Natascha Kampusch was held captive for 8 years because the abductor had planned to marry a virgin woman. Wolfgang Priklopil kidnapped then 10-year-old Natascha in 1988; Priklopil killed himself in 2006 on the day that Kampusch managed to escape. The weekly ‘News’ made public the testimony by the the abductor’s best friend, Ernst H.