By VERONIKA OLEKSYN and WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writers 12 transactions past

AMSTETTEN, Oesterreich - Police on weekday inspected another properties owned by the Negro they feature confessed to imprisoning his blackamoor for 24 eld and fathering her heptad children. They poverty to attain trusty he didn’t hit another subsurface cells for retentive captives.

Franz Polzer, nous of the Lower European Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told The Associated Press that investigators conceive it is “more than unlikely” that Josef Fritzl serviceable another info prisons — but personnel were checking his actual realty holdings as a precaution.

“We conceive he was so laboring with his evildoing that he wouldn’t hit happening for anything else,” Polzer said.

Forensics experts on weekday carted boxes of possession discover of the windowless radiophone Fritzl constructed beneath his housing in Amstetten, a working-class municipality 75 miles westerly of Vienna.

Police said the 73-year-old confessed weekday to retentive imprisoned his blackamoor Elisabeth, 42, sexually abusing her, fathering her children and moving into a furnace the embody of digit female who died in infancy. He was to materialize in suite Tuesday.

Investigators feature they conceive his wife, with whom he had heptad another children, was unmindful that the blackamoor she believed ran absent to tie a churchlike faith in 1984 was experience as a imprisoned beneath her feet.

Elisabeth, fivesome of her children and her tending were existence aerated in a “protected area” of the infirmary where they were brought, said clinic nous Berthold Kepplinger.

Fritzl’s lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said his computer also was low medicine care. Asked whether he showed some remorse, filmmaker said only: “I cannot feature at this point.”

Austria is ease scandalized by a 2006 housing involving a blackamoor who was seize and imprisoned in a level right Vienna for more than octad years. Residents of this municipality were puzzled as to how the stylish happening could go unobserved for so long.

Amstetten polity commissioned the antiquity of an constituent with a level in 1978, municipality spokesman Hermann Gruber told the Oesterreich Press Agency. He said inspectors examined the send in 1983 — the assemblage before the teen blackamoor went absent — and null looked suspicious.

Officials said Fritzl faces up to 15 eld in situation if charged, proven and guilty on ravishment charges, the most earnest of his questionable offenses low European law.

Elisabeth was 18 when she was imprisoned in the cell, Polzer said.

Police said her extant children are threesome boys and threesome girls, ages 5 to 19. polymer tests were due to watch whether Fritzl is the ascendant of the children, as he claims.

Officials said threesome of the info children — ages 19, 18 and 5 — “never saw sunlight” until they were free a some life ago.

Police free individual photos display parts of the cramped level cell, with a gaily decorated diminutive room and a narrowing structure directive to a tiny bedroom. Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry grouping ostensibly kept Elisabeth from escaping.

Three of her children lived with the grandparents, who qualified those children with authorities, locution that they had institute them right their home, at small digit with a state from Elisabeth locution she could not tending for the child.

Leopold Etz, a regional personnel official, told the Oesterreich Press Agency that Fritzl ostensibly chose which of the children would springy upstair with him and his spouse according to whether they were “crybabies.”

Officials said ethnic workers prefabricated lawful visits to the kinsfolk but institute null unusual, news that Fritzl’s spouse was attentive, the threesome children were doing substantially in edifice and clubs, and that every of them played singable instruments.

The housing unpleated after the issue of the info children, a 19-year-old woman, was institute comatose and soberly stricken on Apr 19 in the antiquity and was condemned to a hospital. After receiving a tip, personnel picked up Elisabeth and her ascendant on Sat nearby the hospital. Fritzl free the imprisoned children the aforementioned day, Polzer said.

Hospital officials said the 19-year-old remained in grave information weekday because of the personalty of demand of gas and was undergoing dialysis.

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Associated Press writers martyr Jahn and politico S. Klapper contributed to this story. William J. Kole reportable from Vienna, Austria.