After Michael died, Josef took the baby's body and cremated him. In 1988, she gave birth to her first child Kerstin and over the next 14 years, she had six more children, Stefan, Lisa, Monika, Alexander, Michael, and Felix. Over the next 24 years, Josef visited Elisabeth in the basement nearly every day, raping her and abusing her. While a police report was filed, it was believed that Elisabeth joined a religious sect, according to a story Josef told the authorities.

Josef then showed his wife Rosemarie a handwritten letter from Elisabeth, postmarked from the town of Braunau in Upper Austria, saying she had left her parents and to not look for her, or else she would flee the country.

However, Josef covered Elisabeth's face with an ether-soaked rag while she was holding the door in place until she passed out. In August 1984, 18-year-old Elisabeth was lured to the basement of their home by her father, Josef, under the pretext of helping him place a door for an ongoing basement conversion project. Where is Elisabeth Fritzl now? Chilling true story of 24 years of rape and captivity of 'Girl in The Basement' A general backside view of a house where Josef Fritzl locked up his daughter in a basement (Getty Images) What happened to Elisabeth Fritzl? 'Girl in the Basement' Review: Disturbing film inspired by real-life sexual assault is not for the faint-hearted 'Room' was based on a 2010 novel of the same name by Emma Donaghue, a novel that was based on the infamous Fritzl case. The premise of Lifetime's latest film 'Girl in the Basement' may seem familiar ― the 2015 film 'Room' starred Brie Larson for which she won the Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who was kept imprisoned by a man in a basement for years. One of the seven children, Michael, died shortly after birth in the cellar due to severe breathing difficulties. During the time she was imprisoned, Josef assaulted, sexually abused, and raped Elisabeth numerous times, resulting in the birth of seven children, with Elisabeth suffering a miscarriage two years into her imprisonments. Josef told her mother that she had run away, but Elisabeth had been in the home's basement. In 2008, a woman in Austria, Elisabeth Fritzl, told police that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl.

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