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Speaker 1: to Unexplained, Season five, episode nine, Tenebrous, Part two. The
Speaker 1: cars turned off the main road and headed deeper into
Speaker 1: the fields, toward the small, solitary light in the distance.
Speaker 1: Behind it, a vast wall of trees, silhouetted under a
Speaker 1: pale half moon, stood still and black, growing ever taller
Speaker 1: the closer they got. And on they continued toward the
Speaker 1: light that seemed to be luring them in like a silent,
Speaker 1: haunting beacon, toward an unfathomable horror. Inside the cars, a
Speaker 1: team of investigators from Eunich, led by fifty five year
Speaker 1: old George Rheinruber, as well as Mayor Gregor of Vangen,
Speaker 1: the next village east of Gruben, prepared themselves for the worst.
Speaker 1: The local district police, having been first to arrive on
Speaker 1: the scene at hinter Kaifek, had quickly realized they were
Speaker 1: woefully out of their depth. They had called in the
Speaker 1: Munich Force in a desperate plea for help. Rheinruber's team
Speaker 1: hadn't arrived in the area until after one am, prompting
Speaker 1: them to spend the night at the mayor's residence in
Speaker 1: Vangen before making their way to the farm first thing
Speaker 1: in the morning. It had just gone six am when
Speaker 1: the cars finally pulled into the courtyard on Wednesday, April fifth.
Speaker 1: As the seven officers, two police dogs, and the mayor
Speaker 1: stepped out into the chilly morning air, Lourene Schlittenbauer appeared
Speaker 1: at the front door of the main house, his footsteps
Speaker 1: echoing about the courtyard as he approached. Lorenz quickly introduced
Speaker 1: himself as one of the men who had first found
Speaker 1: the bodies, and that he'd been there all night guarding
Speaker 1: the scene for them. Ryan Gruber was struck immediately by
Speaker 1: the man's odd, nervous energy, a natural consequence perhaps of
Speaker 1: the fact he hadn't slept since the night before, But
Speaker 1: as to why he'd taken it on himself to stay
Speaker 1: at the property, he was less sure. As Lorenz continued
Speaker 1: to babble about everything he knew of the family and
Speaker 1: how he discovered the bodies, Ryan Gruber eventually interrupted. Perhaps
Speaker 1: he said, we should take a look for ourselves, and so,
Speaker 1: as the first light of dawn began to break, Lorenz
Speaker 1: turned and led the investigator and his team into the barn.
Speaker 1: The bodies of Andreas and the young Cecilia had been
Speaker 1: placed against the far wall, a small pool of blood
Speaker 1: on the hay, in the spot where they'd first been found.
Speaker 1: The other two bodies, those of Victoria and the elder Cecilia,
Speaker 1: had been pulled through a doorway into a stable corridor
Speaker 1: linking the barn to the main house. When asked why
Speaker 1: the bodies had been moved, Lorenz explained that he was
Speaker 1: looking for his son, who at first he thought might
Speaker 1: be there too. Rhine Gruber made a quick inspection of
Speaker 1: their injuries, then turned his attention to the door between
Speaker 1: the two areas. It was covered in blood splatter. There
Speaker 1: was something else, said Lawrence, leading the inspector through to
Speaker 1: the stable corridor. That he said, pointing to a pickaxe
Speaker 1: leaning up against a feeding trough in the corner. He'd
Speaker 1: found it the day before, he said. The inspector took
Speaker 1: a closer look, noticing a few dark spots on the handle,
Speaker 1: but little else. Perhaps the cattle had licked it clean,
Speaker 1: suggested Lorenz, Perhaps, said rhine Gruber in reply. Lorenz then
Speaker 1: led the team into the kitchen. While two of the
Speaker 1: officers made their way into the attic, rhine Gruber took
Speaker 1: note of the now moldy food that had been left
Speaker 1: out in a pan and blood spots on the stone
Speaker 1: floor as they continued through, Arriving at the doorway to
Speaker 1: maria the maid's room. Running his hand over the door frame,
Speaker 1: the inspector spotted a few splatters and some more on
Speaker 1: the ground, but no bloody hand or footprints. Looking through,
Speaker 1: he saw Maria's body partially obscured by a mattress, lying
Speaker 1: in a fetal position. Evidently she had been attacked while
Speaker 1: preparing for bed, perhaps crouching down for cover in a
Speaker 1: vain attempt to protect herself. Next was Victoria's room. The
Speaker 1: place appeared to have been ransacked, with cupboards flung open
Speaker 1: and the bed unmade. A watch and an empty purse
Speaker 1: had been left out on top of it, prompting rhine
Speaker 1: Gruber to wonder if theft had been the motive. Lorens
Speaker 1: informed him that the family was said to have kept
Speaker 1: around a hundred thousand marks at the property, close to
Speaker 1: four thousand US dollars in today's money. The inspector approached
Speaker 1: the baby stroller at the end of the bed and
Speaker 1: pulled back the dress that was draped over it to
Speaker 1: reveal the blood soaked baby Joseph underneath, his face, unrecognizable
Speaker 1: from the blows. The hood of the pram had also
Speaker 1: been torn apart, suggesting it had been closed when the
Speaker 1: killer struck. Perhaps even they had found the thought of
Speaker 1: killing a baby too much and couldn't bear to have
Speaker 1: to see what they were doing. That all the bodies
Speaker 1: had been covered over without any real attempt to hide
Speaker 1: them was an indication, perhaps of the killer's sense of shame,
Speaker 1: a shame likely only felt by someone who knew the victims.
Speaker 1: Rhyme Gruber stared up at the three religious icons hanging
Speaker 1: on the wall above the bed and the three crucifixes
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Speaker 1: men were standing to the side in a section of
Speaker 1: the attic above the stable corridor, pointing at something on
Speaker 1: the hay covered floor. As Rhine Grouper drew near, he
Speaker 1: caught the unmistakable noxious whiff of it. It was human excrement.
Speaker 1: There were also bacon ryan scattered about two and two
Speaker 1: indentations in the hay suggesting the possibility of two perpetrators.
Speaker 1: Then one of the officers noticed a kink of light
Speaker 1: coming through the roof. Moving toward it, he found that
Speaker 1: a number of tiles there had been loosened. A similar
Speaker 1: set of loose tiles were found in another section of
Speaker 1: the attic over the main barn. Anyone looking out of
Speaker 1: the gaps in the roof would have had a clear
Speaker 1: view of the courtyard and the entrance to the main
Speaker 1: house had they been watching the family. Rhyan group of thought.
Speaker 1: The family's bread supply, usually well stocked, was empty, while
Speaker 1: some smoked meat appeared to have been taken after their
Speaker 1: deaths in their absence. The livestock had also been watered
Speaker 1: and fed, all in all, suggesting that whoever had done
Speaker 1: this had not been gone long After. A thorough search
Speaker 1: of the house, investigators uncovered around fifteen thousand marks in
Speaker 1: various denominations of cash and gold, but no sign of
Speaker 1: the hundred thousand marks that Lorenz claimed was kept at
Speaker 1: the property. With the bodies having been moved, it was
Speaker 1: difficult to ascertain who had been murdered first, but aside
Speaker 1: from baby Joseph and Maria, it seemed reasonable to assume
Speaker 1: the victims had been lured into the barn one by
Speaker 1: one and then bludgeoned violently to death. Since seven year
Speaker 1: old Cecilia hadn't been seen at school on Saturday, the
Speaker 1: murders were considered to have taken place on the night
Speaker 1: of Friday, March thirty first, only hours after Maria Baumgartner
Speaker 1: had arrived at the farm to begin her new job.
Speaker 1: Just then, rhine Gruber heard a commotion outside and stepped
Speaker 1: into the courtyard to find a small crowd of onlookers
Speaker 1: had gathered at the edge of the property, desperate to
Speaker 1: see the murder scene for themselves. It was early in
Speaker 1: the afternoon when doctor Johann al Mullah, the district court doctor,
Speaker 1: arrived from the nearby town of Neuburg ad Donnau to
Speaker 1: carry out the autopsies. One by one, the bodies were
Speaker 1: taken from out of the farmhouse and laid side by
Speaker 1: side in the middle of the courtyard as the ever
Speaker 1: growing crowd of onlookers jostled for the best view. A
Speaker 1: door was placed over two wooden tressels as a makeshift table,
Speaker 1: and then, with the help of two porters and clerk assistant,
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Heinrich Nay, the first of the
Speaker 1: bodies was lifted on to it. The bodies were pale
Speaker 1: and gray, the skin like rubber, with liver mortis and
Speaker 1: dark patches underneath where the blood had pulled. For Andreas,
Speaker 1: death had come quickly, having been bludgeoned to death with
Speaker 1: a blunt object that pulverized the right side of his face.
Speaker 1: Maria Baumguard and the young Joseph were similarly killed with
Speaker 1: heavy blows to the head and face. Victoria and her
Speaker 1: mother's injuries, however, were subtly different, suggesting they'd endured something
Speaker 1: even worse. Both displayed bruising around the neck, as if
Speaker 1: they'd been strangled before being beaten. Both their skulls had
Speaker 1: been smashed, but Victoria also had nine peculiar star shaped
Speaker 1: puncture wounds in hers. The crowd gasped as seven year
Speaker 1: old Cecilia's body was lifted from the ground and placed
Speaker 1: on the table. The lower jaw was shattered and her
Speaker 1: head smashed, but there was also a huge gaping wound
Speaker 1: on her neck, suggesting the weapon had not only been
Speaker 1: blunt put sharp to Doctor al Mullah noticed something scrunched
Speaker 1: up in her right hand, prying the fingers open, he
Speaker 1: found a clump of Cecilia's hair inside. The doctor concluded
Speaker 1: that she'd likely survived for some time after the attack
Speaker 1: and had clawed it out of her own head in
Speaker 1: the agony and confusion. Having finished his investigations, doctor al
Speaker 1: Mullah reached for his surgical sore and began methodically to
Speaker 1: remove Cecilia's head from the body, a thick bluish blood
Speaker 1: oozing onto the table as he went. The process was
Speaker 1: repeated for each of the bodies, with the heads being
Speaker 1: backed up and sent to the Pathology Institute at the
Speaker 1: University of Munich for further investigation. With the autopsies complete,
Speaker 1: Heinrich and the porters gathered each headless body onto a
Speaker 1: stretcher and returned them to the barn. Having brought the
Speaker 1: rest of the bodies in, the young Cecilia's was the
Speaker 1: last to be returned. Placing the headless corpse onto the stretcher,
Speaker 1: the porters each grabbed an end and headed toward the
Speaker 1: barn as Heinrich Nay followed close behind. As the porters
Speaker 1: stepped inside, one of them cried out in horror and
Speaker 1: dropped the stretcher, knocking the body to the floor. Heinrich
Speaker 1: ran inside and found them pointing toward a thick line
Speaker 1: of rope hanging down from a beam at the base
Speaker 1: of the hayloft above. Heinrich stared up in utter amusement,
Speaker 1: then looked to the others in stunned silence. The rope
Speaker 1: had not been there when they last came into the barn.
Speaker 1: Taking a breath, Heinrich pulled a ladder from the side
Speaker 1: and carefully made his way up to the loft. Pulling
Speaker 1: at the knot, he could feel just how tight it was,
Speaker 1: as if a significant weight had only just been applied
Speaker 1: to it. And there, right next to it in the
Speaker 1: dust on the beam was a set of freshly made handprints.
Speaker 1: With police rushing into him investigate, the search dogs sniffed
Speaker 1: eagerly at the rope for a cent, and though an
Speaker 1: effort was made to track it, it was quickly lost
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Speaker 1: With the investigation of the crime scene finished, lead investigator
Speaker 1: Rheine Gruber turned his attention to Lauren Schlittenbauer and the
Speaker 1: two other men Michael Pearl and Jacob Siegel, who'd first
Speaker 1: discovered the bodies. After explaining again why he'd moved the
Speaker 1: bodies and decided to stay overnight at the property, Lorenz
Speaker 1: was keen to justify his decision, insisting that his being
Speaker 1: there had helped to keep anyone else from entering the
Speaker 1: house until rhine Gruber and his team arrived. This, however,
Speaker 1: was a lie, as reported by many others. As soon
Speaker 1: as word had got out, a number of villagers had
Speaker 1: descended on the property, keen to see the murder scene.
Speaker 1: Lorenz had not only welcomed them, but shown them around
Speaker 1: the property himself. One man had even paused in the
Speaker 1: kitchen to fix himself a snack. But there were other
Speaker 1: concerning things too. It was strange, thought Michael Pearl, when
Speaker 1: giving his statement later how Lawrence had managed to unlock
Speaker 1: the front door and let them into the property in
Speaker 1: the first place. Lawrence himself had told him that Andreas
Speaker 1: had complained about one of his house keys going missing.
Speaker 1: Lorenz maintained that he'd merely found it sticking out of
Speaker 1: the lock when he went to open the door for
Speaker 1: Jacob Siegel, it was the strangeness of Lorenz's calm demeanor
Speaker 1: and eagerness to move the bodies that most stuck out
Speaker 1: to him. Despite his and Michael's protestations that they should
Speaker 1: leave the scene untouched, Lorenz gnawed them immediately after finding
Speaker 1: the bodies. As Siegel explained, he'd set about fetching milk
Speaker 1: from the cellar to feed the pigs and rearranging other
Speaker 1: parts of the house. At one point, he'd even suggested
Speaker 1: that Jacob go into the hay loft and throw down
Speaker 1: some hay for the cattle to eat, but Jacob refused,
Speaker 1: and he and Michael left the property soon after, wanting
Speaker 1: nothing more to do with it. Michael was so suspicious
Speaker 1: of Lawrence's behavior, according to Jacob, that he accused him
Speaker 1: then and there of being the murderer, although in his
Speaker 1: own statement Michael neglected to a portion any blame. It
Speaker 1: was certainly well known amongst the community what Lawrence's feelings
Speaker 1: were toward Victoria. As it turned out, he'd actually gone
Speaker 1: as far as to ask for her hand in marriage,
Speaker 1: only to be denied it by her father Andreas. Investigator
Speaker 1: Rhine Gruber also spoke to Franciska Maria Baumgartner's sister and
Speaker 1: Bernard Gruber, Andreas's brother, but nothing valuable was ascertained. In
Speaker 1: the end, Rheine Gruber concluded that although Lorenz's behavior was bizarre,
Speaker 1: it wasn't in itself evidence that the man was guilty
Speaker 1: of the crime. On the morning of Saturday, April eighth,
Speaker 1: a crowd of up to three thousand people watched as
Speaker 1: six coffins were transported to the cemetery of Wadehoffen parish church,
Speaker 1: where only seven years previously Victoria and Carl had been married.
Speaker 1: The five bodies of the Gruber and Gabriel family and
Speaker 1: that of their maid, Maria Baumgartner, the adults on the
Speaker 1: outside and the two children in the middle, were lowered
Speaker 1: down into a mass grave and buried there together with
Speaker 1: no fresh leads. Munich police announced aard of one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand marks to anyone offering information that might lead to
Speaker 1: the arrest of a perpetrator, equivalent to twenty thousand US
Speaker 1: dollars in today's money. This was soon increased to half
Speaker 1: a million marks, likely due to the hyperinflation that had
Speaker 1: begun to take hold of the country in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of defeat in the First World War, and though a
Speaker 1: flurry of suspects were offered by numerous locals, spurred on
Speaker 1: by the promise of the reward, nothing came of them.
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Speaker 1: dot com. In the evening of May second, nineteen twenty two,
Speaker 1: three people are gathered round a table in a dark,
Speaker 1: oak paneled room somewhere in Nuremberg. On the table sit
Speaker 1: a number of unopened packages. Two of the group, a
Speaker 1: retired public prosecutor and Paris psychologist doctor Joseph Boehm, watch
Speaker 1: on in quiet expectation as the third, self described medium
Speaker 1: Ellen Jurgens, or Miss Yu as she prefers to be known,
Speaker 1: sits deep in concentration with her eyes closed, when suddenly
Speaker 1: she opens them. There is something there, she says, pointing
Speaker 1: at the largest of the packages. A man that does
Speaker 1: not belong. He looks small, poor and depraved. I see
Speaker 1: a village, a house like a farmhouse. There is a
Speaker 1: room that goes out at the back, and someone hears something.
Speaker 1: Monsieur gathers the package in her arms. It's deadly cold
Speaker 1: and eerie, she says. There is a small child, a
Speaker 1: boy strangled, suffer, hated, crushed in a bed. A young woman,
Speaker 1: old woman, old man, another child. Are the people Catholic?
Speaker 1: Doctor Boem moves forward with excitement, Yes, he says, yes.
Speaker 1: Someone screams something about the child six years Is there
Speaker 1: a six year old child? Close, says Boam again. Monsieur
Speaker 1: places the large package back on the table, inside which
Speaker 1: are the five skulls of the Gruber and Gabriel family.
Speaker 1: Then she grabs a smaller package. This one has Marie's
Speaker 1: skull inside it. There is someone else there too. Her
Speaker 1: name is Marie, looks like a maid. Does she have
Speaker 1: anything to do with it or not? Is she dead too, Marie? Yes,
Speaker 1: I have the feeling that she is dead too. She
Speaker 1: talked to a man at the front door. He had
Speaker 1: high boots with trousers tucked inside them, made from something
Speaker 1: like leather. He has no beard, but used to have one.
Speaker 1: He was suspicious of the farmer. There came a few
Speaker 1: days beforehand to figure everything out. Like God, they'd watched
Speaker 1: all the people, saying to themselves that it must be done.
Speaker 1: It was over in five minutes, and standing watch over
Speaker 1: the bodies as each one fell, Monsieur sensed another man
Speaker 1: or his spirit at least the father of the young girl,
Speaker 1: who'd wanted nothing more than to intervene, but could only
Speaker 1: watch on helplessly from the other realm. The self described
Speaker 1: medium Ellen Jurgens, who had contacted the police to offer
Speaker 1: her services, and with little else to go on, there
Speaker 1: seemed no harm in seeing what she had to say.
Speaker 1: After providing her with the skulls, she and her partner
Speaker 1: in trade, Miss Burr, spent two days attempting to discern
Speaker 1: clues from the spirit world. Despite both painting a compelling
Speaker 1: picture of a possible suspect in a highly theatrical performance,
Speaker 1: they provided little of significance to the police, with the
Speaker 1: exception of one thing. Both Miss Yeur and Miss BurrH
Speaker 1: were adamant that two murder weapons had been used, one
Speaker 1: described strangely as being both blunt and sharp, something hideous
Speaker 1: that was more wide than narrow. In June, a fierce
Speaker 1: battle for ownership of the farm was bought out by
Speaker 1: the Gruber and Gabriel families, with Victoria Gabriel's parents in
Speaker 1: law insisting that since the young Cecilia had been the
Speaker 1: last to die, technically she was the final living owner
Speaker 1: of the property. Therefore the Gabriel family were now its
Speaker 1: legal owners. Eventually an agreement was made in which the
Speaker 1: Gabriels bought the farm from the Grubers, but still no
Speaker 1: perpetrator could be found, and though some tourists of the
Speaker 1: macabre still continued to visit the property, for most of
Speaker 1: the following year, the white Stone farm yard stood empty
Speaker 1: and still giving nothing away. Then, in March nineteen twenty three,
Speaker 1: Carl Gabriel's father did what many had been hoping for,
Speaker 1: as he began the process of tearing the place down.
Speaker 1: At some point in the process, two carpenters who were
Speaker 1: disassembling the roof at the time noticed a couple of
Speaker 1: loose floorboards at the top of the stairs. After clearing
Speaker 1: away the hay, pulling them back, they were astonished to
Speaker 1: find a large mattock underneath. The farm tool that was
Speaker 1: used mainly for digging and chopping, was comprised of a
Speaker 1: long wooden handle and a stout iron head with a
Speaker 1: small vertical blade on one side and a larger horizontal
Speaker 1: blade on the other. It was stained all over with blood.
Speaker 1: A large screw protruding from the base of the head
Speaker 1: matched exactly with the strange star shaped puncture wounds on
Speaker 1: Victoria's skull. A few days later, while excavating the barn,
Speaker 1: a penknife was also found close to where the bodies
Speaker 1: in the barn had been discovered. The discovery of the
Speaker 1: weapons renewed focus on the case. Even Victoria's supposedly deceased husband,
Speaker 1: Carl Gabriel, was considered a suspect, with some speculating that
Speaker 1: perhaps he'd faked his death during the war and returned
Speaker 1: to exact revenge on Andreas and his family. Former soldier
Speaker 1: Adolf Gump also became a leading suspect at one point,
Speaker 1: having been accused of participating in the massacre of nine
Speaker 1: farmers in a politically motivated attack in nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 1: Then in nineteen thirty seven, two brothers of Carl Gabriel
Speaker 1: was said to have confessed their maid that they had
Speaker 1: committed the crime. The pair were arrested and released without charge,
Speaker 1: But before long, with the rise of Adolf Hitler's government
Speaker 1: and a Second World War on the horizon, the events
Speaker 1: at hinter Kaifek was soon to be dwarfed in comparison
Speaker 1: by even greater horrors. Lauren Schlittenbauer, who many considered the
Speaker 1: prime suspect and the case died in nineteen forty one.
Speaker 1: The following year, a bombing raid on Munich destroyed most
Speaker 1: of the case evidence, taking with it two the six
Speaker 1: skulls of the victims. The case would be reopened again
Speaker 1: once the dust of war had settled, and though more
Speaker 1: suspects were proposed, by then, there was little hope of
Speaker 1: finding anything significant enough to make a successful conviction. To day,
Speaker 1: the killings at hint Kayfek Farm are widely considered to
Speaker 1: be one of Germany's most infamous unsolved murders. And though
Speaker 1: the farmhouse has long gone from that quiet patch or
Speaker 1: central Bavaria, the earth soaked with the sweat and blood
Speaker 1: of those who have come before, and those tall, dark
Speaker 1: pines that care not for the foibles of humankind remain.
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