He Kept His Daughter in the Basement for 24 YEARS | Murder, Mystery & Makeup

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He needs to do a minimum of 24 years in solitary without fresh air or sunlight.

I’ve listened to many stories about this and I still 100% believe that the mom knew and she was just happy that his abuse was being put onto someone else.

The worst thing about this is that he's getting dementia. While Elizabeth and children are living with the memory of it every day, he gets to forget?! Not right.

If I remember correctly Elizabeth herself said that she got through the years by basically Stockholm Syndrome herself. She pretended that her father was her husband and they pretended to be a happy little family. She saw that it made her father happy and she was able to earn nicer treatment from him by doing so. It’s believed that’s also how she was able to convince him to take the daughter to the hospital as well as her later on

You’ve done such a thorough job with the backstory because I’ve never heard anyone mentioning his criminal history before the abduction of his daughter. It definitely makes it even more impossible to believe the wife didn’t know.

I just realized that Bailey has been doing all these videos for years and yet there’s still a ton out there she has to tell us. It’s actually petrifying.

I remember when the news broke about this horrific ordeal - and it's true, the story sticks with you forever. I think about Elizabeth and her children every now and again - and I hope they are doing well. I'm happy that they never leaked any pictures of her or her children after they were released. She deserves peace and privacy. I am also happy to know that there is a whole community around her protecting her privacy. I wish for her to have the best life and live happily. As for Joseph, I never think about him - let him sit in prison and be forgotten.

The mom deserves jail time for neglect. There is no way she did not know, at the very least, that something was off. Even if she was undergoing abuse, that is her child. A mother's job is to protect your child and she failed beyond belief.

The mom knew ain't nobody ever gonna convince me that she didn't know

To all the mothers, if your child is being abused by your man, no matter how small scale, you need to get active to stop that right now.

Thank you so much for covering this case. As someone from Austria this case is very known to me. The worst part nowadays is that he has a lawyer fighting for him to be released due to his old age. I am horrified and pray that he‘ll never be released. The austrian justice system is horrible and has nothing to with justice in my opinion. The fact that there‘s even a slight chance for him to be set free is just wrong.

I struggle to breathe while listening to this. It's the worst, most claustrophobic, soul-crushing, violating thing.

This case has stuck with me for years. Deeply disturbing.

24 years!!!!😢 Like when you said that my immediate thought was- like what if her dad died😮 she would have died down there because nobody knew she was down there

As always, great story telling. I keep forgetting that this story didn't happen 50-100 years ago. the fact that this monster is still alive kills me. And thank you for doing goth justice. As a former goth-adjacent teen, some of the looks that people want to call goth are far from what we/they actually looked like. You killed it.

i've actually heard this story before. But not with all the details, not with any of the picturess, and not with any of the follow ups on him in prison or the well being of the family. Thank you for being so thorough in your research before presenting it to us. it truly does make such a big difference.

as an Austrian myself, it's impossible to ever forget about this case. it's just horrific!

What amazes me the most is the strength elizabeth had to survive. She has the shear strength to make it not 1 day or week or year, but 24 and raise her children with love and dignity. It was truly an amazing feat to learn about the strength of a woman

i’m happy to let everyone know that the entirety of the austria is ignoring his name change and refers to him by Fritzl, because no one is willing to erase people’s horrific memories of him