The Hinterkaif*ck Murders: A Chilling Unsolved Mystery (2024)

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With no clear motive to be gleaned from the crime scene, the police began to formulate a list of suspects. Despite repeated arrests, no murderer has ever been found and the files were closed in 1955.

Hinterkaif*ck was a small farmstead near the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen. It was about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Munich. On the evening of 31 March 1922, the six people who lived in the farm were killed. The murders remain unsolved.

One theory is that the killer was a relative of the Gruber family. Andreas Gruber was known to have several disputes with family members over land and property. Another theory is that the killer was a former lover of Viktoria's who had returned to the farmstead and committed the murders in jealousy.

March 31, 1922

Hinterkaif*ck / Start date

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Lorenz Schlittenbauer, 1874 - 1941

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