An Austrian man who held a young woman captive for more than eight and a half years may have been involved in a child pornography ring, police said today.

AN investigation into the kidnapping of schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch has been reopened in Austria to determine whether more people were involved.

AUSTRIAN Josef Fritzl has secretly visited the cellar where he imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, police said yesterday.

This week’s appalling discoveries in the Austrian town of Amstetten recall the case of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who spent eight years largely confined to an underground room in a Vienna suburb.

A woman was held captive in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered at least six children, police said.

The young Austrian woman who became world-famous after being kidnapped and kept in a cell for more than eight years is to get her own TV show.

A TEENAGER who escaped after being held for more than eight years in a dingy cell said she considered her captor a “poor soul” and once cynically told him she would dance on his grave some day.

A teenager who escaped after she was held for more than eight years in a dingy cell said she considered her captor a “poor soul” and once cynically told him she would dance on his grave some day.

The mother of a young woman who survived more than eight years years of captivity in an underground cell released a book today detailing what she went through during her daughter’s absence.

THE cramped, underground cell where an Austrian teenager was held captive for more than eight years might never have been discovered even if police had searched the house, an investigator said yesterday.

The cramped, underground cell where an Austrian teenager was held captive for more than eight years might never have been discovered even if police had searched the house, an investigator said today.

The Vienna public prosecutor’s office announced today that it had closed the case of the Austrian teenager who was abducted and held captive for more than eight years before she escaped in August.

The Austrian teenager who was held captive for just over eight years said she wants ownership of the house she was locked up in so that her captor’s mother can live there, a newspaper reported tonight.

The Austrian teen held in an underground cell for more than eight years went to a morgue to pay her last respects to her captor, police disclosed today.

THE young Austrian woman imprisoned for eight-and-a-half years in an underground cell told journalists that she “thought only of escape” during her entire ordeal, and once tried to jump out of her captor’s car.

Repeatedly shutting her eyes against the glare of TV cameras, the Austrian teenager imprisoned for more than eight years described in a nationally-broadcast interview today the horror of being locked into her dark underground cell for the first time.

The young Austrian woman imprisoned for eight and a half years in an underground cell “thought only of escape” during her entire ordeal, she told a magazine in an interview published today.

THE young Austrian woman who endured more than eight years in captivity has adopted a “reserved attitude” toward her parents since her dramatic escape from her kidnapper last week, psychologists treating her said yesterday.

The man who held a girl captive for more than eight years in Austria spent some of his last hours in a panicked state, driving around Vienna with a friend, before he committed suicide, a friend said today.

Austrian investigators were today due to resume questioning of the kidnap victim who escaped a week ago after being held captive for more than eight years by a man who committed suicide hours after she slipped to safety.

AN Austrian teenager who spent eight years in a dingy underground cell until her dramatic escape last week has defended her captor as “part of my life”, insisting that she didn’t miss anything during her long ordeal.

An Austrian teenager who spent eight years in a dingy underground cell until her dramatic escape last week issued a statement today defending her captor as “part of my life” and insisting she did not miss anything during her long ordeal.

Tests on DNA taken from the man who enslaved a young girl for eight years show he was not involved in any other known crimes, police said Saturday.

Austrian police today said they were "quite sure" a young woman found this week was Natascha Kampusch who vanished on her way to school on March 2, 1998, when she was 10.

Austrian authorities today said a young woman found near Vienna had been identified as a girl who went missing more than eight years ago.