She Can't Stop Sleeping With Men // The Dolly Oesterreich Murder Story
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So why did this woman move a teenager into her attic to have an affair with? What is wrong with people? Now the woman's name is Dolly, and Dolly's about 33 when this story starts, and she's living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dolly has a problem.
She's not happy in her marriage. Her husband works all day, so he's gone all the time, plus he's kind of a drunk, and she apparently isn't happy with his, you know, performance in bed.
So, how does she deal with all this?
How did Dolly Oesterreich first meet 17-year-old Otto Sanhuber and start their affair?
Well, she starts smashing with other men. Like, she'll bring them around during the day when her husband's at work, and she'll hook up with them. But one day in 1913, she meets what she feels like is the perfect partner. So she's at home sewing when suddenly her sewing machine breaks down. And so a repairman shows up to fix it. Now that repairman is this guy, Otto. And Otto, he's only 17, so I guess he's more of a repair boy? Anyway, so Otto shows up to Dolly's house and she answers the door wearing only a silk robe and stockings. Whistling Because, you know, she's trying to seduce him. And the moment Otto sees her, he thinks she is the cat's meow, and Dolly thinks Otto is the bee's knees. And I don't know if he repaired her sewing machine or not, but eventually, they start hooking up.
And it doesn't stop there. She keeps inviting him back over and over and over again, and her husband has no idea that this is happening. Now, her husband's name is actually Fred. And eventually, neighborhood gossip gets back to Fred, and someone tells him, say, I think your wife is doing the hoochie-coochie with the repair boy. And so Fred gets super pissed off, and he confronts Dolly. And Dolly says, it was a mistake, and she promises to break things off with Otto. But she doesn't break it off with Otto. She has no intention of breaking things off with him. And at the same time, she doesn't want to leave Fred. So instead, she convinces Otto to secretly move into the attic of their house and live there.
That way, they can keep smashing on the DL and Fred will never find out. So he quits his job and he moves into her attic and he starts living there. And every morning after Fred leaves for work, he'll come out and he and Dolly will spend the whole day together. Then in the evening, just before Fred gets home, he'll go back into the attic and he'll just stay there reading books and writing whole ass novels and stuff like that. And believe it or not, this arrangement actually works. Now, occasionally, Fred, when he's at home, will hear a noise or something coming from the attic. And he'll also notice that, like, his food keeps disappearing. And every single time, Dolly is there to give him some bullshit excuse.
Like, she tells him that he's probably just imagining things because he drinks too much and he works too hard. And I guess Fred believes her. And five years pass. And it's now 1918. And this affair is still going on. And Otto is still living in the attic. And at this point, Fred and Dolly decide to move to Los Angeles. But Dolly, she isn't about to leave Otto behind. So she insists to Fred that their new house needs to have an attic. And once Fred buys a new house with an attic, Dolly secretly sends Otto ahead so that he can move into that attic before she and Fred get there. And so then Dolly and Fred move into the new house, and the whole affair continues. And about four more years pass, and so it's now 1922.
And this is where things start to go very wrong. one night Fred and Dolly are at home and they get into a huge argument and this argument gets heated and they start yelling at each other and Otto he's up in the attic and he can hear everything going on downstairs and he realizes Fred is about to beat Dolly up so he grabs two pistols and he rushes downstairs and boom he appears out of nowhere and he points one of them at Fred And Fred, he's not about to back down from this stranger in his house. He lunges at Otto, and the two of them struggle. And then suddenly, blam, blam, blam, Otto shoots Fred multiple times. And unfortunately, Fred doesn't survive.
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