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Austrian Dungeon Dad Charged with Murder

Chilling

Among other atrocities.

In case you’ve been wondering what exactly has been going on with that Austrian man who fathered seven children with his own daughter while keeping her locked in a cellar for 24 years: Josef Fritzl has been charged with the murder of one of the children who died shortly after childbirth. That brings the horrifying tally of charges up to murder, rape, enslavement, incest, coercion, and deprivation of liberty. He is charged with having murdered the child through neglect in 1996. After the baby died, Fritzl burned it in a furnace.

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