The strange story of Walburga österreich, which for years kept a secret lover in the attic

From time to time emerge details of some murders that are so strange that it seems that they were invented in the office of one of Hollywood writers. But in the case of Walburga österreich nicknamed Dolly here was everything: the sinister secret affair, and a shocking murder, and the absolute accuracy of the facts connected with its history.

Walburga's österreich, nicknamed Dolly, who emigrated from Germany, grew up on a farm in the Midwest in poverty. However, everything changed when in 1910 she married the wealthy owner of the factory, Fred Osterreich. He earned producing women's clothes, in particular kitchen apron. Fred had a large factory in Milwaukee, and the couple lived there for several years, then moved to Los Angeles.

From the outside, it looked as if Fred and Dolly österreich lead a pretty normal life. But in fact Fred was very drunk and he and his wife often argued. Over time, Dolly österreich has turned into a typical bored housewife and began to actively seek a love adventure. She laid eyes on 17-year-old repairman of sewing machines Otto Sanober, who worked at the factory for her husband in Milwaukee.

Sanober was tall, thin and quickly became involved in the personal life of Dolly. The novel began to turn, when Dolly called her husband at work to complain about a broken sewing machine, and then Sauber came to Osterreicher home to fix it. Dolly opened Sanober the door in a sexy nightgown and stockings. Since then, Sanober believed himself to be her sex slave.

Lovers indulged in the pleasures of the day, meeting in hotels and have a Dolly at home, while her husband was at work. After some time, the neighbors began to get suspicious and began to release comments to Fred about the fidelity of his wife. Dolly tried to pass his relationship with the young master for something more innocent than it actually is. She told friends and acquaintances that Sanober her lost half-brother.

In the end, Dolly österreich realized that she would have to plan to keep your lover to yourself, while no one questioned its morality. The decision was to settle Sanober in the attic, the more that the young man was all hands to throw your life down the drain for the dusty attic of Osterreich. He was obsessed with Dolly and used the opportunity to start writing dime novels. When the couple decided to move to Los Angeles, Dolly did everything possible to find a house with attic. At the time of the house with the attics were rare in Los Angeles, but Osterreicher managed to find this, and Sanober moved in before the family arrived in California.

The imprisonment of Sanober in the attic was really depressing: later edition of the Los Angeles Times described it as a nest, furnished with only a mattress, a chamber pot and a kerosene stove. When the young lover moved there, he took with him only a pitiful accessories for writing and reading materials, to have something to do while he's not busy fulfilling the desires of Dolly. He was not just a sexual slave, but it is a slave in the truest sense of the word. When he didn't spend time in bed with Dolly, he cooked, cleaned the house, making the bed, washing dishes and doing household chores.

A young man wanted to write romance novels, and some of his works were even published in magazines under a pseudonym. But Sanober almost no money, Dolly österreich never gave him more than a few quarters or dimes coins. She probably believed their society sufficient payment for services and kept the lover locked up in the attic that her husband went up the stairs and found his creepy lair.

It is not surprising that the affair between Dolly österreich and Canobeam could not last forever. One evening Ostarrichi had a terrible argument and Sauber came running down the stairs with two pistols 25 caliber in his hands. He entered into a scuffle with Fred and killed him, shot three times. Obviously, Fred was shocked by the sudden appearance of another man. Since he and Dolly moved to Los Angeles, he was constantly missing cigars and other things, and he heard strange noises at night. His wife blamed on a Ghost.

When Fred österreich died, Dolly and Sanuber had to work hard to make it look like a robbery. They took Fred's watch with diamonds, Sanober then locked Dolly into a closet and threw away the key. After this, he again climbed to the attic to hide, and eventually escaped from the crime scene before the police found him. For many years the crime remained unsolved and the police suspected Dolly, but couldn't figure out how she murdered her husband, if he was locked in a closet.

True to his character, Dolly österreich seduced his attorney Herman Shapiro. In the process of communication it several times talking, and eventually he began to suspect Dolly. First, he learned that Dolly still kept watch of her deceased husband, which, in theory, claimed robbers. Soon, the police attacked the trail and found a watch and two guns 25 caliber that Dolly in some incredible way, was persuaded to hide neighbors. Österreich put behind bars, and suddenly there was no one who would feed her hidden lover.

Dolly persuaded Shapiro to return to her house to feed her lover, while she is in jail. At some point, Shapiro was so mesmerized by Dolly, what really went in there to do what she commanded. However, this delusion was quickly shattered when he saw Sanuber, and began to learn the details of their strange relationship with Dolly. The lawyer found that he is the first person, aside from Dolly, with whom Sanober spoke in 10 years. He kicked the attic resident, "man — bat" from home and broke the connection with Dolly.

When the story hit the Newspapers, the life of Dolly österreich rolled into a ditch. Sanober scared that he will be charged with murder and fled the country, changed his name to Walter Klein and married another woman in Canada. Surely Mrs. Klein was a curious reaction when her husband again went into hiding and returned to Los Angeles, where he was caught and tried for the murder of Fred Osterreich. Although Sanober was arrested and convicted for murder, he was released due to a Statute of limitations of the crime. Dolly also got off easy when the jury during her trial did not reach consensus, and in 1936 she dropped the charges.

The fact that Dolly österreich and Sanober managed to escape from justice after the murder, is outrageous. They became known as one of the oddest couples in history. Society considered immoral Sanober a sexual deviant with an abnormal craving for life in the attic, and the term "man — bat" ("Bat Man"), as it was called, had not yet been associated with a superhero. After the incident Sanober hiding from society, and Dolly lived for the rest of my life with another lover and died peacefully in 1961.