One uncharacteristically hot autumn day in 1913 dolly asked fred to send one of the factory s repairmen to the house to fix her sewing machine.
Dolly and otto attic.
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.
When 17 year old otto sanhuber knocked on the.
Dolly found a charming residence featuring an attic room right above the master bedroom.
Sanhuber would quit his job and move into the oesterreichs attic.
Fred never went up there and the lovers could continue their tryst safely out of sight from prying eyes.
The little household hummed away nicely until the night of august 22 1922.
For five years dolly and otto carried on this odd relationship with otto living in the cramped attic.
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 aka.
Dolly had a solution.
Walburga dolly oesterreich née korschel.
Neighbors heard ominous crashing noises coming from the oesterreich house.
When he had to hide in the attic fred wrote pulp fiction pursuing his dream of author glory.
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.
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.
When the oesterreichs made the decision to leave their milwaukee home and move to los angeles dolly had to move her lover with them.
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.
She made sure the home she and her husband were moving to had an attic for otto and had otto move in first before she and fred did.
1880 german empire april 8 1961 los angeles california was an american housewife married to a wealthy textile manufacturer fred william oesterreich december 8 1877 august 22 1922.
And very soon otto was contentedly snuggled away in his new cave.
In 1918 fred and dolly moved to los angeles with otto following close behind.
Not long after they settled into the house otto took up residency in their attic.
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.
Otto weir walter klein 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 came rushing down from the attic a pair of 25 caliber pistols in hand.