Police files revealing that Josef Fritzl had previous convictions and charges for rape emerged today as his victims came forward to speak about their ordeals.
Officials in Linz, Upper Austria, found files from 1967 showing that Fritzl was a known sex offender. His record contains a conviction for a rape and an attempt rape as well as an arrest for public exposure.
At least two victims have come forward so far. A nurse from Linz, who claims she was raped by Fritzl in October 1967, when she was 24, told a local paper: “As soon as I saw his picture on TV I knew: It was him. I recognised him by the eyes. I could not sleep the whole night after that.
The nurse, who is now 65, said that Fritzl had slipped through her ground-floor bedroom window while her husband was away on work.
Josef Fritzl's 'rape victims' come forward - Times Online
What an arsehole. It's all coming out now. People knew, it's obvious. I can't help thinking, if there were two cases in Austria....