Where is Elisabeth Fritzl now? What happened to Her and latest updates – A horrific account of a man who had secretly imprisoned his daughter in his basement for 24 years surfaced in 2008. The daughter endured numerous assaults and sexual abuse throughout this time. The public is still interested in learning what happened to the girl who earned the nickname “the girl in the basement” more than ten years later. What is Elisabeth Fritzl’s current whereabouts and state?

RephraseElisabeth Fritzl spent 24 years imprisoned in their home’s basement, where she was exposed to intolerable crimes by her own father. Since the temperatures were so oppressively hot and humid throughout the summer in the underground lair, she found it very challenging to cope with it.

Elisabeth Fritzl profile summary

Name	Elisabeth Fritzl
Known as	The girl in the basement and the victim of the Fritzl case
Date of birth	April 6, 1966
Age	57 years old
Place of birth	Amstetten District, Austria, Europe
Birth sign	Aries
Nationality	Austrian
Ethnicity	White
Parents	Rosemarie and Josef Fritzl
Spouse	Thomas Wegner
Children	Kerstin Fritzl, Stefan Fritzl, Alexander Fritzl, Monika Fritzl, Felix Fritzl, Michael Fritzl (died in 1996), Lisa Fritzl
Height	5 feet, 6 inches
Weight	55 kg
Hair colour	Golden brown
Eye colour	Blue
Josef Fritzl Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment

Who is Elisabeth Fritzl?

Elisabeth Fritzl, who is widely known as the “girl in the basement,” was born on April 6, 1966, in Austria to Josef Fritzl and Rosemarie Fritzl. She grew up in a family of six siblings, consisting of three brothers and three sisters. Being the youngest, she was particularly close to her parents, especially her father.

Elisabeth had aspirations of becoming a waitress and had even completed a course in Vienna, but unfortunately, her dreams were shattered.

Elisabeth is a survivor of kidnapping and was subjected to unspeakable horrors by none other than her own father, Josef Fritzl. She endured unimaginable physical and sexual abuse at his hands.

During her captivity, Elisabeth gave birth to seven children, but tragically, one of them did not survive. Shockingly, all of the children were fathered by her abductor, Josef Fritzl.

Currently, Fritzl is 85 years old and is serving a life sentence in a specialized prison unit for the criminally insane at Austria’s Krems-Stein prison.

Elisabeth Fritzl’s story?

Elisabeth’s story is one of the saddest as she was imprisoned by his father, who also sexually abused her. So, how did it start?

The girl in the basement went missing on August 28, 1984, when she had just turned 18. Worried, her mother filed a missing person’s report to determine her daughter’s whereabouts. However, a letter came allegedly from Elisabeth stating that she had grown tired of home and had run away.

According to her father’s statement to the police, he didn’t know where she might have gone but had likely joined a religious cult. He stated that she had mentioned such a story before.

Unknown to everyone, Josef Fritzl had imprisoned her daughter in the basement of their house and was just 20 feet below. Josef tricked her daughter into the cellar on August 28, 1984, when he asked her to help fix the door.

The basement was Elisabeth’s new home for the next 24 years, and her father was the only thing she would see. Josef continuously fed lies to his wife and the police. As a result, the police’s investigation didn’t bring any leads, and the case ran cold.

Over the years, Josef sexually assaulted her daughter, and she would get pregnant. She got her first child in August 1988 and had another child two years later. The two children, Kerstin and Stefan, stayed in the basement with their mother for the duration of their imprisonment. Elisabeth Fritzl gave birth to five more children over the next 24 years.

Escape from captivity

In a shocking turn of events, after 24 years of imprisonment, Josef finally released Elisabeth from the basement on April 26, 2008, allowing her to see her daughter for the first time in over two decades. This event led to the unraveling of the horrific truth that Josef had hidden from the world for so long.

Elisabeth bravely recounted her entire story to the authorities, and as a result, her father was arrested. Following Josef’s arrest, all the imprisoned children were finally freed, and Rosemarie Fritzl, Josef’s wife and mother of the children, left the family home.

Where is Elisabeth Fritzl now?

Following her harrowing 24-year ordeal, Elisabeth Fritzl now lives under a new identity in a top-secret location known only as “Village X”. Her safety is of utmost importance, and her new home is equipped with round-the-clock CCTV surveillance, while police officers patrol every corner to ensure her safety.

Elisabeth’s family has made it clear that they do not grant interviews or allow any media coverage of her life. Therefore, the public knows very little about her current whereabouts and well-being, and her last known photograph was taken when she was only 16 years old.

After the story of Elisabeth Fritzl’s imprisonment came to light, her father, Josef, was arrested and tried in March 2009 in Sankt Polten. Judge Andrea Humer presided over the trial, and Josef was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 15 years.

What happened to the mother of Elisabeth Fritzl?

Rosemarie Fritzl was utterly stunned to discover that her own daughter had been held captive in the basement of their family home in Amstetten, Austria, for over two decades. She had no knowledge of the atrocities that had taken place beneath her feet, and the revelation was a profound shock to her.

After the horrific truth came to light, Rosemarie was taken into care and is now believed to be residing in Linz, a city only 30 miles away from her previous home. However, her relationship with her daughter Elisabeth was strained after her release. Elisabeth was devastated that her mother had believed Josef’s story of her running away, and their relationship never fully recovered.

Who are Josef Fritzl’s children with Elisabeth?

During her 24 years of captivity in the basement, Elisabeth Fritzl gave birth to a total of seven children, all fathered by her own father. Her first child, Kerstin, was born on August 30, 1988, while Stefan was born on February 1, 1990.

The third child, Lisa, arrived on August 29, 1992, and the fourth child, Monika, was born on February 26, 1994. Elisabeth gave birth to twins, Michael and Alexander, on April 28, 1996, but tragically, only Alexander survived. Her youngest child, Felix, was born on December 2, 2002.