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Austrian Court Sentences Fritzl to Life in Prison

March 19, 2009

An Austrian court has found Josef Fritzl guilty of a number of crimes including negligent homicide and sentenced him to life in prison. The 73-year-old confessed to locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.

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