Swing That Axe
True Weird Stuff
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4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - Swing That Axe
In 1922, Andreas and Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children Cäzilia and Josef, and the family's maid Maria Baumgartner were all found brutally murdered at their farm known as Hinterkaifeck. There were no clues for a motive. No usable DNA evidence. Any leads investigators had over the years led only to dead ends. The killer has never been found. The Hinterkafeck murders are the definition of a cold case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:08.6 | The sound is meaty and wet and sharp all at once. |
| 0:14.3 | Steel is harder than bone, but a human being is a moving target. |
| 0:18.7 | So careful now, with a blade will get stuck. You'll have to wrench |
| 0:22.9 | it free before swinging again. Again, and again, and again. That's it. Yeah, that's how you do it. |
| 0:33.7 | Shh. Now it's over. It's over. The wooden handle slick with blood slides from your hand. The tool hitting the floor with a dull thud. Now the only sound in the room is the roaring in your ears. It takes a special kind of rage, |
| 0:56.0 | a real special kind of crazy, |
| 0:59.3 | to kill another human being with an axe. |
| 1:03.6 | And they got a small beam of light against the air. |
| 1:06.0 | Real, right, real, wild. True. Weird. Weird. Weird. Stuff. |
| 1:32.9 | Ax murder. It's not just for Lizzie Borden. On Thursday, September 21st, |
| 1:44.0 | 2023, a former soldier in Hamburg, Germany, was sentenced to seven years in prison for the murder of his 100-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother. Coroner's found that the elderly victim was struck six-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother. |
| 1:52.4 | Coroners found that the elderly victim was struck 16 times with an axe and died by decapitation when the final blow severed her spinal cord. |
| 1:55.9 | She had tried in vain to defend herself with a cordless vacuum cleaner, But her grandson, 37 years old, was so much stronger, so much faster. |
| 2:06.8 | Identified only as Artur B, the man was said to be the black sheep of the family, |
| 2:12.3 | unable to keep a job, always asking for money. |
| 2:16.2 | Neighbors of the victim, identified as Amelie G, said that they often heard |
| 2:21.2 | the pair arguing loudly, usually over money. Investigators report it that the first blow from the |
| 2:29.6 | axe came from behind. It's remarkable that Amelie, at 100 years old, in a wheelchair, and reportedly |
| 2:37.9 | suffering from dementia, managed any attempt at self-defense. Can you picture her trying to fend off |
| 2:44.8 | the blows with only a cordless vacuum cleaner? What must it have been like for her those last moments on earth? |
| 2:52.8 | A blur of motion? |
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