Josef Fritzl ‘wanted to make dungeon a tourist attraction to raise money’
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A man walks into a dungeon…
A court-appointed psychiatrist has determined that Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl was sane when he raped, impregnated and imprisoned his daughter.
Fritzl, 73, wanted to charge visitors to enter his former home in the town of Amstetten in a bid to raise money for his traumatised family.
His sister-in-law, named only as Christine R, revealed his plans in an interview with the Austrian tabloid Oesterreich on Saturday. She said: “He actually wanted to make a tourist attraction out of his house with the dungeon where he kept Elisabeth, and charge ten euros for entrance.
“It is completely mad. The family was supposed to get the proceeds, but, naturally, all of them rejected his ‘business’ proposal.”
He has confessed to imprisoning and sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in a rat-infested, windowless subterranean bunker beneath his home, where she gave birth to seven of his children.
Last week, he was charged with murdering one of the children he fathered by his daughter. Prosecutors say he is responsible for his son’s death as he failed to get proper medical attention when the baby fell ill shortly after birth.
The 73-year-old retired electrician has also been charged with rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery.
His daughter Elisabeth and her six surviving children, aged five to 19, are living together at a secret location and are said to be recovering with the aid of psychological counselling provided by the state.
His trial is expected to begin in March 2009, and Fritzl will be facing a life in prison where he will see the light of day and be pampered unlike his own daughter. You crazy sane mofo!
Cheers Jess for the update.
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