investigators police officers from all over the world solve a large number of criminal cases every year, but some escape and get caught up without finding a culprit for the facts In Mysterious we talk about the Mystery of Hanging Rock: a school trip that ended with unsolved disappearances and this time we want to approach another famous case: The unsolved murders of Hinterkaifeck .Join us to discover that It happened on that lonely farm.
The murders of Hinterkaifeck
At dusk of the day March 31, 1922 , Six members of a peasant family He had his farm 70 km north of Munich, they were killed in an extremely violent way.When the neighbors were questioned, they explained that the father, Andreas Gruber , had explained days before the snow had found a as strange footprints that left the forest to the house, but that did not return and that did not correspond to anyone in the family.He had also talked about footsteps in the attic , a newspaper that nobody had bought and the loss of a set of keys .They also mentioned that a maid had said goodbye six months ago because she thought the farm was haunted.
When five days ago that nobody saw in the small village of Kaifeck any of the family members, or the new maid, 3 neighbors went to the farm to see if everything was going well.to arrive they found the small Josef, of two years, dead in his cradle and the corpse of the maid in the bed, in his room.In the barn they found the bodies of the father, Andreas, the mother, Cazilia, his widowed daughter Vikt Oria Gabriel and her oldest daughter, 7, also called Cazilia.
Everyone had been beaten to death or beating and Viktoria also showed signs of strangulation.Death came on the spot., except for little Cazilia, where signs were found that it had taken hours to die.All the bodies had been covered in one way or another : the child with a skirt from his mother, the raised with a sheet and those of the barn with straw.
It took them 5 days to find them because it coincided a weekend in between and the neighbors had seen smoke coming out of the chimney. Someone was on the farm living those days; ate there, fed the animals and ordered the cows.Another neighbor who came to fix the family tractor, which was at outside the farm, I don't see anything weird those days.
What had happened? Who had killed the family? All types of hypothesis were shuffled, from a robbery, a ritual murder or a crime of passion .The first one was ruled out since a lot of money was found on the farm and the daughter's boyfriend showed that he could not having been, although the investigation reopened the case of incest between Andreas and his daughter Viktoria, for which they had been condemned long before.
The methods of investigation at that time were very primitive and the police did not He was able to find the culprit.A group of investigators a few years ago reopened the case, although he could not close it because many of the evidence was lost during the World War and the witnesses had died., believe they have found the culprit , although they did not publish the name to protect the descendants.
What do you think Could it happen at the Hinterkaifeck farm? If you were interested in this post, you may want to know other unsolved mysteries:
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Image: Andreas Biegleder, Andreas Keller, Christian Greller
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