Vienna

On 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch disappeared while walking to school in Austria. She would spend the next 3,096 days imprisoned in a secret cellar before escaping in August 2006, becoming one of Europe's most documented kidnapping survivors.

On 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch vanished on her way to school in Vienna, Austria. She had been abducted by Wolfgang Přiklopil and imprisoned in a secret basement cell beneath his house. Eight years later, she escaped—and her captor took his own life the same day.