Secrets in the Cellar
The True Story of Elisabeth Fritzl Author: John Glatt I came to the true story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an 18-year-old Austrian woman who was raped and imprisoned in a secret cellar for twenty-four years by her own father, through Bailey Sarian’s Murder, Mystery, and Makeup podcast. I was in equal parts shocked and horrified – both by the crime itself and the fact that no one else in the house, including Elisabeth’s mother, siblings, and over 100 boarders over two decades ever noticed anything strange. Elisabeth’s father and captor, Josef Fritzl, spent years building the secret cellar, moving tons of rock [...]
