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The Mysterious Story of the Hinterkaifeck Murders
This German family was brutally murdered in their own house
On the evening of the 31st of March in 1922, a family consisting of six people in Bavaria, Germany was brutally murdered on their own property. They assume that a perpetrator snug into their house and hid for a couple of days before murdering the family. This murder tragedy is considered the cruelest murder case in German history.
This story is about the Hinterkaifeck Murders.
Andreas Gruber lived on this farm with his wife Cäzilia Gruber and their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, who had two children: Cäzilia and Josef. Together with the maid, Maria Baumgartner, they lived there.
The Months Before The Murders
The Hinterkaifeck family lived on a farm in the German Waidhofen that was built in 1863.
Right before these murders happened, a lot of strange things happened on this nice family farm. The household maid had resigned six months previous to the assault. Her reason for leaving was generally assumed to be that she had heard odd noises in the attic and…
