Natascha Kampusch

By Allan Hall Last updated at 5:50 PM on 15th December 2009 Add to My Stories Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch is to meet the mother of her kidnapper for the first time since she escaped the man's clutches more than three years ago. Waltraud Priklopil, 67, was a frequent visitor to her son Wolfgang's home on the outskirts of Vienna during the eight-and-a-half years he kept Natascha prisoner in a secret cellar. Although allowed to roam the house... Read Full Story

A top investigator is fined in the case of Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl who was held in a cellar for more than eight years. Read Full Story

Long before Josef Fritzl and the horrendous crimes in his dungeon, Austria was maligned for its Nazi past, its right-wing politics and another high-profile abduction case. Now that Fritzl has been sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward, a nation wearied and wounded by yet another dark episode seems desperate to move on. "We are glad it ended so quickly," Chancellor Werner Faymann said Friday of Fritzl's four-day trial. To those portrayed 73-year-old Fritzl as the monstrous product of a... Read Full Story

This story is, of course, all over the news and the Internet, and by now, the facts are pretty well known, as summarized by the BBC , “A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said. Police said Josef Fritzl also admitted burning the body of a baby that died at the house in Amstetten, Lower Austria. Mr Fritzl has been taken to court while authorities are caring for the woman, now 42, and her... Read Full Story

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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story

Linked from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6192433.stm --- Austrian former kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has said she is finding it hard to adjust to her new life. In an interview with Austrian television, she said she could not yet face going out alone four months after escaping from her captor. She also said she found being in large groups of people overwhelming. She was forced to live in a cell beneath a house garage from 1998 until she escaped in August. Her captor killed... Read Full Story

By Allan Hall Last updated at 11:20 AM on 24th October 2008 Add to My Stories Natascha Kampusch has always said there was only one man involved in her kidnapping Police in today reopened the criminal probe into the Natascha Kampusch kidnap case –  so throwing into question the girl's previous evidence. The new investigation seeks to prove her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil had an accomplice, believed to be his former business partner Ernst Holzapfel. Austrian... Read Full Story