The real story behind the girl in the basement!

This movie was released a couple of months ago but really got people chills after saying that it is a real story that happened in real life so spoiler alert if you didn't watch the movie.

          

This inspired movie was made by real true events which is the case of Elisabeth Fritzl, a young woman who was held captive in the basement for about 24 years, as the real story is worse than the movie itself as most of the people were surprised by such an act by a father towards his daughter like that.     

👉Here are the details:

So Elizabeth was an Austrian woman who was locked in the basement by her father Joseph Fritzl for 24 years from 1984 to 2008, Elizabeth was like any young teenager who was enjoying her life but her father abused her, she went missing when she was 16 years old as her father lures her to his hand made basement, her father strangled her with a drug on her month until she passed out, she found her self in the basement handcuffed, as he made his daughter write a letter to her mother because the mother was so scared that her daughter I missing and the police were involved and didn't find her as well.

She stated in that letter that she wanted to go away and don't want to be found, as for the next 24 years he assaulted his daughter almost every day, in 1988 she gave birth to her first child who was Kerstin then Stefen, as both of them were born and raised in the basement. 

In 1993, Lisa was born but taken to be raised by their mother and father, the father took Lisa and put her on the front door as she was sent by his daughter to the family and stated in her letter that she couldn't care for her, then baby Monica is born and also sent to the wife and father in 1994.

In 1996 a set of twins were born but one of them died and taken by the father who was Elisabeth's father and disposed of the body, as the other twin that survived is Alexander appears in the house to be raised by her father and his wife, Media said that her father traveled Thailand for four weeks and left the basement with food storage.

In 2003, the oldest daughter Kerstin, got very ill that Elisabeth couldn't cure him, she must go to the hospital, the girl fells into a coma and the doctors called the police to file that girl who is named Elisabeth fritz, in these days the father release his daughter and the rest of people in the basement as Elisabeth reveals her decades-long imprisonment.

In April 2003 the police announced the arrest of Fritzl on suspicion of incest and abduction as well the children are placed in medical care as well as the mother having psychological treatment, all the children met for the first time, the father confessed for all his acts and even confessed about the dead baby and stated the place that he disposed of the body.

In 2008, Kirsten woke up from the coma and joins the rest of her siblings, as they all are getting psychological treatment due to staying in that cellar for too long and trying to decrease any kind of trauma.

In March 2009, Josef Fritzl pleads guilty to incest but denies murder and enslavement on the first day of his trial in St Pölten.

The updates until now that has Elisabeth changed her name and address to be unknown and avoid being harassed by anyone.

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👉Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/16/josef-fritzl-cellar-case-timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEs904idCDc&ab_channel=MoviesVibes