It was August 22, 1922, in Los Angeles, and German immigrant Fred Oesterreich was in the middle of a heated argument with his wife, Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich. Without warning, when Fred turns around he’s face to face with a man he knew a decade ago, back in Milwaukee, and he’s holding two pistols. Fred didn’t hear the man come in, and most importantly, why was he here in the first place!?

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Book: “The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told” by Jack Rosewood

https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2013/12/ottos-in-attic-or-hell-dolly.html

https://historic-horrors.com/2025/05/22/the-man-in-the-attic-a-forgotten-crime-of-passion-from-los-angeles-roaring-twenties/

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5t1qis/til_an_la_woman_hid_her_lover_in_the_attic_for/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-married-woman-who-kept-her-lover-in-the-attic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGu6ZdWM2Wg&t=581s