A jury in the town of Sankt Poelten unanimously found the 73-year-old Austrian engineer guilty of murdering one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter Elizabeth, who he kept locked up in a dungeon below his garden for 24 years, raping her repeatedly. The court ordered a life sentence.
Austrian media said Fritzl is likely to be placed in the Goellersdorf asylum, home to the infamous Robert Ackermann, nicknamed the Cannibal of Vienna.
Ackerman was convicted in 2007 at the age of 19 of murdering his roommate Josef Schweiger in a mental asylum, and eating his brain. According to eyewitnesses, Ackerman would prowl the grounds naked at night, howling at the moon.
According to national media, Ackerman has openly boasted of plans cook Fritzl alive.
The high-security institution nevertheless offers far more agreeable conditions than those suffered by Elizabeth and the three children who remained below-ground with her during her ordeal.
While the secret family survived in a 60-square-meter low-ceilinged enclosure, never seeing the light of day, Fritzl is set to live out his remaining days on the site of a Renaissance castle, with regular group therapy, and access to table tennis, Tai Chi, theater groups, and gardening activities.
