Dolly And Otto The Attic Lover

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

Dolly and otto the attic lover.

The new house must have an attic. Otto weir walter klein which culminated in the shooting death of her husband. 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. When the oesterreichs made the decision to leave their milwaukee home and move to los angeles dolly had to move her lover with them.

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. With molly burnett kevin fonteyne david fierro david alexander. Walburga dolly oesterreich née korschel. Moneybags is like uh you re weird but ok.

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. Always one step ahead dolly sends otto to la in advance. Instead dolly found a house overlooking sunset boulevard with an attic and sent otto there early. For ten years dolly kept otto a secret from her husband.

After the murder otto actually fled california and dolly found new lovers including lawyer harold shapiro. In 1923 the police found out about frank s watch and klumb following a volatile breakup with dolly confessed to disposing of the guns. She sent sanhuber ahead and by the time the oesterreichs arrived the now 22 year old was already settled in his new home. Dolly is open to this with one caveat.

For five years dolly and otto carried on this odd relationship with otto living in the cramped attic. 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 move dolly s husband starts drinking even more. Dolly agreed to the move on the condition that the new house have an attic.

Directed by melora walters. Otto had come downstairs from the attic and he shot fred with a 22 caliber gun. 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. 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.

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.