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TIL of Dolly Oesterreich, a Milwaukee woman who kept a voluntary sex slave in the attics of her two homes, her husband and 2 lovers none the wiser, for about 10 years. Despite the murder of her husband and her attempts to cover it up she was never convicted and eventually died at the age of 80.

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