Secrets in the Cellar

English

ISBN: 0312947860

EAN: 9780312947866

Category: Family & Relationships / Abuse / Child Abuse/Social Science / Penology/Family & Relationships / Abuse / General/True Crime / General/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 03/03/2009

Synopsis: Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their familythough one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been lost to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeths children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeths disappearance...For twenty-seven years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon, complete with sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she would eventually give birth to a total of seven of Josefs children. One died in infancyand the other three were raised alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day.Then, in 2008, one of Elisabeths children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had ever gone outsideand soon, the truth about her background, her familys captivity, and Josefs unspeakable crimes would come to light.

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Secrets in the Cellar

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK- A Format Paperback

Height: 0.7 inches

Width: 4.21 inches

Length: 6.7 inches

Weight: 4.59 oz

Pages: 256