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Austrian accused of incest had prior rape: Family
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Posted 04 May 2008 @ 05:17 pm GMT
The sister-in-law of Austria's accused "horror father" Josef Fritzl says he served 18 months in prison for a 1967 rape conviction.
A car drives past the front of a house that was the scene of a crime of incest and abuse in Amstetten, Lower Austria, Saturday, May 3, 2008 as the gathering of evidence continues. A man allegedly held his daughter captive in a dungeon of his house fo...
But the woman says Rosemarie never believed her husband was involved in the 24-year disappearance of their daughter or the three children that mysteriously turned up at their doorstop.
Police say the 73-year-old Fritzl has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a dingy dungeon for more than two decades, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children.
His wife's sister said in an interview late Saturday that the daughter ran away from home as a 17-year-old, about six months before police say she was locked into the soundproofed, windowless cellar hinting at a motive for the crime.
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