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Episode 178 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 3

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the concluding part of this terrifying series, we learn how Josef Fritzl's terrible secret was finally discovered, how his bizarre trial unfolded and what became of Elisabeth and her children.


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0:00.0

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0:14.8

I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Redhanded. And it is the third final and concluding part of our

0:23.4

usif-fritzel series. We can call it a series with that type of show now. We are. And I feel that people have been enjoying

0:30.4

how have we been feeling about this serialized kilt? Kilt? Kilt? I don't know, whatever. Yeah, we will be now selling usif-fritzel-fumed kilt in the merch store.

0:39.9

Absolutely. They are being manufactured in his failed lingerie factory. Have they heard that? I don't know if you've heard that yet. Is it in this part?

0:48.5

Is it in last week's part? You're going to find out. I can't remember. But as much as I have enjoyed sort of doing this really kind of deep dive into one particular case.

0:57.5

And I do think that Fritzel was a case that needed it. I am very glad that we don't have to talk about him ever again. Because I'm sick of him. I'm sick of the man. Get out my face. Yes, sir.

1:08.5

We sincerely hope that you're not all sick of it. And you're actually here for answers which we promise this week will be coming your way.

1:15.8

Last week, if you all so kindly cast your minds back, we left Elizabeth in the cellar. She'd been there for years and she's got four children by that stage in the game.

1:24.6

And of course they are all fathered by Yosef Fritzel himself. There's Kirsten and Stefan who lived in the cellar with Elizabeth and then there's Monica and Lisa, whom Yosef managed to smuggle upstairs to his upstairs family after he dumped them on his own doorstep.

1:39.7

And by this point, Elizabeth was finding a way to cope with her captivity by focusing on her children and their needs.

1:47.3

So Yosef back to him and how he is juggling his upstairs life with his secret family to get the supplies so to get food and you know, things that the kids and Elizabeth needed.

1:58.7

He would drive an hour and a half to shops in various other towns so that he wouldn't run the risk of anybody recognizing him.

2:06.8

And with the food that he bought the kids he would buy things like frozen fish fillets bottles of phanta bread dumplings sausages and tins of preserved foods like potatoes, rice beans, spaghetti and ice cream.

2:18.8

From these basic ingredients, Elizabeth would cook three meals a day for her children.

2:23.2

And on festive occasions, Yosef would allow Elizabeth to make decorations from paper and on birthdays, if supplies allowed, she would even make the kids birthday cakes.

2:34.7

Kirsten and Stefan would obviously be overjoyed during these celebrations.

2:39.0

That is, except for when their father decided to join them.

2:42.8

The children were scared of him at the best of times, but during these celebrations, Yosef Fritzel would turn up wearing a crampus mask.

2:52.4

And if you don't know what that is, it's a Germanic fairy tale-horned creature who said to eat children.

2:59.2

So unsurprisingly, the mask get-up would usually end with the children terrified and crying.

3:05.8

I want to say what's wrong with this man, but where do you stop?

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