Natascha Kampusch

From left: Elizabeth Smart, Shawn Hornbeck, Natascha Kampusch Jacyee case offers hope to families Schoolgirl Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom in Salt Lake City by an armed man in June 2003. As Jaycee Lee Dugard is reunited with her family nearly 20 years after she was abducted, Sky News Online looks at other missing children who have been found. The 14-year-old was found nine months later just 20 miles away. Brian David Mitchell, a street preacher who believed in polygamy and thought he was a prophet, was charged along with his wife Wanda Brazee with aggravated kidnapping. The pair are still in ... Read Full Story

By Allan Hall Last updated at 1:02 PM on 10th August 2009 Add to My Stories At risk: Natascha Kampusch is in danger of being murdered, an inquiry into her kidnapping has claimed Austrian cellar captive Natascha Kampusch is living in danger of being murdered at any time by the accomplice of her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil, it was claimed today. Johann Rzeszut, a member of the commission of inquiry into the case, has written a letter to an Austrian newspaper stating his fears for her life. Mr Rzeszut backed the findings of the commission's leader Ludwig Adamovich who said it would have been 'impossible' ... Read Full Story

Natascha Kampusch is likely to be questioned again about her bunker ordeal A dormant investigation into one of Austria’s most notorious kidnap cases is likely to be reopened after suggestions that Natascha Kampusch, the schoolgirl who vanished for eight years, was not held in a cellar throughout her ordeal as had been widely believed and may have been the victim of a paedophile ring rather than of a lone perpetrator. Kampusch, 21, has never given a full account of her missing years and is expected to be questioned again about gaps in her testimony. She was seized as a 10-year-old on her way to ... Read Full Story

By Allan Hall Last updated at 8:30 AM on 25th July 2009 Add to My Stories A girl who was imprisoned in a cellar for eight and-a-half years is coping with her ordeal - by returning to clean her captor’s house. Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of ten and held captive by a pervert called Wolfgang Priklopil, became famous around the world when she escaped in August 2006. Her captor committed suicide by throwing himself under a train following her breakout and in May last year authorities in Austria sold her his house at a knock-down price. Tidy: Miss Kampusch cleans ... Read Full Story

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