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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=124589
There are some really messed up people in this world
Kidnapped girl escapes after eight years
An Austrian teenager who escaped eight years' captivity in the hands of a man she had to call "master" simply asked for her favourite toy car when was reunited with her family, her father said on Thursday.
The disappearance of Natascha Kampusch at the age of 10 as she walked to school in 1998 remains one of Austria's most baffling crime mysteries.
Speaking about the moment the family was reunited, Kampusch's father, Ludwig Koch, told the Austrian daily Kurier: "She said: 'Dad, I love you'. And the next question was: 'Is my toy car still there?' It was Natascha's favourite toy, I never gave it away in all those years.
"I always put out of my mind the thought that she was dead."
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He and her half-sister identified the 18-year-old on Wednesday and were joined by her mother on Thursday at the hotel where Kampusch is staying with a policewoman and a psychologist.
She escaped on Wednesday while her kidnapper was distracted, police said. A man police believe to be her captor committed suicide by throwing himself under a train soon afterward.
There are some really messed up people in this world