In April 2008 the world was stunned by revelations of one of the most horrific cases of abuse ever recorded. Fritzl: Story of a Monster, 2010
Josef Fritzl, a respected businessman, father and husband was discovered to have held one of his own daughters captive in the cellar of the family home for twenty-four years. Over that period he repeatedly raped her. She bore him seven children. ibid.
On October 6th 1967 ... Josef Fritzl raped a local woman ... serving a year of an eighteen-month sentence. ibid.
The fourth of Rosemary and Josef’s seven children was Elizabeth, born in 1966. ibid.
Josef Fritzl has been writing begging letters to the daughter he locked up and raped in a secret dungeon for 24 years.
Every two weeks Fritzl, 74, pens a pleading note to daughter Elisabeth, 43, who suffered over 3,000 rapes at his hands and bore him seven incest children.
He says he needs money ‘to study to be a lawyer so I can defend myself’ – but Elisabeth never replies.
In some of the notes he asks for £3,500 to ‘get me started’ on his legal career.
He even moans about not being able to get special shampoo he claims he needs for his implanted hair.
Elisabeth is building a new life with the six children who survived the cellar hell beneath the family home in Amstetten, Austria, after she was freed in 2008.
The seventh child died three days after birth; Fritzl is serving a life sentence for his death and the rapes.
He was sentenced in March last year after dramatically reversing his not guilty pleas on multiple charges when he saw Elisabeth suddenly enter the courtroom.
From his cell at the psychiatric top security prison of Stein in Austria he bombards Elisabeth with the letters, seeking in turn forgiveness, money, understanding – and expressing the misguided hope that he will one day be free to spend his life with wife Rosemarie again. Mail online article Allan Hall 15th February 2010, ‘Cellar monster Josef Fritzl begs his rape victim daughter for cash ... to fund his legal training’
On 27th April 2008 the horrific case of Josef Fritzl sent shock-waves around the world ... For twenty-four years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In that time he had used her as a sex slave and fathered seven children. Fritzl by Fred Dinenage, CI 2014
In 1967 he was convicted of a rape. ibid.
At first Josef Fritzl entered a plea of not guilty. ibid.
It is a story of unimaginable evil. Josef Frizl held his daughter Elizabeth prisoner in the cellar of his home for twenty-four years. He forced her to have seven children with him and even murdered one of the babies. Fritzl: What Happened Next, Channel 5 2017
There was no natural light and barely any room to move freely. ibid.
For the children that remained, the only life they knew was that of an underground prison. ibid.
She [wife] was completely taken in by his lies. ibid.
‘He was not mentally insane.’ ibid. Dr Heidi Kastner, forensic psychiatrist
Fritzl didn’t want to show his face. ibid.
Fritzl showed little sign of remorse. ibid.
‘Fritzl raped a local woman. He broke into her house to do so and he served a year in prison for this crime.’ ibid. Dr Yardley, criminologist
The Iran Hostage Crisis ended on January 20 1981, when all remaining hostages were released. They spent 444 days in captivity. Argo 2012 starring Alan Arkin & Ben Affleck & Bryan Cranston & John Goodman & Tate Donovan & Clea DuVall & Christopher Denham & Scoot McNairy & Kerry Bishe & Rory Cochran & Victor Garber, director Ben Affleck
The birth of modern terrorism ... The events took place in Munich in the summer of 1972. At around five o’clock in the morning a group of Palestinian terrorists called Black September entered the Olympic village armed with AK47s. Taking hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team they demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Terror Attacks that Shocked Britain
Joy McKinney, former Miss Wyoming, joined the Morg [Mormons] from the Appalachians. Her first devout act was to try and get off with Wayne Osmond. Rebuffed, she started a relationship with Kirk Anderson. When Kirk tried to end the affair, Joy stalked him around the US and harassed him so seriously he requested a posting overseas. The Morg’s response was to send him on a mission (where Hamlet was sent in the throes of madness) to England.
Joy hired a private detective, tracked him down and descended on London in tow with a young Keith May who seems to have been besotted with the free-wheeling Joy.
Naturally, Joy and Keith threatened Kirk with replica guns, bundled him into a car and carted him to a rented cottage, where he was held captive for three days. The London Evening News of 23rd November 1977 reported the committal proceedings at Epsom Magistrates court:
‘A young Mormon missionary told today how an ex-beauty queen kidnapped him and then made love to him while he was chained to a bed in a lonely cottage.
‘Kirk Anderson, 21, said the girl, Joy McKinney, and her friend, Keith May, tied down his arms and legs with leather straps, padlocks, chains and rope, so that he was spreadeagled.
‘May then left the room while Miss McKinney tore off his blue silk pyjamas.
‘“She grabbed my pyjamas from just around my neck and tore them from my body. The chains were tight and I could not move. She proceeded to have intercourse. I did not want it to happen. I was very upset.”’
Joy McKinney was a tabloid star. Suddenly, little Britain discovered Mormon Big Love. Joy lapped the attention and London loved her. At a bail hearing, when it is not normally necessary to give evidence, Joy McKinney spilt the sexual beans. From the witness-box Joy spoke in a fabulously exotic Southern drawl and with no sense of shyness or inhibition. London 1977 was treated to the lurid details of Mormon Big Love Missionary Style.
‘Kirk has to be tied up to have an orgasm. I co-operated because I loved him and wanted to help him. Sexual bondage turns him on because he doesn’t have to feel guilty. The thought of being powerless before a woman seems to excite him. I didn’t have to give him oral sex ... I did do it at his request because he likes it.’
And in her most famous phrase, she drawled: ‘I loved Kirk so much that I would have skied down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose.’
The newspapers exploded. So did the magistrates. Joy McKinney was released on bail with a charge of kidnapping chained to her wrist (a charge of rape could not then brought when the victim, a man, seemed to enjoy being a sex slave; no-one in the country seemed to give a toss about the alleged victim).
Joyce McKinney, London’s hottest star, did a runner. The trial was set for May 1978, but Joy jumped bail, fled the country and arrived in America via Ireland and Canada. Without sub judice restrictions the gutter press printed every salacious details including her not-so Mormon career in soft porn.
Joy McKinney was later identified by the Salt Lake Tribune in August 2008 as one Bernann McKinney, gaining further fame by buying five cloned pitbulls of her dead dog Booger. esias, board re-post 1st April 2012 original, ‘Male Mormon Missionary Kidnapped For a Sex Slave!’
In May 2007 a group of uniformed police officers arrived at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad. An IT consultant Peter Moore was working there protected by four British security guards. In Iraq nothing is as it seems. Peter Moore’s kidnappers were insurgents who’d infiltrated the police. They murdered his bodyguards and held Moore captive for almost three years. He was freed only after a secret deal was struck. Secret Iraq: Insurgency, BBC 2010
I would make a special plea at this time for the release of all captives, foreign and Lebanese. Terry Waite, televised address
Aged 11 Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched outside her family home. Imprisoned for eighteen years she gave birth to two daughters, fathered by her kidnapper. Jaycee: My 18 Years in Captivity, Channel 4 2011
Why did the police never suspect her kidnapper, a paedophile who secretly filmed children in the local park? ibid.
This is Phillip Garrido, so dangerous he’d already been sentenced to fifty years for rape. But he’d served just ten years. ibid.
On the back seat Jaycee was being pinned down by a woman. ibid.
Antioch: where the untouchables live. Sex offenders, ordered out of nearby towns in California headed for Antioch’s anonymous commuter belt. ibid.
He fooled the psychiatrists and had been let out after ten years. ibid.
Carl Probyn [father-in-law] would take the lie detector test four times and remain prime suspect for the eighteen years Jaycee was captive. ibid.
For the kidnap and rape of Katie Hall, Garrido was sentenced to fifty years. Police now admit that this was one of a series of attacks Garrido carried out in Antioch and South Lake Taho between 1972 and 1976. Yet they were never linked to Jaycee’s kidnapping in 1991. ibid.
He was exceptional at emotional manipulation. ibid.
Failure and incompetence meant no-one suspected the convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido; law enforcement officers would visit Garrido’s Antioch home seventy times, but would never find Jaycee who was in the backyard living in a tent. Close neighbours suspected nothing. ibid.
Having a child seems to have given Jaycee a positive focus. ibid.
Kidnapped and held captive from age 11 Jaycee Lee was routinely abused by her captor Phillip Garrido. ibid.
Nancy Garrido would help her husband scout the little children. ibid.
So why didn’t she run and take her children away? ibid.
She was using the internet while captive. ibid.
The judge told Garrido he had reinvented slavery. ibid.