Six Murders, No Answers: What Happened at Hinterkaifeck?
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In 1922, the Gruber family’s remote Bavarian farm became the scene of one of the most unsettling murder cases in history. Six people—including two children—were brutally killed, but the real horror? Their murderer didn’t leave. For days, they lived in the house, ate the food, and even tended the animals.Long before the bodies were found, there were warnings: strange footsteps in the attic, an unfamiliar newspaper appearing out of nowhere, and a maid so terrified she quit and never came back. Decades later, the Hinterkaifeck murders remain unsolved, filled with disturbing details, baffling theories, and one undeniable fact—whoever did it disappeared without a trace.In this episode, we dig into the eerie events leading up to the crime, the suspects that never stuck, and the clues that still keep investigators—and true crime fans—obsessed.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1922, a small farm in Bavaria became the sight of something straight out of a horror story. |
| 0:07.0 | Six people gone, not just killed, but wiped out in a way that made even seasoned investigators uneasy. |
| 0:14.5 | And the worst part, whoever did it, didn't leave right away. They stuck around, ate the food, |
| 0:20.6 | took care of the animals, made themselves |
| 0:22.9 | comfortable. Before any of that, though, there were signs, unexplained noises in the attic, |
| 0:28.9 | footprints in the snow leading to the house, but not away from the house. And a maid who was so |
| 0:34.5 | freaked out that she quit on the spot and never looked back when she left. |
| 0:38.3 | This is the story of the Hinter-Kafect murders, a case that left behind a crime scene, a lot of theories, and a killer who vanished into thin air. |
| 0:46.3 | But before we dive in, if you like your true crime brief and bingeable, you're in the right place. |
| 0:51.3 | Hit follow now for at least two new episodes every week. This is 10-minute |
| 0:56.1 | murder. Let's get into it. In 1922, deep in the Bavarian countryside, nestled among rolling fields and medieval towns, was |
| 1:29.0 | Hinter-Kafek, a small farming community where everyone knew everyone. |
| 1:34.3 | And on one of its remote farms lived the Gruber family. |
| 1:37.9 | Andreas Gruber, the stern and notoriously difficult patriarch, ran the household alongside |
| 1:43.9 | his wife, Cecilia. |
| 1:45.4 | Their widowed daughter, Victoria Gabriel, lived with them, raising her two children, |
| 1:50.1 | seven-year-old Cecilia Gabriel, named after her grandmother, and two-year-old Joseph. |
| 1:55.2 | The family managed the farm with occasional help from seasonal workers, |
| 1:59.1 | but their only permanent employee was their live-in-maid. |
| 2:02.7 | Now, I'm about to try to pronounce this maid's name, and just know that I'm not going |
| 2:07.5 | to say it right, but I'm going to make an attempt. |
| 2:10.1 | Kresnan's Rieger. |
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