CRIME HUNTER: Sex monster Josef Fritzl’s diary of debauchery

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The diseased mind of Austrian sex monster Josef Fritzl has been exposed in his new twisted memoir.

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Fritzl gained notoriety for imprisoning his own daughter for a staggering 24 years, using her as his sexual plaything and fathering seven children with his own flesh and blood.

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Now, the evil rapist is revealing the dark recesses of his troubled soul with a bleak memoir entitled Die Abgründe des Josef F (The Abysses of Josef F), recently published in Germany. Fritzl was assisted by Austrian lawyer Astrid Wagner.

Fritzl rose to infamy when he was exposed in 2009 for the decades-long debasement of his own daughter, Elisabeth. He was convicted of incest rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.

Elisabeth was just 18 when she vanished in 1984. No one really seemed to know she was missing. The young woman was kept captive by Fritzl in a secret cellar beneath her father’s home in Amstetten.

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“At first, it was just a mind game I played. But I got used to it. The idea, which had previously seemed so absurd, so monstrous to me, took shape,” Fritzl, now 87, writes.

“One day I knew what I had to do. All that remained was to wait for the right opportunity,” he writes. “On that rainy Saturday morning, the time had come. The thought had become action.”

The clandestine prison he constructed as part of his vile plan grew from sick musings to reality. Behind a heavy metal door, Elisabeth was left to rot away with only Fritzl having access using a secret code.

And he psychologically manipulated his daughter into believing she would be electrocuted by the “wired” door if she tried to escape.

“The next morning, I filed a missing person report with the local gendarmerie (police),” Fritzl writes. “The officer carefully logged everything and declared: ‘She’s over 18 and can do whatever she wants.’”

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These were the words Fritzl wanted to hear. He then had his daughter write her mom, saying she needed time away. As for neighbours, he told them she had joined a cult.

“It wasn’t easy, because the thoughts of what I had done were constantly circling within me,” he writes. “I was constantly energized. There was no one I could confide in. I had to look ahead and continue on the path I had chosen.”

He added: “When I was away, I pushed away all my problems. Also, my secret. Everything was far, far away. Otherwise, I would have gone crazy!”

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“Only sometimes when I was alone, gloomy thoughts haunted me. I immediately repressed them by distracting myself and thinking of something else …”

As for his sexual abuse, he writes that he rendered his daughter unconscious with an ether-soaked rag. What resulted was the birth of seven children — the product of incest. Three of the children stayed with their mother in the basement dungeon.

Fritzl would murder one of the babies, disposing of the body in an incinerator. Three were raised by Fritzl and his oblivious wife.

And the selfish Fritzl would go on holiday to exotic locales like Thailand. His victims were stuck with rotting food, sewage and a litany of other horrors.

According to Feritzl, he has been denied sympathy and understanding. When his life sentence ends next year, he plans to return to his hometown of Amstetten. Maybe he’ll start a small business, he mused.

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Fritzl is reportedly suffering from dementia. Lawyer Astrid Wagner doesn’t believe it.

“No, this old man here is far from being a helpless old man. I felt energy. Willpower. Determination. No trace of dementia,” she said.

Indeed. Fritzl had a long record of sex crimes before he locked away his own daughter.

In court, Fritzl diagnosed himself: “There is an evil streak lurking inside me. I’m a torn person, with passions I can’t control. I regret with all my heart what I did to my family. But, unfortunately, I can’t make up for it.”

His daughter Elisabeth now has a new identity, as do her children who were the result of evil.

MAN, 78, CAGED FOR LIFE IN OHIO COLD CASE KILLINGS

There likely isn’t much time left in the miserable life of Gustave Sapharas and what remains will be spent behind bars.

The 78-year-old Ohio man was convicted and caged for life for two cold case murders of young women in the Buckeye State in the 1970s. Sapharas, put quite simply, is a monster.

Karen Bentz was just 18 when she was discovered stabbed to death on April 28, 1970 in Summit County. Five years later, cops found the body of Loretta Jean Davis, 20, also stabbed to death on Sept. 28, 1975.

“There are real people out there still affected by this,” retired Summit County Captain Doug Bohon told reporters.

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