What a horrible and sick individual! Can I just say that as a sound bite, "I could have killed them all, and no one would ever have known, no one would ever have found out," doesn't particularly work well. Keeping your own daughter a captive for 24 years and fathering 7 children with her, several of whom never saw sunlight, is pretty much most people's idea of being a monster. There IS no good way to spin this, dude.
Josef Fritzl: "I Am Not a Monster"
Austrian Father Breaks His Silence, Criticizes Media for Dubbing Him a Monster
By CHRISTEL KUCHARZ
PASSAU, Germany, May 7, 2008Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in a windowless dungeon in his cellar, has complained about poor media coverage of the case.
His criticism of the international media's reporting was published in the German tabloid Bild Zeitung.
"I could have killed them all," reads the front page headline of today's Bild Zeitung. And Fritzl, dubbed a monster by the Austrian media, told his lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, "I'm not a monster," according to today's report.
Fritzl is sharing his prison cell with another man who is serving time for taking part in a shooting incident. The men have a TV set and a radio available to them in their cell.
Fritz's lawyer has been seeing him and, according to Bild Zeitung, his client has complained to the lawyer that media coverage has been "unfair" and "completely one-sided."
"I could have killed them all, and no one would ever have known, no one would ever have found out," he reportedly told his lawyer.
Fritzl has confessed to locking up his daughter for almost 24 years, and fathering seven children with her during that time.
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