Episode 146:The Hinterkaifeck Murders

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics On the evening of 31 March 1922, six people living at Hinterkaifeck—a remote farmstead about 70 km north of Munich—were bludgeoned to death with a mattock by an unknown assailant. The victims were 63-year-old Andreas Gruber; his 72-year-old wife Cäzilia; their 35-year-old widowed daughter, Viktoria Gabriel; Viktoria’s two children, seven-year-old Cäzilia and two-year-old Josef; and their 44-year-old maid, Maria Baumgartner. After the killings, the murderer remained on the property for three days, eating the family’s food, feeding the animals, and lighting fires in the hearth. Four of the bodies were found piled in the barn, apparently lured there one by one. In the months before the massacre, family members and a former maid had heard strange noises from the attic; that maid quit, convinced the place was haunted. To this day, Hinterkaifeck remains one of Germany’s most baffling unsolved crimes.