Josef Fritzl linked to unsolved rape and murder of teen girl whose body was found near sex monster’s old guesthouse
SEX monster Josef Fritzl has been linked to the unsolved rape and murder of a teenager whose body was found near his old guesthouse.
Fritzl, who kept his own daughter in a dungeon, is facing renewed suspicion after construction workers found mysterious hidden rooms at the guesthouse.
Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie once run the Seestern or Starfish guesthouse in the picturesque lakeside town of Unterach am Mondsee, a short drive south of the city of Salzburg in north-western Austria.
Shockingly, the authorities never searched the house despite the horrors committed by Fritzl in a hidden dungeon 100 miles away in Amstetten.
Now Fritzl, 82, is being linked to the notorious cold case which took place in the area.
On the 12th of November 1986, a teenager who looked remarkably similar to Fritzl’s own daughter, disappeared.
The tragic 17-year-old was found raped and murdered, her body wrapped in green plastic sheets on the shores of the Mondsee Lake right opposite the guesthouse.
The rape and murder of the teenager, identified only as Martina P, was never solved.
The current tenant of the guesthouse Helmut Lang has called on the local authorities to investigate.
Mr Lang was the person who went public with the discoveries inside the guesthouse.
These were made while measurements were being carried out at the guesthouse which had never received a building permit.
According to media reports, two construction workers discovered a hidden room with a secret staircase leading nowhere.
Mr Lang said: "There are cavities everywhere in the house."
In the period when the Fritzls occupied the guesthouse, it burnt down twice before finally being rebuilt.
Josef Fritzl was even investigated as a suspected arsonist but the police could never prove anything.
Fritzl kept his own daughter Elisabeth captive for 24 years at another guesthouse in the town of Amstetten in the north-eastern state of Lower Austria.
He used her as a sex slave in a soundproofed horror dungeon and raped her more than 3,000 times, fathering seven children with her.
When one of these children, Kerstin, slipped into a coma, Fritzl took her to hospital, where doctors noted her malnourished condition and rotting teeth.
When Elisabeth was given permission to finally leave the cellar to visit Kerstin in hospital, she was arrested and told police about the horrific crimes her father had committed.
Fritzl, who recently changed his surname to Mayrhoff so that other prisoners might not recognise him anymore, is serving life for murder and rape at Austria's most secure psychiatric prison.
The murder charge was in relation to the death by negligence of one of his sons.
Fritzl's house in Amstetten was bought by Herbert and Ingrid Houska for only £143,581 (160,000 euros).
They renovated the building, which includes multiple flats, and have rented out all 10 properties.
Herbert Houska said he saw the refurbishing of the house as a wiping-clean of the area’s history.
He said: "The sarcophagus of Amstetten is gone. I think really something beautiful has emerged and the past has been buried. Many residents congratulate me and are happy. It is time to finally look forward."
Only the basement of the complex, where Elisabeth was held, is not in use as the Amstetten authorities filled it in to prevent it from becoming a shrine to other perverts.
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