A Century-Old Cold Case | The Hinterkaifeck Massacre

The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of March 31, 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber (age 63) and Cäzilia Gruber (age 72), their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (age 35), Viktoria's children, Cäzilia (age 7) and Josef (age 2), and the maid, Maria Baumgartner (age 44). They were all found struck dead. The perpetrator (or perpetrators) lived with the six corpses of their victims for three days. The murders are considered one of the most gruesome and puzzling unsolved crimes in German history.

Four of the dead bodies were stacked up in the barn, the victims having been lured into there one by one. Prior to the incident, the family and their previous maid reported hearing strange sounds coming from the attic, which led that maid to quit. The case remains unsolved to this day.

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