However still obsessed with her otto returned to dolly and to a hidden existence.
Dolly and otto the attic lover.
Instead dolly found a house overlooking sunset boulevard with an attic and sent otto there early.
But when otto shoots fred dead she tries to pass it off as a robbery gone awry a claim that doesn t sit well with.
Always one step ahead dolly sends otto to la in advance.
After the move dolly s husband starts drinking even more.
Lover in the attic dramatizes the case of walburga dolly and fred oesterrich whose marriage according to atlas obscura ended tragically when fred was killed by dolly s lover otto.
She sent sanhuber ahead and by the time the oesterreichs arrived the now 22 year old was already settled in his new home.
The new house must have an attic.
With molly burnett kevin fonteyne david fierro david alexander.
Walburga dolly oesterreich née korschel.
While otto is not naive enough to believe that dolly truly loves him he still dreams of the two of them ultimately living as man and wife.
Otto weir walter klein which culminated in the shooting death of her husband.
In 1923 the police found out about frank s watch and klumb following a volatile breakup with dolly confessed to disposing of the guns.
Directed by melora walters.
By the time she and her husband move into their new home he s already kicking it in the attic.
Stymied in her marriage to her wealthy but boorish husband fred sultry and seductive dolly keeps her young love slave otto hidden away in her attic for years.
This situation leads to otto being able to hear the goings on of dolly and fred while he is stuck in the attic at night and to indulge in writing he a fan of pulp crime fiction.
For five years dolly and otto carried on this odd relationship with otto living in the cramped attic.
According to the la times which reported on the murder in 1923 that evening dolly asked a third lover roy klumb to dispose of the murder weapons in the la brea tar pits.
1880 german empire april 8 1961 los angeles california was an american housewife married to a wealthy textile manufacturer fred william oesterreich december 8 1877 august 22 1922 she gained notoriety for her bizarre 10 year affair with otto sanhuber aka.
Dolly agreed to the move on the condition that the new house have an attic.
She made sure the home she and her husband were moving to had an attic for otto and had otto move in first before she and fred did.
After the murder otto actually fled california and dolly found new lovers including lawyer harold shapiro.
Otto had come downstairs from the attic and he shot fred with a 22 caliber gun.
Dolly is open to this with one caveat.
For ten years dolly kept otto a secret from her husband.