching back more than four decades, in which three of the victims were teenage girls.
Fritzl claims his daughter wanted him to kidnap a cellar pal for herMarch 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.