Hinterkaifeck: The Killer Who Stayed After Six People Died
On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found
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On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found until the farm was demolished in 1923, hidden beneath a false floor.
On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found
On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found
On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found
On 4 April 1922, neighbours broke into an isolated farm near Waidhofen in Bavaria, Germany. They found six dead people: Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her two children Cäzilia and Josef, and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The Bavarian State Archives records severe blows to the head during the night of 31 March, between about 7 and 10 p.m. The weapon was a mattock, but it was not found