Otto In The Attic Dolly

Dolly intended for sanhuber to help her fix a.

Otto in the attic dolly.

Notorious figure in one of the most bizarre murder cases ever. For five years dolly and otto carried on this odd relationship with otto living in the cramped attic. In 1913 oesterreich sent a 17 year old factory worker named otto sanhuber to his house to help dolly with her broken sewing machine at her request. Dolly deliberately chose a new house with an attic somewhat of a rarity in los angeles and once again otto moved in to resume their affair.

Dolly moved otto into the attic of her home where he lived in secret quitting his job and cutting himself off from everyone else for five years. Neighbors heard ominous crashing noises coming from the oesterreich house. Sanhuber was the man in the attic the live in lover of walburga dolly oesterreich. Otto locked her inside and placed the key outside the door before he returned to the attic to hide.

And very soon otto was contentedly snuggled away in his new cave. But when otto shoots fred dead she tries to pass it off as a robbery gone awry a claim that doesn t sit well with chief detective herman who tenaciously pursues the case. So when fred informed dolly in 1918 that he thought they should sell the house and move to los angeles things could have gotten complicated. Instead dolly found a house overlooking sunset boulevard with an attic and sent otto there early so he d be waiting for her when she arrived.

Versions of how the two met vary. Dolly found a charming residence featuring an attic room right above the master bedroom. Walburga dolly oesterreich c 1880 1961 was an american housewife married to a wealthy textile manufacturer. He lived in the attic of the very much married dolly for twenty years while dolly lived downstairs with her husband fred oesterreich.

Fred was an apron manufacturer described as a skinflint with an iron will the pair lived in milwaukee wisconsin where dolly is believed to have had several brief extramarital affairs before she met then 17 year old otto sanhuber around 1913. Stymied in her marriage to her wealthy but boorish husband fred sultry and seductive dolly keeps her young love slave otto hidden away in her attic for years. She gained notoriety for her bizarre 10 year affair with otto sanhuber which culminated in the shooting death of her husband. On august 22 1922 after overhearing a loud argument between the oesterreichs and believing dolly to be in danger of physical harm sanhuber rushed from the attic with 25 caliber pistols in hand.

The little household hummed away nicely until the night of august 22 1922.