Josef Fritzl's house of horrors where he imprisoned daughter divided into flats
The home of Austrian criminal Josef Fritzl has been divided into apartments rented to young people after plans to turn it into a horror museum failed.
The sex monster imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth at the age of 18 in a basement dungeon where he held her captive and raped her for 24 years, telling his wife and police that she had run away to join a cult.
The case only emerged in 2008 when Elisabeth told police during a trip to hospital, in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive by her father.
The woman, along with three of the seven children she had with the beast, were finally freed from their brutal life of captivity.
The house in Amstetten, Austria (MDM)Kerstin, Stefan and Felix were aged 19, 18 and five when they were freed in April 2008.
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Their fellow incest siblings Lisa, Monika, and Alexander, then 16, 14 and 12, had been granted freedom by Fritzl to live "upstairs" with his wife Rosemarie.
To the citizens of Amstetten, 70 miles from the Austrian capital of Vienna, Fritzl was a dedicated, hard-working grandfather.
He covered his tracks by telling police Elisabeth had run away to a sect on August 29, 1984 – the day he drugged her and dragged her to his dungeon prison – and only returned to drop the three children as babies on his doorstep.
The property at 40 Ybbstrasse was dubbed 'horror house' (MDM)The "horror house", as it has been dubbed in local media, is located at 40 Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten - a town that is home to 23,000 residents.
It was bought by landlord couple Herbert and Ingrid Houska from Fritzl's bankruptcy estate and the couple renovated it.
They said: "All nine apartments are rented out. There are young people among them who have no connection to the Fritzl case."
The basement dungeon has been filled with concrete (MDM)The basement dungeon where Fritzl held his daughter captive and raped her for 24 years has been filled with concrete.
The landlord couple had the garage entrance, through which the Austrian discreetly provided for his captives, bricked up.
Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to rape, false imprisonment, manslaughter by negligence, and incest in March 2009.
The home has now been transformed into nine apartments rented out to young people (MDM)Of the seven children born from the repeated abuse of his daughter, three remained in captivity with their mother and one died shortly after birth.
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The remainder were brought up by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie after he claimed they had appeared on his doorstep.
The identities of the victim and her children are now protected.
Fritzl kept his daughter captive for 24 years (MDM)Former Amstetten mayor Herbert Katzengruber told local media: "Nobody wants to talk about it anymore. I won't make a statement on it. The people are really angry."
Current mayor Christian Haberhauer said: "No comment, the chapter is closed."
Fritzl has co-written a book in prison with his lawyer Astrid Wagner called 'The Depths of Josef F.', in which he reportedly wrote: "In reality, I am a good person."
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