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The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Germany’s Oldest Unsolved Massacre
The chilling tale of a murderer who carried on living in the family home of the dead
Intro
Widowed Viktoria Gabriel (35) lived with her two young children Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2), her parents Andreas (63) and Cäzilia Gruber (72), and their maid Maria Baumgartner (44) in Germany.
They kept very much to themselves in a lonely Bavarian homestead, on the outskirts of town near the woods. Little did they know the farmhouse would be demolished as neighbours could not bear the ghoulish reminder of what happened there.
The neighbours had become concerned when young Cäzilia missed school for several days, the entire family missed Church, and their post pilled up at the post office uncollected.
A search party discovered the bodies of the maid and the two-year-old boy slaughtered in their beds. The rest of the family’s bodies were found in the barn. They were stacked up one on top of another in the barn, covered with hay.
