Description

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their familythough one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been lost to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeths children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeths disappearance

For twenty-seven years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon, complete with sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she would eventually give birth to a total of seven of Josefs children. One died in infancyand the other three were raised alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day.

Then, in 2008, one of Elisabeths children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had ever gone outsideand soon, the truth about her background, her familys captivity, and Josefs unspeakable crimes would come to light.

John Glatts Secrets in the Cellar is the true story of a crime that shocked the world.

Author: John Glatt
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: St. Martins True Crime
Published: 03/03/2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 6.76h x 4.26w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780312947866
Language: English