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CASE #S387ZI · 2 entities · 1 connections
The Hinterkaifeck Murders
A family reported hearing footsteps in their attic and finding strange footprints in the snow leading to their farmhouse for days — then all six of them were killed with a pickaxe, and the killer stayed on the property, feeding their animals, for days afterward.
In March 1922, six people were murdered with a mattock at the isolated Hinterkaifeck farmstead in Bavaria, Germany. In the days before the killings, the family had reported strange footprints in the snow and unexplained sounds in the attic. The case remains formally unsolved over a century later, despite a large pool of DNA evidence collected during a 2007 reinvestigation.
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Quick facts
- →Six people were killed: farm owner Andreas Gruber, his wife, their adult daughter, her two young children, and a recently hired maid.
- →In the days before the murders, family members reported finding unexplained footprints in the snow leading toward the house but not away from it, and hearing footsteps in the attic.
- →Investigators determined the killer likely stayed on the property for several days after the murders, since farm animals had been fed and food had been consumed in the house afterward.
- →A 2007 reinvestigation using modern forensic techniques collected DNA evidence from the scene, but no conclusive match to any suspect has ever been made public.
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Hinterkaifeck Murders (event)
1922 unsolved murder of six people at an isolated Bavarian farmstead; the killer remained on the property for days afterward.
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Andreas Gruber (person)
Owner of the Hinterkaifeck farmstead and one of six people killed there in 1922.
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