Hinterkaifeck: The Killer Who Stayed for Three Days | Someone Knows

Someone Knows: True Crime, Unsolved Cases & the Search for Truth · Oct 3, 2026 · 9m · transcript

In this episode of Someone Knows, host Kristen Cameron dissects the Hinterkaifeck murders, one of Germany’s most chilling and unsolved true crime cases. Set in the isolated Bavarian farmstead of Hinterkaifeck in March 1922, the story begins not with the deaths, but with weeks of eerie premonitions: strange footprints in the snow leading to a broken lock but never leaving, a missing newspaper, and unexplained noises from the attic. This narrative explores the psychological horror of a family realizing they are being watched by an intruder who has already infiltrated their home, setting the…