Girl in the Cellar (25 page)

separation from Brigitta 5, 8, 10, 87

visits Hungary with NK 5–6, 7, 11, 14–18, 25, 28, 72, 73, 74, 146, 233

arguments with NK 10, 78

and NK's electric car 13–14, 206, 234, 235

relationship with NK 16, 17–18, 29, 85, 141–2, 235–6, 251–2

alleged to have taken NK to adult discos 20

friendship with Schimanek 24

at Christine's bar 64, 66, 68, 144, 176

on Husek 66–7

told of NK's disappearance 85

effect of NK's kidnap 86–7

loss of his businesses after the kidnap 3, 12, 93

efforts to find NK 93

eliminated as a suspect 140

and Poechhacker 141–2, 156, 157

accuses Brigitta, then retracts accusation 147

appeals for sponsors to a reward fund 151

reunited with NK 205–6, 213

complains that he is unable to see his daughter 213–14

perplexed by the media circus 232–3

NK visits 233–5

on NK's plans 250, 251

Koch, Ludwig, snr (NK's paternal grandfather) 4–5

Koenig, Rudolf 130

Korneuburg Hospital, near Vienna 86, 132

Krampl, Manfred 58, 63

Kreditbanken robbery, Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm (1973) 105

Kreuzlwiese, Vienna 154

Kriminaldirektion 1 police station, Berggasse, Vienna 205

Kronen Zeitung
75, 80, 146, 154, 174, 218, 258

Kurier
newspaper 141, 239

 

labile personality 95–6

Lang, General-Major Gerhard 108–9, 134, 169–70, 247

Langenzersdorf 147

Lansky, Dr Gabriel 174–5, 219, 231

Lansky, Ganzger & Partners 212

Lassing mining disaster (1999) 121

Laxenburg Cemetery, Austria 210

Leibovici-Mühlberger, Dr Martina 239–40

Leutgeb, Rupert 211

lie-detector tests 142–3

Linz hospital, Austria 257

 

Malik, Georgine 48–50

Mansfield, Penny 11–12

Margareten district, Vienna 36

Maria K. 211

Maria Theresien barracks, Vienna 53

Martynova, Katya 254

May, Karl 106

Meals on Wheels 84

MISPER (missing person's) investigation 129, 138

Mokhov, Viktor 254, 255

Mueller, Thomas 102, 148–9

Beast Man
149

Muschi (a cat) 12–13

 

Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita
181–4

Natascha Kampusch Syndrome 256, 257

Natascha task force 18, 137–8, 143, 144, 151, 157

National Crime Squad 204

Nazi Holocaust ix

Netherlands: child abuser rings 130

News Magazine
110, 218, 230

Norchack, Ned 258

Nyoger, Sarvar, western Hungary 6

 

Ö1 radio station 175

One Plus One 11

ORF 131, 145, 150, 205, 218, 229

 

paedophilia 153, 177–84

Palfrader, Christine 65–6, 198–9

Paschinger, Roland 51–2

Perfume
(film) 242–3

Pichler, Liane 89–90

Pintertis, Monica 216, 230

Planet Music, Vienna 13

Plasch, Franz 154–5

Poechhacker, Walter 134, 141–5, 156–8

The Natascha Case
159

Poland: extermination camps in ix

Prague 137

Prater amusement park, Vienna 153, 202

Priklopil, Johann 37

Priklopil, Karl (WP's father)

works for brandy firm 35, 39

his best friend Ehler 35–6

relationship with WP 37, 39, 53–4, 55, 56, 176

tidiness 49

and the illicit shelter 56

death 49, 56

funeral 36

Priklopil, Oskar 37, 55–6

Priklopil, Waltraud (WP's mother) 111

part-time shop assistant in Vienna 35

personality 35

relationship with WP 37, 38–9, 52, 58, 96, 176, 193

visits her son at Heinestrasse 40, 50, 113–14, 116–17, 175

worries about her son 49

returns to her council flat 57

NK is shown photos of her 113

attends her son's burial 209, 210

forced into hiding 52

NK's sympathy for her 217, 221, 261, 262

NK wants to meet her 228, 260

Priklopil, Wolfgang

birth (14 May 1962) 35

personality 33, 34, 37, 39, 46, 47–8, 51–5, 83, 95, 96–7

his name 34

told Ehler's story 36

childhood and education 37–9, 40

relationship with his mother 37, 38–9, 52, 58, 96, 176, 193

relationship with his father 37, 39, 53–6, 176

interests 37, 41, 53, 54–5, 57, 62

cruelty to animals 38, 41, 59, 149

technical ability 38, 49, 67, 177

appearance 39–40, 49, 65–6, 101

apprenticeship at Siemens 40–41, 52–3, 171

views on women 41, 44, 55

plan to kidnap a girl and hold her hostage 41, 42, 44–5, 46, 58–9, 69, 189

military service 53, 57

works at Kapsch electronics company 54

and father's death 56

lives alone at Heinstrasse 57

business partnership with Holzapfel 62, 71, 115, 171, 248

referred to as a homosexual 62

converts his cellar into a dungeon 34, 45, 57, 63

kidnaps NK in a white van (2 March 1998) x, xi, 69, 76–81, 215, 248

relationship with NK 27, 45, 47, 81, 103–4, 117, 192, 195, 204, 205, 207, 215, 217, 220–21, 230, 232, 244–5, 260

finger injury 86, 132

NK spots his deficiencies from the outset 95, 97, 113

his Commodore 64 computer 101, 176–7

NK allegedly manipulates xiii–xiv, 113, 122–3

physical aspect of the relationship 109–110, 179, 182, 232

allows NK to use his nickname (Wolfi) 115

warns NK of booby traps 115–16

trips with NK to the outside world 119, 127, 163–8, 170–71, 173, 175, 245

questioned by the police 133–5, 139

mobile phone call allows NK to escape x, 168, 190–92, 200, 216, 221

police chase 198–200

last image of him 200

final contact with Holzapfel 200–202, 217

suicide xiii, 46, 110, 121, 193, 202–3, 208–9, 209, 216, 217, 223–4, 225, 249, 250, 255

anonymous burial 209–210

Stern
alleges SM connection 245–7

Priklopil family 57, 113, 140, 175

Profil
magazine 20

profiling 152–3

psychics 87, 88, 121, 149–51

Psycho
(film) 33

psychopathy 42

 

Rennbahnweg estate, Donaustadt, Vienna 24, 64, 65

Flat 18, block 38 2–3, 8, 72

police station 130–31

white van seen at time of kidnap 138

Resan construction and renovation company 62

Roth, Eli 258

Rudolfsheim district, Vienna 191

Rugierstrasse (No. 30), Vienna 64

Priklopil family's council flat 37, 52

remains WP's mother's home 52, 57

very near to NK's school 57

 

St Anna Children's Hospital, Vienna 141

St Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna 154, 155

Salzburger Nachrichten
255

Sarvar, western Hungary 6

SB
see
Wiener Sicherheitsbüro

Scharlachberg (brandy maker) 35

Scherz, Dr Hannes 85, 135–7, 140, 152, 157

Schimanek, Lotte 24

Schimanek, Wenzel 24–6

Schloâam Woerthersee, Ein
(‘A Castle by Lake Woerther' film) 13

Schotterteich gravel-pit pond, near Vienna 222

Schriefl, Alexandra 85–6, 158

Schwärzler, Philipp 185–6

Scotland Yard, London 131

Siemens 40, 41, 52, 54, 62, 171

Simakhine, Elena 253–5

Sirny, Brigitta (NK's mother) 157, 227, 231, 232, 248, 259

her two daughters prior to NK 3, 4, 8

relationship with Ludwig Koch 3–4, 5, 8, 11, 26

rows with Ludwig xv, 11, 12, 18, 26, 90

separation from Ludwig 5, 8, 10

frequent absence from the household 11, 18, 24, 26, 28–9, 73

rows with NK 7, 10, 26, 72, 75–6, 78, 87

and alleged pornographic photographs 18–19

male friends 20, 22, 24, 26, 66–7, 68, 143–4, 145–6

grocery shops 67, 72

and the Schimaneks 25, 26

relationship with NK 28, 29, 74, 83, 223

at Christine's bar 64, 144

on NK's first words to WP 79

visits the police station on NK's disappearance 85, 130–31, 132

effect of NK's kidnap 86–9, 93–5

efforts to find NK 87–8

Woman
interview 91–3

as a potential suspect 140, 144, 145, 151

use of the media 145, 212–13

accuses Ludwig 146

appeals for sponsors to a reward fund 151

reunion with NK 206, 211

on NK's diet in captivity 207

complains that unable to see her daughter 212–13

denies knowing WP 247

Sirny, Claudia (NK's half-sister) 3, 4, 8, 11, 236–7

and alleged pornographic photographs 19, 22

Sirny, Sabine (NK's half-sister) 3, 4, 8, 11, 236–7

skiing ‘holiday'
see
Hochkar, Austria

Skopin, Russia 254

Sonderkommision (SOKO) 91

Sperl, Gerfried 160

Spiegel, Der
231

Standard, Der
160

Stau, Nicole 86

Stefan, Christa 58, 166–7, 249

Stern
magazine 245–8

Stockholm Syndrome (Stockholming) 104–5, 117, 186, 204

Strack, Charlotte 52

Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Austria ix, 58, 81, 88, 120, 138, 165, 172, 249–50

Strasshof concentration camp, near Vienna ix, 51

Stuppäck, Christoph 186

Sureté 131

Swoboda, Marga 258–60

 

Task Force Natascha
see
Natascha task force

Third Man, The
(film) 202–3

Trnka, Franz 54–5

 

Ulm, Michael 89

University Clinic for Psychiatry, Salzburg 186

University Clinic for Youth Neuropsychiatry, Vienna 207

University of Rochester, New York 11

Unterweger, Jack 148

 

Vankin, Sam 96

Malignant Self Love—Narcissism Revisited
96

VICLAS (Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System) 148–9, 161

Vienna

slave labour in ix

described 1

red-light zones 34, 93

Frau Sirny searches for NK 87–8

Ludwig Koch searches for NK 93

protestors clash with police (2000) 121

prostitution 153

paedophiles 153

the flat in the Rudolfsheim district 168, 190, 201

at the centre of a story without parallel 203

NK's flat 236

sado-masochistic scene 245, 246

Vienna General Hospital (AKH) 219, 228, 240, 252

Vienna Institute of Forensic Medicine 209

Vienna Syndrome 104

Vienna University 208

 

Wabl, Martin 151

Weber, Brigitte 28–9

WEGA (Vienna Action Squad A) 137

Weisser Ring 210

Wels hospital, Austria 257

Wendelberger, Margit 210

West Bahnhof Station, Vienna 93, 153

White, Chris 199–200

Wiener Sicherheitsbüro (SB) 131–2, 135, 138, 141, 144, 145, 147, 156, 160

criminal psychology department 148–9

Homicide Commission 145

Willner, Guenter 90–91

Winter, Ernst 41, 52–3

Wirtschaftspolizei 159

Woerthersee, Carinthia, Austria 13

Wolfram-Ertl, Dr Eva 19–21

Woman
magazine 91–3

Wurm, Alfred 218, 230

 

Zabel, Franz 52

Zagreb, Croatia 148

Zapotoczky, Professor Johann 30

Zwettler, Erich 159, 197–8, 204