Posted on 08/24/2006 5:41:00 PM PDT by Deo volente
Eight years ago, on March 2 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch kissed goodbye to her mother Brigitte and set off from her home in Vienna to school. She never made it. Her disappearance sparked one of the biggest ever hunts in Austria. But despite teams of detectives following thousands of leads there was no trace of Natascha - a shy, attractive schoolgirl with light brown hair, who left home without her Gameboy and beloved cuddly mouse.
Until, that was, Wednesday lunchtime, when an elderly neighbour phoned police to say she had found a pale young woman in distress. The woman had a scarcely believable story - that she had just escaped from a man who had held her prisoner in his garage for more than eight years.
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God bless this girl and her family.........they're going to need His help in a big way.
As a Catholic I believe he's in hell for taking his own life. Not that he didn't deserve it for what he did to this poor girl. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
SD
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