• Leftovers

    UK Female Pioneers Get Own Stamps • Josef Fritzl Declared Clincally Sane

    • The British Royal Mail has issued stamps for six female pioneers, including family planning activist Marie Stopes and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. • Some activists, however, are upset about the inclusion of Ms. Stopes getting her own stamp since she famously supported eugenics and expressed Nazi sympathies later in her life. • An Australian PSA warns parents about buying alcohol for their kids by laying the blame on drunk girls (and their parents) who get raped at parties. • A 72-year-old woman vacated her apartment in Delaware when she discovered six baby snakes in her bathroom and bed last month. • More »
  • Flowers in the Cellar

    Central Europe Is Becoming The Terrifying Incest Capital Of The World

    Consider Jezebel your source for all nightmare-inducing horrific incest dungeon stories, because there's another one hitting European papers: A 45-year-old Polish man named Krzysztof B. has held his now 21-year-old daughter Alicja captive since 2002 in their rural home. In that time, he's allegedly fathered Alicja's two children and forced her to give them up for adoption. Sound vaguely familiar? Well Krzysztof is being called "Polish Fritzl" after the terrifying Austrian psycho Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children by his captive daughter, Elisabeth. And speaking of the unfortunate Fritzl clan, 42-year-old Elisabeth, who was held captive for more than two decades, has finally spoken publicly about her father's ultra-violence. More »
  • mamma mia!

    Italian Woman Held Captive Nearly Two Decades For Having Bastard Baby

    And you thought it was just the Austrians who were sick fucks: 47-year-old Maria Monaco of Italy, much like 42-year-old Elisabeth Fritzl of Austria, was found captive in her mother's house after 18 years of imprisonment. Upon receiving an anonymous tip, police found Monaco locked in a room where she was "surrounded by filth and cigarette butts," according to the IHT. At left, you'll see a photo of the noxious bathroom attached to Monaco's locked bedroom. While police suspect that Maria's mother, Anna Rosa Golino, had imprisoned Maria because she had a child out of wedlock, the family is insisting that Maria was locked up because she had severe mental problems. Gianfranco Carbone, Golino's lawyer, told the IHT, "The family was only trying to be discreet… [Maria] has serious psychological problems and refused to undergo any therapy. The family was ashamed for her." More »
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    Paparazzi Hound Rape Victim Elisabeth Fritzl Into Public Press Appearance

    Celebrities know what they're getting into, paparazzi apologists will argue, dismissing the constant haranguing mega-stars and their reality TV counterparts experience at the hands of photographers. But Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in the family cellar for 24 years by her deranged father, Josef, and in the meantime impregnated with seven children against her will, never asked for any publicity, and yet, photographers are camped outside the private hospital she's been living in since she and her children surfaced last month. Elisabeth has reportedly agreed to a television interview, and people close to the case think she has submitted to a public appearance merely to get rid of the constant swarm of aggressive lensmen. Seventeen photographers have been arrested so far, according to the Daily Mail, and just this past weekend "a security guard at the hospital was injured after he fell from a balcony while tackling a photographer." More »