The Chilling Details of Elisabeth Fritzl Being Held Captive for 24 Years

A Life Behind Bars

Prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser (right) waits on Josef Fritzl’s lawyer

“Don’t be duped like Elisabeth was 24 years ago,” prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser said in her closing statements after urging the jury to deliver the maximum sentence on Fritzl. New York Daily News reported that “[Josef] Fritzl will undergo treatment as well as yearly assessments in the psychiatric ward of the prison he ends up in. Still, officials said if he was deemed cured, he would be transferred to the prison’s general population to serve the remainder of his sentence.” Before his verdicts were announced, Fritzl said, “I regret it with all my heart… I can’t make it right anymore.”

But the fate of the Fritzl family is not the only harrowing tale of kidnapping, as similar cases have happened in our own backyard… Keep reading as we cover another terrifying story of women being held captive.