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Follow SBS News to join in the conversation and never miss the latest live updates. This raised the eyebrows of medical staff, who began to question the story and put out an appeal for finding the missing mother.
It was at this moment that police reopened the missing person case associated with Elisabeth. Josef stated that Elisabeth had left to join a cult , but a church official who had knowledge of cults had doubts about the story. The letters seemed to have been dictated and were written in an odd manner.
Elisabeth begged her father to let her go to the hospital to see her daughter, which he allowed. Upon arrival, police were tipped off, and Josef and Elisabeth were taken to the police station for questioning.
Elisabeth refused to talk until the police told her that she would never have to see her father again. Once she was assured of this, she spoke for two straight hours about her captivity. Many of the details would cause revulsion around the world, including the forcing of her father to make her watch pornographic movies, and the repeated times he sexually abused her.
According to Elisabeth, her father would make her recreate the scenes from pornographic movies in front of her children with him. On April 27, , Elisabeth, her children and her mother were taken into care. Josef was arrested and charged with an extensive series of crimes.
On March 16, , Josef Fritzl would go on trial. He would plead guilty on all accounts except grievous assault and murder. During the trial, jurors watched an hour testimony from Elisabeth that was so horrendous, many could only watch for two hours at a time. Four replacement jurors had to be brought in because several jurors could not stand to hear any more evidence.
On March 18, following the testimony from his daughter, Josef changed his plea to guilty on all accounts. On March 19, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Elisabeth was given a new name following the trial, with strict laws to prevent her identity being revealed. She now lives with her six surviving children in a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside, which also cannot be identified and only referred to by the country's media as 'Village X'.
The children, now aged between 18 and 32, sleep in rooms with doors permanently open after undergoing weekly therapy sessions to eliminate the traumas they suffered inside the cellar. Their two-storey family home is kept under constant CCTV surveillance and patrolled by security guards, while any stranger caught lurking nearby can expect to be picked up by police within minutes.
She fell out with her mum Rosemarie but the pair have now reconciled and the rapist's wife enjoys a close relationship with the three kids she raised with him in the upstairs home, The Independent reported in It has also been reported that Elisabeth, now 52, is in a romantic relationship with one of her bodyguards.
All the family members were offered new identities by Austrian authorities and are protected from the media spotlight. In March , further details were revealed about Elisabeth's relationship with her bodyguard. After escaping from her horrific ordeal, she moved to a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside to start a new life at the age of She fell in love with her bodyguard, Thomas Wagner - who is 23 years her junior - after spending months together when she was freed, Oesterreich newspaper reported.
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