Eight years of darkness
On March 2, 1998, while on her way to school, ten-year-old Natascha
Kampusch was abducted. More than eight years later, on August 23, 2006,
she escaped with a story that shocked and horrified the entire world.
She spent the most delicate years of her life hidden in a cellar
underneath an ordinary Austrian suburban home. How was she able to
survive? What sort of woman had emerged? What kind of man was Wolfgang
Priklopil, her abductor--and what demands had he made of her?
Journalists Allan Hall and Michael Leidig covered Natascha's story from
the beginning. The result of extraordinary investigative reporting,
Girl in the Cellar gets to the heart of this very tragic case to
reveal a truth no one would have imagined.