00:00Someone was living at Hinterkaifeck Farm before the murders.
00:03The family just didn't know it.
00:05In the weeks before March 1922, Andreas Gruber noticed footprints in the snow outside his Bavarian farmhouse.
00:12They came from the forest and led straight to the door.
00:15None led back out.
00:16He heard something moving in the attic at night.
00:18A newspaper appeared that no one had ordered.
00:21He told his neighbors.
00:22Then he did nothing.
00:23On the night of March 31st, all six people on the farm were killed with a mattock, a heavy farm
00:29tool.
00:30One by one, it appears each person was lured to the barn.
00:34The youngest victim was a two-year-old child.
00:37But here is the part that stays with you.
00:39In the days after the murders, neighbors passing by saw smoke still rising from the chimney.
00:45The animals had been fed.
00:46Someone was still there, calm enough to tend to livestock, patient enough to stay.
00:51The killer was never found.
00:53Whoever it was had already waited weeks.
00:56Leaving, it seems, was never part of the plan.
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