Josef Fritzl

The Fritzl case emerged in 2008 when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl informed investigators in the city of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl. Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter countless times during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the cellar of the family home.