Josef Fritzl Is Still in Prison for the Crimes Portrayed in Girl in the Basement
Where is Josef Fritz now? Read extra about the Austrian guy whose horrific crimes impressed the Lifetime TV movie ‘Girl in the Basement.’
The tale of Josef Fritzl is now again in the spotlight with Lifetime’s Girl in the Basement. In the TV movie, The Breakfast Club actor Judd Nelson plays a controlling father who imprisons his daughter, played by Insidious: Chapter Three star Stefanie Scott, in his basement.
Girl in the Basement is another installment of Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines,” and certain enough, the plot bears uncanny resemblances to Fritzl’s story. Read on for the main points on the dramatization and Fritzl’s real-life crimes.
Content caution: Child abuse and sexual attack.
What’s ‘Girl in the Basement’ about?
In the Lifetime movie, which premiered on Thursday, March 11, father Don locks daughter Sara in their basement, the place he tortures and abuses her. And Don tells his spouse, Irene — performed via 9-1-1 actress Joely Fisher — that the youngster simply ran away.
“As the years go, Sara provides beginning to a number of kids, alone in the basement,” a Lifetime synopsis explains.
“Don ultimately brings up their youngest son, leaving him on the doorstep for Irene to find with a word from Sara announcing that was once her son and she or he couldn’t care for him, leaving Irene to in the end accept Don’s claims about Sara," it adds. "After a long time of captivity, Sara in the end escapes, and her family learns the devastating truth about what were occurring for over twenty years right beneath their feet.”
What case impressed ‘Girl in the Basement’?
In real existence, Josef Fritzl kept two families in his home in Amstetten, Austria, in keeping with BBC News: Upstairs, he lived along with his wife, with whom he had seven kids. But in his soundproofed cellar, he had imprisoned and raped one in every of his daughters, Elisabeth Fritzl, who gave delivery to seven of his kids.
Fritzl saved the daughter “in a slave-like position by means of kidnapping and locking her up in the cellar… [and] demanding her sexual services and products and taking out her as though she was once his assets,” prosecutors stated.
In 2008, although, investigators uncovered Fritzl’s crimes after one among his daughter’s children had to be hospitalized, and his daughter was once freed after 24 years in the cellar. At the subsequent trial, Fritzl was found responsible of all charges he confronted — together with rape, incest, homicide, and enslavement — and sentenced to lifestyles in prison.
Where’s Josef Fritzl now?
As of 2019, Fritzl was serving his life sentence in Austria’s Stein Prison, in keeping with the Daily Mirror. The newspaper additionally reported that he had changed his identify to Josef Mayrhoff and that he is liked to have dementia.
After interviewing Fritzl in his mobile, British journalist Mark Perry mentioned the man confirmed no regret. “He stored saying, ‘Just look into the cellars of people, you might in finding different families and other ladies down there,'” Perry stated, in step with the Mirror. “He doesn’t consider he’s accomplished anything else improper at all. He thinks it’s a failure of justice and that he’s been wrongly locked up.”
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