Les Jones

True Crime > The Man in the Attic

Last week in Nashville there was a strange murder case. A man heard a noise in his bedroom closet. When he investigated he found a man who turned out to be his wife's boyfriend. The sounds he heard were snoring. The boyfriend had been sleeping in the closet for a month. The husband ordered his wife to get rid of the man, and left the house to cool off. When he returned, the boyfriend beat him to death.

Strange as that is, it's been done before. In the comments at Michael Silence's blog Doxigrafix posted a link to the case of Otto Sanhuber, the original Man in the Attic. He lived in the attic of his married lover Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich for almost 20 years before being discovered. When Dolly's husband Fred heard noises she'd convince him he was tired, drunk, or crazy. The Oesterreichs moved several times during those 20 years, and each time Dolly would make sure the new house had an attic.

UPDATE April 19: More on the Nashville case.