pinkpapers: The Austrian Ogre: The Case That Shocked the World

Until that moment all that the police had known about the man in their custody were that he was 73 years old, that at the age of 22 he had met and married an 18-year-old kitchen assistant from Linz whose name was Rosemarie, ..... the Austrian newspapers Kronen Zeitung and Osterreich reported that he had revealed to a prison psychiatrist that he had kept her locked up in an attic room at Number 40 Ybbsstrasse for perhaps all of 20 years and until she died in 1980. ...