The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Killed by Someone Already Inside — The Sinister Past

THE SINISTER PAST · Sep 30, 2026 · 12m

Bavaria, March 1922. A farmer notices footprints in the snow leading to his isolated farmstead — but none leading away. Days later, all six members of the household are found dead, killed one by one with a mattock. The livestock had been fed. Someone stayed in the house for days after the murders.

In this episode, we trace the strange warnings that preceded the Hinterkaifeck murders, the single bloody night that ended six lives, and the century of failed investigations — including a 2007 police academy cold case review — that have left Germany's most haunting unsolved crime exactly that…