The Oesterreich Murder: Secrets in the Attic

When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and one of the strangest true-crime scandals in American history.

Sources for this episode include:
“‘Bat Man’ Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death” (LA Times)
“Old Killing Recalled, Spook Stuff Seen in Queer Case” (The Independent Record)
Contemporaneous reporting by The Daily Herald, Brainerd Dispatch, and The Duluth News Tribune

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