Girl in the Cellar (14 page)

 

 

The sign at the town limits of Strasshof that Natascha was driven past by her kidnapper on the way to the cellar where she would spend the next eight years of her life.
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In the aftermath of her daughter's disappearance, Natascha's mother Brigitta Sirny displays one of the police missing posters put up across the capital.
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The missing poster that was posted on the Internet as the hunt for Natascha went international and fears grew she had been sold into the child sex trade.
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Wolfgang Priklopil's seemingly unremarkable home, where Natascha spent 3,096 days locked in a cellar.
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The stairs from the garage leading down to a small workshop where there was a concealed entrance to Natascha's dungeon.
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Priklopil's system of concealment was virtually foolproof. This is the cupboard in front of the hidden entrance.
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The last of four doors that leads from the antechamber to the tiny dungeon. One of the four cellar doors nearly severed Priklopil's finger in the early days of Natascha's imprisonment.
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Courtesy Bundeskriminalamt, Vienna

 

 

A graphic representation of Natascha's hidden dungeon home. The uniquely horrifying nature of her ordeal has been constantly stressed by all those who have been involved in the case.
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View from the entrance to the cellar room showing Natascha's elevated bed.
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The day before she was kidnapped, Natascha had told a friend she dreamed of having her own writing desk, not knowing how soon she would get her wish.
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A tiny space at the end of the hidden room was Natascha's bathroom and toilet with no barrier between it and the living area where she passed the time.
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