Monster

The most authoritative and comprehensive investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl, who engineered one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times

Allan Hall was a New York correspondent for ten years, first for The Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He co-founded the Big Apple News media agency and has covered German-speaking Europe for the last eight years for newspapers including several encyclopedias of crime. He lives and works in Berlin.

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. 
 
Based on 150 new interviews with psychologists, neighbours, colleagues and friends who knew Fritzl, as well as the insight of his own chilling confession, Allan Hall reconstructs the monstrous personality behind this hideous crime. He exposes Josef Fritzl's dark past in Nazi Austria, his previous conviction as a rapist, the appalling conditions in which Elisabeth and her children were kept and her astonishingly brave conduct while held prisoner. Including exclusive photographs and previously unseen evidence, this is a truly heart-stopping record of one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times.

Allan Hall

One House, Three Women and Ten Years in Hell

22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. 
 
21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 
 
2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home after school. 
 
For ten years these girls will remain undetected in a house just three miles from the block where they all went missing, held captive by a horrifying sexual predator. Captive reveals the dark obsessions that drove Ariel Castro to kidnap and enslave his innocent victims. Based on exclusive interviews, this is a truly shocking crime in a very ordinary neighbourhood.

Allan Hall

Books by Allan Hall

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