VIENNA - The cellar where Austria’s Josef Fritzl held his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven of her children is being filled to the top with cement concrete, the man appointed to care for Fritzl’s estate said Thursday.
Confirming a report in the daily Kronen Zeitung, Walter Anzboeck said work has started and the basement should be filled with concretein about two weeks.
Fritzl’s daughter, Elisabeth, disappeared from the town of Amstetten in 1984 at age 18, re-emerging in 2008 from the dungeonlike basement chamber where her father had kept her captive.
A court found him guilty of raping her thousands of times. Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a prison psychiatric ward in March 2009.
Front Section, Pages 5 on 06/21/2013