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Austrian Father Breaks His Silence, Criticizes Media for Dubbing Him a Monster

Josef 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,"... Full Story
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