Daughter Held Captive

Defendant Josef Fritzl covers his face prior to the start of his trial for incest on Monday, March 16, 2009, at the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria. Fritzl is accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24-years and fathering her seven children.

Defendant Josef Fritzl hides his face behind a blue file folder prior to the start of his trial Monday, March 16, 2009, at the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria. Fritzl stands accused of imprisoning his daughter for nearly a quarter of a century and fathering her seven children. He raped her repeatedly in front of the youngsters, prosecutors said Monday as the trial opened.

A photo released by the Austrian police on Monday, April 28, 2008, shows suspect Josef Fritzl, who is believed to have held his daughter captive for 24 years and sexually abused her in a high-tech, windowless cell in Amstetten, a blue-collar town about 75 miles west of Vienna, where she allegedly gave birth to seven children.

A photo taken by and released by the Austrian police April 28, 2008, shows suspect Josef Fritzl at an unspecified location. Austrian prosecutors say the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children has been charged with murder Thursday Nov. 13, 2008, contending one of the offspring who died in infancy might have survived if treated.

An aerial view on Monday, April 28, 2008, of the building in Amstetten, Austria, top right, with green rooftop garden, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell and fathered seven children with her, three of whom "never saw sunlight" until they were freed over the weekend.

Policemen stand in the gateway of the house of Josef Fritzl in Amstetten, Lower Austria, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The retired electrician who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her in a windowless cell likely suffered from a "power complex" and other psychiatric disorders, experts say.

A member of a forensic team and a policeman stand in the gateway of the house of Josef Fritzl in Amstetten, Lower Austria, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

A sign that reads "Building of Justice" stands in front of the justice institution in St. Poelten, Austria, where Josef Fritzl is imprisoned on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

A photo released by the Austrian police on Monday, April 28, 2008, shows a view into a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria, in which a woman is believed to have been held captive for 24 years by her father. Austrian police questioned a man, identified as Josef Fritzl, they say held his daughter captive for 24 years and sexually abused her.

A photo released by the Austrian police with permission of Austria's prosecution office on Monday, April 28, 2008, shows a view of a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria, in which a woman is believed to have been held captive for 24 years.

A photo released by the Austrian police on Monday, April 28, 2008 shows a view into a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria, in which a woman is believed to have been held captive for 24 years.

A person covered under a blanket sits in the back seat of a civilian car leaving a police station in Amstetten, Austria, Monday, April 28, 2008. Police did not say whether the person was a 73-year-old man, whom they had arrested under suspicion of holding his daughter captive in a house in Amstetten for 24 years. Authorities said a man confessed to imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her.

A person covered under a blanket sits in the backseat of a civilian car leaving a police station in Amstetten, Austria, Monday, April 28, 2008.

The Regional clinic Mostviertel in Amstetten-Mauer, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where a 42-year-old woman who was held captive by her father for 24 years and three of her six children are being treated. Authorities said a man confessed Monday to imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her in a windowless cell in a house im Amstetten, Austria, that stunned Austrians dubbed a "house of horrors."

The police station in Amstetten, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where a man suspected to have held his daughter captive in a cell for 24 years is believed to be held and questioned by police.

Police secure an entrance gate of the apartment block in Amstetten, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where a man allegedly imprisoned and abused his own daughter for 24-years in a cellar and fathered seven children with her.

A forensic police operative leaves the garden of the apartment block in Amstetten, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where a man allegedly imprisoned his own daughter for 24 years in a cellar and fathered seven children with her.

View of the apartment block in Amstetten, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where an unidentified man allegedly imprisoned and abused his own daughter for 24-years in a windowless cellar and fathered at least six children with her. Police took the 73-year-old father into custody.