Entire family murdered by killer who had hidden in loft for months

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One of the most bone-chilling unsolved mysteries in history involves a farmer and his family who were brutally murdered within their own barn, with eerie evidence suggesting that the killer may have been lurking in the loft above their home for weeks or even months prior to the attack. ‌

The Hinterkaifeck Murders are etched in history as one of the most terrifying cases ever, and despite occurring over a century ago, it continues to be probed by the true crime community. ‌

On a freezing Friday night in March 1922, Andreas Gruber, 63, his wife Cäzilia, 72, their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel, 35, Viktoria's children Cäzilia, seven, and Josef, two, and their maid, Maria Baumgartnerwere, 44, were slain at their farmstead in the quaint Bavarian village of K