A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.

*Update to this story here. picked by dollyllama 3 weeks ago

A father who said he was upset with his teenage daughter for text-messaging a boy has been arrested on charges of killing the girl, whose burned body was found stuffed in the boiler of his apartment building, police said. picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

I'm not sure if this belongs in g.r.i.n. considering the gravity of the reasons but I'm very glad to know this has happened.

Update to this story. picked by dollyllama 2 months ago

Elizabeth Fritzl revealed yesterday that she was forced to dig out the chambers by hand, working for hours at a time over the course of nearly a decade. picked by tigertony 1 week ago

A father in Oregon is accused of raping girls as young as 14, with the help of his son.

Authorities say the two men are facing sex charges involving at least a half-dozen underage girls. picked by mutil8or 1 month ago

A Vietnamese woman who travelled to Taiwan to find the father she had never met, ended up working for him without knowing it.

Chance or help from above? picked by tigertony 4 months ago

A Sheboygan woman[what an a**hole} shot her 8-year-old daughter in the leg with a BB gun to win a $1 bet with her boyfriend[whatana**hole}, authorities said Friday picked by mutil8or 2 weeks ago

When it comes to kissing babies, Barack Obama is a pro. Rudy Giuliani? Not so much.

That's what freelance journalist Darren Garnick found when he embarked upon an unusual quest — to get every presidential candidate to pose for a picture with his infant daughter, Dahlia. picked by muppet 4 months ago

A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion.

David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only. picked by AutumnLotus 4 weeks ago

A cat is recovering after a 3-year-old boy put it into a microwave and turned it on. picked by dollyllama 3 weeks ago

A woman accused of killing her month-old daughter in a microwave told her boyfriend that the girl would still be alive if he had not been out cheating, the boyfriend has told an Ohio court. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

A Waukegan woman charged with fatally stabbing her 6-year-old daughter initially told police the girl was possessed, attacked her with a knife in bed and slammed her into a wall before the mother grabbed the weapon and slashed the girl's neck picked by doggylives 1 month ago

'I don't know why it was so,' she has told detectives. 'My father simply chose me for himself.' picked by Bornbad 2 weeks ago

Father and son have matching tattoos. Aren't they precious?

*Florida* picked by SparklyEyedGal181 2 months ago

A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she'd be arrested. picked by dollyllama 3 months ago

A Winter Haven man was charged with murder, accused of fatally beating his 4-month-old daughter because he wanted a son, authorities said.

*yes, you guessed where. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 4 weeks ago

A Philadelphia man who spent many hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox.

Follow-up: picked by mysterio 4 months ago

Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years picked by deepcleanfun 7 days ago

He got thousands of pounds of funding made available by the authorities to create nuclear shelters in the Seventies Cold War era. picked by tigertony 2 weeks ago