66: The Man in the Attic & an Unsolved Mystery

Published: April 24, 2019, 6:01 a.m.

Walburga \u201cDolly\u201d Oesterreich was unhappy in her marriage. She and her husband, Fred, were financially successful, but Dolly was bored. One day, Dolly told Fred that her sewing machine was broken. She asked him to send one of his repairmen to fix it. Fred sent 17-year-old

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Otto Sanhuber. When Dolly answered the door, she was wearing stockings, a silk robe, and not much else. It was the start of a lengthy affair. But when her neighbors asked questions, Dolly was in a pickle. How could she keep cheating on her husband without anyone finding out?

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Then Brandi tells us about Sharon Kinne, whose life is shrouded in suspicion and mystery. Sharon was just 16 when she met 22-year-old James Kinne. The couple got married quickly, but their happiness didn\u2019t last. On March 19, 1960, James was shot dead in their Independence, Missouri, home. Who could have done it? Sharon had the answer. It was the couple\u2019s toddler.

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\u201cSanhuber says he confessed to save widow,\u201d Associated Press
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\u201cAttic batman and jury visit murder scene,\u201d Universal Services
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\u201cMystery of the man in the closet,\u201d by Ruth Reynolds, the Honolulu Advertiser
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\u201cLived like a bat in an attic,\u201d by A.L. Wooldridge, the Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine
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\u201cBedroom in the attic,\u201d by Spencer Hardy, King Features Syndicate
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\u201c\u2018Bat Man\u2019 case: a lurid tale of love and death,\u201d by Cecilia Rasmussen, Los Angeles Times
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\u201cThe married woman who kept her lover in the attic,\u201d By Addison Nugent, Atlas Obscura
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\u201cLover in \xa0the attic,\u201d by Joseph McNamara, Daily News

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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\u201cMaybe I\u2019ll Meet You on The Run\u201d by Mark Gribben, The Malefactor\u2019s Register
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\u201cSharon Kinne\u201d by J.J. Maloney, crimemagazine.com
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\u201cSharon Kinne\u201d wikipedia.org

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