Who Is Natascha Kampusch?

• A large portion of Kampusch's time upstairs was spent doing

housework for Přiklopil and cooking for him. Kampusch told that
Přiklopil "would beat her so badly she could hardly walk.
• Přiklopil had warned Kampusch that the doors and windows of the
house were booby-trapped with high explosives. He also claimed to
be carrying a gun and that he would kill her and the neighbours if
she attempted to escape.
• In her autobiography she tells how she was beaten up to 200 times
a week, chained to her captor while they slept together in his bed,
and forced to shave off her hair and work half-naked as a domestic
slave.
 Escape

• The 18-year-old Kampusch reappeared on 23 August 2006.

• When Kampusch was cleaning and vacuuming her kidnapper's BM r in the
garden, Přiklopil got a call on his mobile phone. Because of the vacuuming noise,
he walked away to take the call. Kampusch left the vacuum cleaner running and
ran away, unseen by Přiklopil, who, according to the caller, completed the phone
call without any sign of being disturbed or distracted. Kampusch ran for some 200
metres through gardens and a street, jumping fences, and asking passers-by to
call the police, but they paid her no attention.
• After about five minutes, she knocked on the window of a 71-year-old neighbour
saying, "I am Natascha Kampusch". The neighbour called the police. Later,
Kampusch was taken to the police station in the town of Deutsch-Wagram.
 Kidnapper
• Wolfgang Přiklopil (14 May 1962 – 23 August 2006) was an Austrian
communication technician. Přiklopil was born to Karl and Waltraud
Přiklopil, in Vienna, and was an only child.
• Before Kampusch escaped, Přiklopil was trying to procure false papers
as a Czech citizen, in order to "begin a new life" with Kampusch.
• Přiklopil, knowing that the police were after him, killed himself by
jumping in front of a suburban train near the Wien Nord station in
Vienna. He had apparently planned to commit suicide rather than be
caught, having told Kampusch that "they would not catch him alive".
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On 15 April 2012, a German newspaper reported that a movie based on her

autobiography with the same name was to be made, featuring Antonia Campbell-
Hughes as Kampusch and Thure Lindhardt as Přiklopil. The movie 3096 Tage (3096
days) was directed by Sherry Hormann and was released on 28 February 2013.
Kampusch's Reaction After Watching 3096 Days