Timeline 1977: Elisabeth Fritzl claims she was first abused by her father Josef when aged 11.ġ984: Elisabeth is allegedly lured into house cellar, drugged and handcuffed by her father. The story of the family's imprisonment began to unravel a week ago, when Kerstin fell seriously ill with convulsions and was hospitalized. Fritzl told police he burned the infant's body in a furnace. The three children and her mother lived in the home above the cellar.Įlisabeth's eldest child, 19-year-old Kerstin Fritzl, remains in hospital.Ī seventh child died years ago, shortly after birth. He raped her repeatedly, they say, and eventually fathered seven of her children.Įlisabeth and two of her children were reunited Sunday with three of her other children and her mother, Kepplinger said Tuesday. Investigators say Fritzl held his daughter, Elisabeth, captive in a cellar for 24 years. "And it is astonishing how easy it worked, that the children came together, and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and the mother came together." "They met each other on Sunday morning," clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said Tuesday. Meanwhile, family members at the center of the incest and imprisonment case have held an "astonishing" reunion, medical officials said. Paul H said Fritzl was a DIY "genius," constantly extending and building on to the house. "Now that I think of the dungeon down there, I feel really sick in the stomach." They were never allowed downstairs into the cellar, but we never thought anything of it," he told Bild. The kids were well-behaved, however they had a great respect for their father. "We sat out on the terrace and had a really nice evening. Paul H said he had visited Fritzl's house three times, the last in 2005. The pair had also ventured to Oktoberfest.
He told me not to tell his wife." Watch footage of Fritzl on vacation at a Thai beach resort » Then he told me that he has a girlfriend on the side. He got really angry when he realized I saw him. "Once I saw how Josef bought an evening dress and racy lingerie for a very slim woman in Pattaya on the beach. He really loved that," Paul H told the newspaper, which featured video of Fritzl laughing and receiving a massage in Thailand on its Web site.
Once he had a very long massage from a young Thai girl at the beach. "He went without his wife apparently she had to look after the children. Germany's Bild newspaper quoted a holiday companion, identified only as Paul H, who said he and 73-year-old Fritzl traveled to Thailand together twice and spent time in each other's homes.