Natascha

Kampusch
Kristijan Boinovi
Karla Garac
Helena Kubiek

EARLY LIFE
Natascha Maria Kampusch was born on
February 17, 1988 in Vienna
Her family included mother Brigitta, father
Ludwig and two older sisters
Her parents would slap and insult her
By the age of 10 she was a compulsive
eater, depressed and lonely

KIDNAPPING
On the morning of 2nd March 1998 she went to school
A 12-year-old witness reported having seen her being
dragged into a white minibus
In police investigation 776 white minivans were
examined

Kidnapper
Wolfgang Priklopil, 44 at the time she
escaped
a computer technician and property
developer

Cellar
He drove her to his home and carried her into a tiny
cellar room
Itwas beneath a trapdoor in the garage, down some
stairs, through a hollowed-out concrete wall hidden on
the other side of a small metal hatch concealed behind
a cupboard
It was five by five metres, bare, soundproofed,
windowless and filled with the constant irritating rattle
of aplastic ventilator fan.

Captivity

 For the first six months of captivity, Natascha

was not allowed to leave the chamber
She started spending increasing amounts of time
in the rest of the house
In later years, she was seen outside alone

 After her eighteenth birthday, she was

allowed to leave the house with Priklopil

He later took her on a skiing trip near

Vienna

 I always had the thought: surely I didnt

come into the world so I could be locked up
and my life completely ruined.
I always felt like a poor chicken in a hen
house.

 Priklopil would beat her so badly she could

hardly walk
Then he would take his camera and
photograph her
Priklopil had raped her several times during
her captivity

Escape
On 23 August 2006, Natascha was cleaning and
vacuuming her kidnapper's car when someone called
Priklopil on his mobile phone and he walked away to take
the call.
Natascha left the vacuum cleaner running and ran away
Neighbour called the police
At the time she was 18 years old, weighed only 48 kg
and grew only 15 cm since 1998
Priklopil killed himself by jumping in front of a train

- It was determined that Priklopil

acted alone.

After escape

- According to police she cried when

she was told he was dead, but has
referred to her captor as a
"criminal.
- Her first interview was on 6
September 2006 and was made by
Austrian public broadcaster.

- Money from selling the interview

was donated to women in Africa and
Mexico

Her first book was published in September 2010, book is about her
imprisoment for 3096 days while she was treated as a slave, was coerced,
beaten, raped and tortured.

- It was adapted into a German movie, 3096 days, in 2013.

10 years later

Natascha has written a new book Ten years of freedom in which she
recounts the difficulties she has faced getting her life back on track.

For magazin The Sun she said: I stayed strong when I was captive and
managed to keep my identity and inner strength. When I freed myself, I
was in the focus of the worlds media and I lost my self-esteem because
of the questions that were asked about me. Now Ive won it back. I know
my own place in society. My personality is clearer. Im more confident.

Natascha own the house in which she was imprisoned, because it

was awarded to her as compensation from Priklopils estate after he
died.

She visit it every two months.

House is not useful for her but she did not want it to get in wrong
hands.

In past few years she has been working in digital marketing in

Vienna and has devoted herself to charity work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6MFBBG_n8

Thank you for

your attention!