Teen Wants To Own Site Of Her Captivity

An Austrian teenager who was held captive for 8½ years said she wants ownership of the house she was kept in so that it doesn't become a tourist attraction and her captor's mother can live there, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

In an interview with the newspaper Kurier, Natascha Kampusch said she wanted the house so that "people don't turn (it) into an odd thing, a type of pilgrimage site where ashtrays and coffee mugs are sold."

Kampusch said she would let her captor's mother live in the house, located in the semi-rural Vienna suburb of Strasshof.

Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, snatched Kampusch — then 10 — off a Vienna street while she was on her way to school. She was largely confined her to an underground, windowless cell in his home. He killed himself by jumping in front of a commuter train within hours of her escape on Aug. 23.

Kampusch said she had not met Priklopil's mother but that she planned to "when the time is right."

Kampusch fled to freedom when Priklopil was distracted by a cell phone call while she was vacuuming his car.