"Austrian details kidnap ordeal; Woman writes her survival story" by Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press | September 9, 2010
VIENNA — An Austrian woman kidnapped at age 10 says she was repeatedly beaten, starved, and forced to do housework half-naked during her eight and a half years at the mercy of a man who admired Hitler and considered himself an Egyptian god.
In a new book about her ordeal, Natascha Kampusch also describes how her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, shaved off all her hair and shackled her to him on his bed once she turned 14.
Priklopil snatched Kampusch off a Vienna street on her way to school in 1998 and held her prisoner in a dungeon under his suburban home until she fled in August 2006. He committed suicide within hours of her escape. The case horrified Austrians and made headlines globally.
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In “3,096 Days,’’ penned with the help of two authors, Kampusch describes Priklopil as a paranoid, unpredictable, and cleanliness-obsessed man who systematically tormented her physically and verbally....
I just hope it isn't another forgery.
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