Today is Tuesday, March 31st, 2020.

On this day in 1922, six people were murdered at a farmstead in southern Germany.

It was a horrific event that would become one of the most infamous crimes in German history.

The Hinter Kuyfeck Murders.

Welcome to today in true crime, a parcast original. Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised. Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today's crime is especially chilling

due to the fact that an entire family,

including young children, lost their lives.

Let's go back to the night of March 31st, 1922, around 7 PM.

Maria tucked a sheet into the rickety frame of her new bed.

It was on the highest level of the farmhouse, cold, thin walls. She looked up at the sound of footsteps coming from the

attic. This sent a chill down her spine. The previous maid had quit six months earlier, claiming that the house was haunted.

It was for this very reason, because she could hear noises in the attic.

But Andreas Gruber, the patriarch of the Farmstead, had told Maria not to worry.

It was perfectly safe at Hinter Kifeck.

Well, safe from ghosts anyway.

Maria knew that Andreas had been convicted of incest just seven years earlier in 1915,

and he had been accused again just three years ago in 1919.

It was common knowledge that he raped his daughter, Victoria

and that he abused his wife, Setselia.

Some believed that Victoria's children,

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