Ep. 128: The Hinterkaifeck Murders

On the morning of April 4, 1922, a chilling scene met Albert Hofner as he approached a small farmstead on the outskirts of town for a scheduled appointment to repair some farm equipment. The yard and house were eerily still; the only sound came from the livestock contentedly grazing, or the small watchdog that was kept in the barn barking from time to time. The family would not come out to meet him. What he couldn’t know at the time was that just feet away from where he eventually began silently working on the feed machine, were the bodies of six people, gruesomely slain and discarded. What’s more, the killer may have been in the house, quietly waiting for him to finish his work and leave. This week, Hannah tells Katy the story of the Hinterkaifeck murders. The girls go over what happened, the likely and unlikely suspects (spoiler alert: dead husbands and/or victims or said murder do not make good suspects), and possible motives behind one of history’s most senseless crimes. This one is full of content warnings, and lots of nervous laughing-so-we-don’t-cry. So pour your drinks, and get ready for a lot of German names Hannah can’t pronounce, with this week’s Unsolved Mystery. Catch up: 0:00 - 7:35Story: 7:35 - 1:13:03Sources: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crimehttps://www.hinterkaifeck.net/wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseitehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murdersSupport the showFollow us @thetaleswetellpodcast on Facebook and Instagram, or thetaleswetellpodcast.comSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/thetaleswetellpodcast?Click here for merch!