Dolly And Otto The Attic Lover

With molly burnett kevin fonteyne david fierro david alexander.

Dolly and otto the attic lover. 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. Always one step ahead dolly sends otto to la in advance. For five years dolly and otto carried on this odd relationship with otto living in the cramped attic. So when fred informed dolly in 1918 that he thought they should sell the house and move to los angeles things could have gotten complicated.

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. After the move dolly s husband starts drinking even more. By the time she and her husband move into their new home he s already kicking it in the 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.

The new house must have an attic. When the oesterreichs made the decision to leave their milwaukee home and move to los angeles dolly had to move her lover with them. Dolly is open to this with one caveat. For ten years dolly kept otto a secret from her husband.

Instead dolly found a house overlooking sunset boulevard with an attic and sent otto there early. 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. After the murder otto actually fled california and dolly found new lovers including lawyer harold shapiro.

Moneybags is like uh you re weird but ok. In 1923 the police found out about frank s watch and klumb following a volatile breakup with dolly confessed to disposing of the guns. 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 had come downstairs from the attic and he shot fred with a 22 caliber gun.

Dolly agreed to the move on the condition that the new house have an attic. 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. 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. She sent sanhuber ahead and by the time the oesterreichs arrived the now 22 year old was already settled in his new home.

However still obsessed with her otto returned to dolly and to a hidden existence.