Father Who Kept Daughter Captive in Basement 24 Yrs: TV, Note Play Part in Release

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New details have emerged in the case of the father who held his daughter captive in the dungeon-like cellar of their Austrian home for 24 years and "fathered" seven children with her. How a note and a television in the secret dungeon may have played a key part in ending the daughter and her children's captivity.

Josef Fritzl, The Sins of the Father

Seventy three-year-old Josef Fritzl has been remanded into police custody for two weeks while DNA tests have confirmed that he's the father of all seven of his daughter's children: Kerstin, 19, Stefann, 18, Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, Alexander, 12, and Felix, age 5. Another child, a twin boy born the same time as Monika, purportedly died shortly after childbirth and whose body Josef allegedly burned in the garden behind the Friztl's concrete villa.

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