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Hinterkaifeck Murders
Six bodies in a remote farmhouse. Evidence someone lived there after the murders. Footprints leading to the farm, but not away. The killer may have stayed for days. Germany's most infamous unsolved case.
March 31, 1922
Hinterkaifeck, Bavaria, Germany
0 The Hinterkaifeck murders are one of Germany’s most baffling unsolved crimes.
The Crime
According to documented accounts:
On March 31, 1922:
- Six people were killed
- At an isolated Bavarian farmstead
- With a mattock (pickaxe-like tool)
- The killer may have remained on the farm
The Mystery
Strange circumstances:
- Footprints led TO the farm, not away
- Someone fed the animals after the murders
- Smoke was seen from the chimney
- Food was eaten