KIDNAPPER Wolfgang Priklopil shot to the headlines over the abduction of a young girl for an eight-year period.
Priklopil abducted 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch in broad-daylight from the streets of Vienna.
Who was Wolfgang Priklopil?
Priklopil was born in Vienna in 1962.
It is said that he was somewhat of a loner who lived a life of solitude, not having much to do with anyone else.
He lived in the leafy Viennese suburb of Strasshof, just a normal house with neighbours unaware of the crimes taking place within.
What happened to Wolfgang Priklopil?
After Natascha Kampusch escaped, Priklopil is reported to have committed suicide, with his decapitated corpse found on a railway track nearby.
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He had told his victim previously, when discussing the potential for police catching him, that "they would not catch him alive".
Once he noticed that Kampusch had escaped, his first instinct was to flee the scene, knowing that his arrest was imminent.
His car was found abandoned in a park later that day.
He had managed to evade police until he reached the Wien Nord station in Vienna, where it is alleged he killed himself by jumping under a train.
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However, after the alleged suicide of Priklopil, two coroners who examined the case files determined that he might have been murdered.
It is claimed that Priklopil was already dead when his body was put on the railway tracks.
What happened to Natascha Kampusch?
Kampusch did not take the news of his death well and accused police of killing him and demanded to be left alone with the coffin to pray for him.
According to police she cried inconsolably when she was told he was dead and lit a candle for him at the morgue.
Some have suggested that she was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, causing her to feel empathy for her captor.
However, Kampusch dismissed this as not the case.
She suggests that people who use this term about her are disrespectful and do not allow her the right to describe and analyse the complex relationship that she had with her kidnapper in her own words.
Since his death, Natascha Kampusch claimed the house from Priklopil's estate because she wanted to protect it from vandals and being torn down.
She still lives at the property at weekends because she feared it would "become a theme park".
Kampusch still cleans the house to the exact specification thatWolfgang Priklopil demanded of her.
Since her ordeal, she has gone on to write two books about the 8 years of hell she endured entitled "3,096 Days" and "10 Years of Freedom".
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