SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In 1922, a little farm in the woods of Bavaria became the site of what would become Germany’s most famous unsolved murder, when six people were brutally killed with a pick axe. What led up to it and followed is nothing short of bizarre.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Hi, everybody, and welcome to our new playlist for the fall,
0:09.4	featuring some of our best episodes on True Crime.
0:12.8	We've got so many that it was hard to choose,
0:14.9	and we left a number of the all-time grates out,
0:17.5	because we've released them as Selects.
0:19.5	But if this floats your boat, then check out
0:22.1	some of our other true crime episodes that didn't make the list, like the Yuba County 5,
0:27.2	the body on Somerton Beach, the missing solder children, and 10 dumb criminals, among many others.
0:33.9	We're starting the playlist off with our episode on a grisly unsolved mystery from 1920 in Bavaria, where a family was found murdered on their farm.
0:43.3	It has all sorts of weird twists and turns, and it's a genuinely mysterious unsolved case.
0:49.5	Okay, here we go.
0:54.9	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com.
1:04.7	Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry.
1:13.9	Yep.
1:14.9	And this is stuff you should know.
1:16.9	Yeah, I would say this is a bonus Halloween episode in a way.
1:22.2	You can all look forward to our regular ad-free Halloween show on Halloween.
1:28.8	The real bonus episode.
1:30.2	Yeah, exactly, where we do our traditional reading.
1:32.9	It's all gussied up by Jerry.
1:34.9	But you were like, hey, since this is Halloween, almost.
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