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I Wish You Were Here

He Held His Daughter Captive & Fathered His Own Grandchildren

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.9 โ€ข 1.2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 8 May 2026

โฑ๏ธ 45 minutes

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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ He Held His Daughter Captive & Fathered His Own Grandchildren In this episode: For 24 years, a door in a quiet Austrian basement stayed locked. Behind it โ€” a daughter, her children, and a darkness the world above never imagined. This is the story of Josef Fritzl, the most disturbing case of captivity in modern history, and the woman who survived it. ย #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #CrimeStory #JosefFritzl #ElisabethFritzl #Kidnapped #SerialKillers #NetflixDocumentary #TrueStory #IWishYouWereHerePod #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimeStoryteller ๐ŸŽง Listen to the Podcast Apple Podcasts:I Wish You Were Here on Apple Podcast Spotify:I Wish You Were Here on Spotify All Platforms: https://hoo.be/mshellllly ๐Ÿค This Episode Is Sponsored By Warby Parker Go to WarbyParker.com/WISH for an additional 20% off! ๐Ÿ”— Link: WarbyParker.com/WISHย  ๐ŸŒ Follow Me TikTok: TikTok Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mshellllly/ YouTube: I Wish You Were Here on YouTube ๐Ÿ–ค Disclaimer This episode discusses real events involving real people. Information is presented based on publicly available sources at the time of recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:04.4

Mom!

0:05.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:07.8

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:13.6

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.1

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.4

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.5

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:29.7

Guys, you know when you're up late at night, you're on your phone, you're scrolling on TikTok,

0:34.7

and the most random video comes up on your for you page of like, I don't know,

0:39.3

a random person eating 17 pounds of watermelons or doing a science experiment in their bathtub

0:44.8

or putting on 100 layers of clothing just to see how many layers they can put on before

0:50.5

they have to stop. Just the most random acts of free will. You guys know what I'm talking about,

0:56.3

right? I'm sure you guys have seen it. And then you open up the comments section and there are

1:00.3

thousands of comments of people saying something along the lines of, wow, you never really know

1:06.3

what someone is doing inside of their own home. You know what I'm talking about, right? I've seen so many

1:11.4

comment sections like that. Well, that thought crosses my mind often the fact that you don't really

1:17.0

know what people are doing inside of their own homes, what anyone is up to inside the walls of their

1:22.2

own home. But the dark side of that thought is that sometimes horrific acts of evil are happening inside

1:29.0

of a house, maybe close to you, maybe not. And you, a random normal human being could never

1:36.0

really imagine the things that someone else is being put through at the same time that you're

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