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Dec 2020
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Episode 177 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar ...

Wondery | RedHanded
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Elisabeth Fritzl had spent her childhood being relentlessly sexually tormented by her father, Josef. But on 29th of August 1984 things escalated to a level of horror she could never have imagined, when she woke up chained to a bed in the cellar of his house...


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