>> a small village in austria. a house sits on a quiet residential street. what lurks beneath is especially built cellar prison for a young 18-year-old woman who was imprisoned and raped and there she remined for 24 years. it was the longest night. >> 30 years as prosecutor, i thought i had seen everything. >> in that sunless airless space, elizabeth gave birth to seven children.

her tormenter, her own father. >> intelligent, a strategist and a perfect criminal of the worst kind. >> josest fritzle fooled everyone who knew him. >> new york in the street noticed anything at all. >> his cellar disgorged its dark and unspeakable secrets. >> you couldn't write this. >> for became a worldwide story. how did he do what he did and most importantly, how could he?

>> april 19th, saturday morning, a small austrian village 70 miles from vienna. at 7:00 a.m., a call comes into 911. a teenage girl is seriously ill. an ambulance is sent to the home of joseph fritzl. at the local hospital it was a quiet morning. that was about to change as a young patient is admitted with symptoms that confound doctors. >> she was between life and death. >> the young woman is unconscious and lost most of her teeth. shortly afterwards, a 73-year-old man, joseph arrived the the hospital and said the patient's mother was his daughter and she had run away to join a cult. he gave them a note from her. >> please help her.

kirstin is very scared of strangers and never has been in the hospital before. i asked my father for help because he is the only person she knows. >> it was signed by elizabeth. >> the grandfather said this was the father time his daughter had disappeared and abandoned her children. it might be possible to find this woman and that's not the hospital's job. it's a job for the police. >> the dark street remained concealed as they found the sick girl's mother, elizabeth fritzl. >> the central registry database was searched and social security. every avenue was explored. there was not a shred of information about elizabeth. >> with kirstin in a coma, doctors broadcast upon a

television appeal. >> i would like the mother to contact us. we will treat the contact with high discretion and will probably get a spep further in the diagnosis and treatment. >> one of the luxuries was a set and she watch and decided the time was right to demand they free her children and her. >> in the outside world, the police were changing tactics and started taking dna samples since three of elizabeth's children upper living upstairs, children he said his daughter had aban n abandon abandoned. >> we wanted everyone's d 3rks na samples to trace a possible father or father. a woman with som children may have had more than one partner. might have had a criminal

record. fritzl didn't have time. he kept close because he had so much to do. >> on april sixth, a week after she was admitted to the hospital i joseph ended the long night for elizabeth and her children. he told his wife that elizabeth, no a haggered looking 42 heard the appeals and fled the cult to nurse her sick daughter. at the hospital the police had lots of questions for elizabeth. >> the questioning focused on his work. where she had been and why shy in dpleneglected her children. >> she was wasn't ready to reveal the truth yet. >> linda was the head of the sex crimes unit and today she a best

selling writer of crime novels. >> when elizabeth worked with police and professionals to talk, there was no reason for her to trust them. this is a world that betrayed her by not looking for her in her own home with her own father. >> finally elizabeth admitted that she did have a story to tell, but only if she never saw her father again. >> she was given assurance and without a break in a mere two hours she gave an account of the 24 years in the cell. it still sends shivers down my spine. >> they were presented with a strange picture. he looked at her physical appearance. i don't want to go into too much detail, but looking at this

woman, you can believe she was imprisoned if are many, many years. >> the full horror of what lay buried beneath the house began to emerge. elizabe elizabeth's tale of 24 years underground filled a few sheets of paper, but the impact of her story was devastating and beyond belief. coming up, the police uncover the chamber of horrors. >> i wanted to see it prison for myself. i went through it and was glad to be able to leave. >> when the longest night returns. which means it's never been easier to get a new passat, awarded j.d. power's most appealing midsize car, two years in a row. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's

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. >> during her interview with 34r50es, elizabeth told a story no one could believe at first.

how her phone father imprisoned her at 18 in a cellar com pound he designed and built in their house where he raped her repeatedly and had given birth to seven children. april 27th, with elizabeth's testimony in hand, police go to fritzl's house. they live in the third floor, leasing out the first two to renters. there is no video footage available of the basement, but using evidence of the photos, we render animation of what that awful compound might look like. to access it, needed to go down the cellar stairs and through rooms. there were eight locked doors before reaching the living area.

the final door was concealed behind a shelving unit. there was no natural light and little fresh air. inside their tiny prison there was a kitchen, a bathroom and a living area. and beyond this, two bedrooms. the ceilings were low because of the sound proofing required to muscle the cries of the imprisoned. >> i went to see this dungeon, this prison for myself once. i went through it and was very glood to be able to leave. the environment where the ceilings were kept very low. around six foot at the highest point. the environment was anything pleasant. evident living, personal hygiene must have kept the humility high. if we sat down and attempted to

capture 30 years and a few lines or a brief report, we wouldn't succeed. i believe in those 24 years life must have felt as if it lasted ten times as long as realtime. >> it's so unusual and extraordinary that it's not only in a home in a city, but in what sounds like an apartment building and a closely surrounded one. how he was able to construct this sound proofing to the extend he did and air to breathe could get in and out is far beyond my engineering capacity. >> all-around number 40, josest fritzl created a natural barricade, his nearest neighbors were three gardens away.

the old lady moved into nursing care and next to her, the couple spend their time in vienna. the couple in the third house is herbert and regina pence. >> all the gardens are open. his is all conceal and built up. a few open spaces are covered by trees and bushes. you can't see anything. the neighbor wanted to trim the hedge, but he said leave it. >> his neighbors speak of a family who kept to themselves always. >> the family never came to any of the garden parties we used to have. they never came. in the end, people stopped inviting them. everyone knew the fritzls would never come to a party. >> he was a successful

electrical engineer who ownered several properties that he represented out. his only hobby was home repair. >> we often heard the noise of the cement mixer. he did most of the building work himself. we thought he was adding on a room to rent out or something like that. >> according to the police, years before imprisoning his daughter he carefully plan and built his maximum security prison. >> one of the strangest things is the amount of preplanning and not just premeditation about what he wanted to do to his daughter. but the amount of planning to enable him to build this bunker, fortify it and mick sure that nobody in close quarters could hear anything. >> today we know with certainty papart of the old house was reserved, so to speak. this new house suddenly gained a

small face of 35 to 35 square meters without anyone noticing. on the assumption that he already settled upon the plan to build his own personal space as early as 1978 and start a relationship with his pretty daughter, elizabeth. >> elizabeth fritzl goes missing and her friends can't find her. >> when i called, i was palmed off. it was over. i didn't hear from her again. >> when are the longest night returns. bl and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount... and they both loved the taste. after a few months max's "special powers" returned... and i got my hero back.

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[ sofia ] from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. . >> what joseph fritle did was not his first act. he was convicted of raping a 24-year-old nurse at knifepoint. he was married with four children. for this he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. >> i can't investigate matters

in which i know nothing. there was no statute of limitation. they require they remove all records in ten years, thus erasing his krim nat past. joseph fritzl presented himself as a strong family man in a catholic country. his daughter elizabeth was his fourth of seven. five girls and two boys with a father ruling the roost. >> i did hear talk that he was very firm with his children and absolute obedient to fritzle prevailed. his wife was submissive towards him. we knew he was domineering with his family. >> elizabeth found the atmosphere oppressive, causing her to run away. >> i did get the impression she

felt more comfortable at school than at home. it was the same for both of us. it was like a silence descending. >> and dre as was her former boyfriend. >> she confided in me. i knew he was under pressure from her parents. she ran away when she was 14 or 15. >> according to elizabeth's testimony to police, the situation at home was worse than just a stern father. she said her father's sexual abuse began at age 11 and she kept it secret. >> the abuse at 11 years, i thought about it a lot recently whether i noticed anything back when we were at school. now it's easier to understand why she didn't talk about boys or sex. now with hindsight i understand why she didn't talk about certain things or why she was

distant and quiet. >> he said his decision to incarcerate his daughter was to rescue her from what he described as persons of questionable moral standards and ever since she started puberty, elizabeth ceased to a bay his rules. >> one of the things we see especially applies in places of familial violence. the defense that i was doing something to protect or better the life of the victim. they are absurd, but that doesn't stop most of them from trying. >> fritzle admitted in an interview that he had other reasons to lock up his daughter. my desire to have sex with elizabeth got much stronger as time went by. we first had sex in spring 1985. i could not control myself

anymore. not surprisingly, she has a different version. the longest night started in august of 1984 when she was only 18 when her father drugged her and dragged her to the cellar, chaping her to a wall. for the first years of incarceration, she lived in isolation according to her could. the only visitor was her own father who raped her every few days. >> you could probably talk to 50 different psychiatrists and read all the literature and get 50 different answers about what drives the incest dynamic. some of it is control and some of it is lust. some of it is a narcissistic attraction to self and the creation of self. >> he fabricated a cover story saying that eliz beth fled to join a cult, insisting she

didn't want to be found and presented letters he forced her to write. fritzl's web of lies worked. no one came looking for elizabe elizabeth. not her mother or friends and not the neighbors. not the police. >> this is something the police see time and time again. as we all know, every child needs the family home at some point. then her 19th birthday arrived. the police are not allowed to search for purchases over 19. from this age onwards they can go anywhere in the world they want. >> in planning elizabeth's disappearance, he was meticulous and known to be highly organized. a quality appreciated by those who he did business with. >> we had a business relationship.

he was correct. if he gave you his word, you could count on it. he would return two days later and two days later it was back. what he said he did, we could count on it. >> he saw the fritzls every summer and had known elizabeth. when she went missing, joseph was sure to know all about it. >> then he came to see us and he told us lizzy won't be coming home. she has disappeared. >> to reinforce the idea that his daughter disappeared, he began an elaborate deception that lasted over two decades. to stop the questions, he

started to manufacture evidence. >> i don't remember when, but he said a letter arrived. the letter said it was pointless to search for her because she was deeply involved with the sect and so happy there she was definitely not coming home. >> we were a couple. we wrote to each other and saw each other and then all contact ended. it was over. i didn't hear from her again. >> elizabeth had simply vanished and no one seemed to think it unusual. coming up, elizabeth is forced to give up three of her children. >> people said it was irresponsible. what a bad mother to leave the children on the doorstep. fritzle had seven children and now she had to bring up grandchildren as well. terrible. >> when the longest night

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elizabeth was all of 22. >> if we want to discuss when things deteriorated for elizabeth, there was the moment she realized she was pregnant for the first time and the worry throughout the pregnancy whether her child would be healthy and the births themselves would have taken their toll given there was no help on hand like a mid-wife or a doctor. >> escaping from her dungeon with the eight locked doors was always going to be difficult, but with pregnancy and becoming a mother, elizabeth seems to have simply given up. >> there was a change. she said even before she was incarcerated she was abused and after being taken prisoner had endured brutal violence. then she said this happened. >> having been where she has

been, doing it and knowing your children are not likely to get out either. so the mixed blessing of having a child, but knowing that child is also going to be a prisoner and that happening over and over again. i just can't imagine how she did not shut down entirely and give up. >> in total, elizabeth gave birth to seven of her father's children. 6 are, live. michael died after birth. the body was incinerated in the furnace. felix is 5 and stephan is 18 and kirstin was 19 were condemned to captivity with their mother. fritzle selected the middle three for a life of freedom

upstairs. alexander, lisa and monica. >> why this man took these three little children upstairs we will never get a final answer. you can imagine it was getting crowded. the more prisoner, the more complicated it was to look after them. >> taking the three little children posed problems. how to explain the arrival of the babies. his solution was simple. elizabeth was a bad mother and abandoned her children. a pattern was established in the middle of the night. a baby was left with a note from elizabeth, a letter the father forced her to write. >> i'm sorry i have to turn to you again. i hope lisa is doing well. she must have grown a bit. monica is 997 months old. she was breast-fed and now eats almost anything, but likes the

bottle best. the hole has to be a little bigger for her. >> when the second baby arrived, the press took note. mark perry covered the case for a local newspaper. >> in 1994, the first story. that's the second time she put a baby in front of the door of her grandfather. how bad must she be. now her daughter has been managing since 1984, we think she is in the hands of some religious group and in fact she was in his hands. >> even austrian social services bought into the complex web of deception. >> if as people assumed and her father kept claiming elizabeth

was living in the sect, it wouldn't have been difficult for a member to give her a lift at night and for her to leave the baby on the doorstep at a time she wouldn't have been seen. >> the closest neighbors brought his story too. >> people said it was irresponsible and what a bad mother to leave the children on the doorstep. he had seven children and she had to bring up grandchildren as well. terrible. >> over the 24 years elizabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting in the house above the prison. none suspected. >> in hindsight you can claim you heard something like knocking, but that is not the case. i can't recall ever hearing knocking or anything. if i heard something, what could i have done. it could have been the children playing. you don't know. >> after the first child was

abandoned in 1992, social services paid some 20 visits to the house. request fritzl's rape conviction erased, they had no reason to be suspicious. social workers left impressed by his wife, rosemary. >> the grandmother took loving care of the children. lisa, monica and alexander. they were very well brought up. they were doing very well at school. they were integrated in the community and the notings and the records about the meetings suggest that the atmosphere was normal. >> there was sympathy for the elderly couple who had acquired a new young family. >> only the first child, lisa, was adopted and the other two were raised as foster children. this was chosen because the state does not pay support for

adopted children, but child support ranging from 397 to 410 euros is paid per child per month depending on the age of the child. in hindsight and to an observer, it is almost inconceivable that this man claimed support. >> joseph fritzle was not above suspicion. the fact was that nobody, neighbors or social services thought there was anything wrong. >> in the world upstairs, everybody who knew them said so. everything seemed right. the children went to school and did their homework and were brought up strictly by this father. after sometime people would have said this is an honorable man. he may be strict, but as we say say in austria, strictness never heard anybody. all this played a part.

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i was delighted about the children. it was great for me to have a second family with a wife and a few children. like a doctor jeckyl and mr. hyde. he made sure to celebrate birthdays and holidays with his cellar family, ichb bringing down a christmas tree. >> we know that those who are in prison do things at a different pace the way they talk and the way they now choose to spend their time and freedom and it's impossible to imagine what it would have been like and to live with the reminder of the world outside, watching television and seeing pictures and hearing stories about what life was like. >> meanwhile, elizabeth tried to give her children a degree of normality, teaching them to read and write. >> they had lessons. they learned grammar and they

learned language and they learned mathematics. they have been raised very well. they are very well behaved. if you experience stephan, he's a very, very polite and educated person. i think elizabeth tried her best to give them structure and a good life under the given circumstances in the dungeon. >> recent home video of fritzl frolicking in thailand suggests he didn't have a care in the world and also suggests he may have had a voracious sexual appetite. >> his sex life cannot be classified as normal. my information is on numerous occasions he visited brothels and indulged in various perverted activities. >> his absences on holiday for

several weeks at a time raised questions he might have had an accomplice, but he was so well organized, it wouldn't have been necessary. >> based on evidence we know this prison had a restricted living area which was equipped with everything necessary to keep them alive. for example, large quantities of food in freezers and the facility to do laundry. there was a washing machine as well. an electric cooking unit for preparing meals. >> it required detailed planning to maintain two families, in secrecy for 24 years with four secret prisoners downstairs to clothe and feed, fritzl used to drive out to do his shopping, ever careful not to arouse suspicion with unusual purchases. provisions were taken underground at night. he was not your typical criminal with a short attention span and

unconscious need to be found out. >> what we count on is criminals get sloppy and do stupid things. fritzl is a very unusual man who kept these crimes unsuspected for more than two decades. it's the amount of planning and the amount of control. >> what about his wife, rosemary? how could she not know or at 4r50e69 suspe least suspect. >> i don't understand why she didn't take action and say this is my child and want to know where my child is. why did my child leave one or three babies on my doorstep. she didn't take action as a mother. i don't understand the mother. >> she knew her husband's background a as rapist and disappeared for hours at a time in their own home.

i believe she is at least of moderate intelligence to say where was he go and what was he doing and why did the children appear? could she have been completely ignorant of the husband's nature and character? >> in fact according to some, rosemary played an essential in keeping the deception going. >> she had to protect the family for so long, she tried to keep on the outside playing the idyllic family. playing with the children and adopting them and being perfect grandparents and giving the love their mother couldn't give. she was an accomplice of the tyrant man. >> austrian police believe fritzl acted alone. >> no one has been ruled out as

a suspect. we always categorically said they have given us no reason to suspect anyone else. it may be hard to comprehend, but a woman bringing up seven children can't take care of everything or pay the same attention to her husband as if she had a smaller family. >> dna samples taken from the cellar indicate that no other suspect was present, apart from joseph fritzl. >> we are only looking at a single suspect. there is a certain logic to the fact that this man did not tell anyone about his affairs. it was the only way through secrecy and self discipline he was able to keep it hidden for such a long time. >> coming up, what future awaits elizabeth fritzl and her children. >> i am sad to say she is

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>> in light of the crimes he admitted to, they are seeking to find what drove him to the humanity. the defense lawyer points had his naza era childhood born as the nazi were taken over austria he was brought up as an only child by a strict and cruel mother. a woman he worshipped, saying she was the best woman in the world. i suppose you could describe me as her man, sort of. he admits he had sexual longings for her and said i was capable to keep my desires under control. meanwhile the victims of the six

children he fathered and his daughter and wife were reunited in a psychiatric clinic where they could get the coupling they needed. >> it is amazing to watch the family. they behaved like a normal family. there were lots of things that have been reported badly or wrongly. at first, the children speak normally german. they communicate as anybody does. they walk as anybody does. also what has been reported about elizabeth, she is a normal-looking woman. very attractive person. if you meet her and see her, the most important point right now is that she has the feeling that the kids are happy. they feel comfortable and that gives her i would say the best

relief. >> since elizabeth frizzle's long night began, so much has changed, but she retains a working knowledge of a world she last saw when ronald reagan was president of the united states. >> elizabeth let's say is led back out to a world she once knew in which she can remember and is reflected on television. the others, the children will be let us and have to be taught how to live. in most senses that were not simulated downstairs will have to be stimulated. >> some days you go with rain and you want to see for the first time rain. i never experienced that. even if you hear that, you realized he didn't see that before. he still has lots of things to experience. >> ordinary life is still not

possible. the international interest in the case that the family cannot leave the hospital in which they are staying. it's rumor that the first photo of them is worth millions of dollars. effectively they are still in prison. >> they cannot go outside. there lots of paparazzi who want to take photographs. this is something that gives them again the feeling of being captured. it's very difficult for alex, lisa, and monica who lived together with their grandma upstairs. they cannot see their friends. they cannot meet their classmates. they even missed school. this is something which is very hard for them and they are asking when can they meet them again when they go to school again. we all hope that this will happen pretty soon.

they have to have a normal life again. >> the man responsible for all of this sits in a real prison 40 miles away. so far joseph fritzl is reported to have shown little remorse even though he confessed to the heinous crimes. >> when i met him again in his cell, i said it was you, fritzl? i'm appalled by you. how can anyone do such a thing. he said i am very, very sorry for my family, but it cannot be uh done. i said you should have thought about that earlier. >> fritzl is angered by coverage of the case. he dictated a statement to his lawyer, denying being a monster. he maintains he was kind to his family and citing he could have killed them and didn't. >> the media coverage is over the top. part of my job is to move it

away from the monter back to the human being. this is a human being on trial. not a monster. >> questions are being asked about who else to to blame. accusations they deny. >> he was very authoritarian. certain areas were for his use. why would this lead to suspicions there was a second family. who would get that idea into their head. i ask you. it's all too easy to be wise after the event. >> there has been one admission of failure. austria's statute of limitations. it was wiped from the record books. had it remained on his record,

perhaps more questions would have been asked. they are changing the law. some wonder if there is something about the austrian psyche. >> we tend to look the other way when a child gets a smack in the face. rather than be brave and say what on earth are you thinking? what are you doing? we respect privacy so much we don't pick up the phone to send someone over. everyone is left to mind their own business. we have a saying in austria. don't get involved. >> elizabeth continues to suffer severe ailments due to the poor air and lack of sun and exercise or medical care stemming from their long confinement. after several months, kirstin is release and reunited with her brothers and sisters.

their emotional recovery will be long and difficult, especially elizabeth's. >> sad to say i think she is profoundly damaged to imagine somebody held captive for 24 years. i truly see some sort of recovery that she lives and hopefully is healthy and restored to some kind of life that she can lead, but i think there is absolutely no way to repair all of the damage she sustained. >> however there is a sign of hope. recently the fritzl children sent a note of thanks to the tones people for expressions of concern and wrote of their relief of being free. stephan at 18 wrote -- >> i like the sun and the fresh air. >> felix age 5 wrote -- >> i want to run across a

meadow. >> alexander at age 12 writes -- >> i want freedom and strength. >> in july they were well enough to move from the psychiatric clinic to an undisclosed location in the countryside. his is a case that continues to confound. >> so many questions. did he have other uses for it. were there victims before his daughter. are there bodies anywhere? >> some questions may never be answered in the darkest of cases, but for elizabeth and her six children, their longest night is over.

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