The Villisca and Hinterkaifeck Ax Murders

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this Halloween week episode of Criminology, we're discussing two horrific and infamous ax murder cases. In 1912, in Villisca Iowa, eight people were murdered in the Moore family farmhouse. All six members of the Moore family were killed along with sisters Lena and Ina Stillinger who were staying the night. In 1922, at the Hinterkaifeck farm in Bavaria, Germany, 5 members of the Gruber family and their maid were brutally murdered. These are two very infamous unsolved cases of massacres carried out with some type of ax. And even though the two incidents occurred years apart, and far away from each, there are many similarities between the two cases. Some have theorized that they were both carried out by the same person or persons. The other thing that ties these two cases together is that they both involve a little bit of the supernatural. You can help support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.6	Hello everyone and welcome, Depth. So 84 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
1:14.7	And this is Morph. Well, Morph, we decided to change up the music a little bit.
1:20.9	Little creepy, a little haunting. That's a classic by Bach called Takata and Fugue in D minor.
1:30.1	I'm probably butchering that I'm sure. And we chose that creepy music to kick off this episode
1:36.4	because this is our Halloween week episode. And naturally, the cases that we're going to talk
1:43.7	about today, they're bound to give you a little bit of chills. You know, we did that on purpose to
1:50.4	kind of tie in with Halloween. But I think you've got to have that creepy music to really set the
1:55.3	tone because we've got a couple of ery and creepy cases to cover. Well, you know, you look at TV
2:01.1	shows, you look at movies. How big of an effect is music. I think when you're talking about scary
2:08.3	movies, it's huge. I think it adds an element of creepiness that if you were just watching the
2:16.0	movie without the music, you would think, okay, I'm not scared at all. But that music, man,
2:21.5	it kind of gets you sometimes. Yeah, and I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of Halloween.
2:26.3	So I love it. I get to this week and I'm just excited. Oh, I do too. You know, I rewatch all the
2:33.4	the old classic horror movies and I'm kind of lucky. My two daughters are really into horror movies.
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