WEBVTT - S05 Episode 9: Tenebrous (Pt. 2 of 2) 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.720 The following episode contains disturbing and graphic scenes that are 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.599 not suitable for children. Parental discretion is advised. You're listening 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:31.440 to Unexplained, Season five, episode nine, Tenebrous, Part two. The 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.680 cars turned off the main road and headed deeper into 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.720 the fields, toward the small, solitary light in the distance. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.559 Behind it, a vast wall of trees, silhouetted under a 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.080 pale half moon, stood still and black, growing ever taller 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.880 the closer they got. And on they continued toward the 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.880 light that seemed to be luring them in like a silent, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:02.760 haunting beacon, toward an unfathomable horror. Inside the cars, a 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.120 team of investigators from Eunich, led by fifty five year 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.920 old George Rheinruber, as well as Mayor Gregor of Vangen, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.080 the next village east of Gruben, prepared themselves for the worst. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.280 The local district police, having been first to arrive on 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.560 the scene at hinter Kaifek, had quickly realized they were 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.520 woefully out of their depth. They had called in the 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.040 Munich Force in a desperate plea for help. Rheinruber's team 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.520 hadn't arrived in the area until after one am, prompting 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.640 them to spend the night at the mayor's residence in 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.160 Vangen before making their way to the farm first thing 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.160 in the morning. It had just gone six am when 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.399 the cars finally pulled into the courtyard on Wednesday, April fifth. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.840 As the seven officers, two police dogs, and the mayor 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.280 stepped out into the chilly morning air, Lourene Schlittenbauer appeared 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.640 at the front door of the main house, his footsteps 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:03.640 echoing about the courtyard as he approached. Lorenz quickly introduced 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.919 himself as one of the men who had first found 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.000 the bodies, and that he'd been there all night guarding 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.760 the scene for them. Ryan Gruber was struck immediately by 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.520 the man's odd, nervous energy, a natural consequence perhaps of 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.240 the fact he hadn't slept since the night before, But 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.560 as to why he'd taken it on himself to stay 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.160 at the property, he was less sure. As Lorenz continued 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.080 to babble about everything he knew of the family and 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:35.800 how he discovered the bodies, Ryan Gruber eventually interrupted. Perhaps 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.639 he said, we should take a look for ourselves, and so, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.600 as the first light of dawn began to break, Lorenz 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.720 turned and led the investigator and his team into the barn. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.799 The bodies of Andreas and the young Cecilia had been 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.080 placed against the far wall, a small pool of blood 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.280 on the hay, in the spot where they'd first been found. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.320 The other two bodies, those of Victoria and the elder Cecilia, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.639 had been pulled through a doorway into a stable corridor 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.399 linking the barn to the main house. When asked why 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.600 the bodies had been moved, Lorenz explained that he was 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.720 looking for his son, who at first he thought might 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.680 be there too. Rhine Gruber made a quick inspection of 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.000 their injuries, then turned his attention to the door between 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.480 the two areas. It was covered in blood splatter. There 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.840 was something else, said Lawrence, leading the inspector through to 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:44.240 the stable corridor. That he said, pointing to a pickaxe 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.760 leaning up against a feeding trough in the corner. He'd 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.800 found it the day before, he said. The inspector took 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.240 a closer look, noticing a few dark spots on the handle, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.200 but little else. Perhaps the cattle had licked it clean, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:07.400 suggested Lorenz, Perhaps, said rhine Gruber in reply. Lorenz then 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.880 led the team into the kitchen. While two of the 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.080 officers made their way into the attic, rhine Gruber took 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.760 note of the now moldy food that had been left 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.600 out in a pan and blood spots on the stone 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.240 floor as they continued through, Arriving at the doorway to 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.800 maria the maid's room. Running his hand over the door frame, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.359 the inspector spotted a few splatters and some more on 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.880 the ground, but no bloody hand or footprints. Looking through, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.200 he saw Maria's body partially obscured by a mattress, lying 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:45.080 in a fetal position. Evidently she had been attacked while 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.480 preparing for bed, perhaps crouching down for cover in a 0:04:48.600 --> 0:05:00.960 vain attempt to protect herself. Next was Victoria's room. The 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.239 place appeared to have been ransacked, with cupboards flung open 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.640 and the bed unmade. A watch and an empty purse 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.839 had been left out on top of it, prompting rhine 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.800 Gruber to wonder if theft had been the motive. Lorens 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.520 informed him that the family was said to have kept 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.760 around a hundred thousand marks at the property, close to 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.839 four thousand US dollars in today's money. The inspector approached 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.479 the baby stroller at the end of the bed and 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.240 pulled back the dress that was draped over it to 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:37.680 reveal the blood soaked baby Joseph underneath, his face, unrecognizable 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.320 from the blows. The hood of the pram had also 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.680 been torn apart, suggesting it had been closed when the 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.400 killer struck. Perhaps even they had found the thought of 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.479 killing a baby too much and couldn't bear to have 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.359 to see what they were doing. That all the bodies 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.480 had been covered over without any real attempt to hide 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.360 them was an indication, perhaps of the killer's sense of shame, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.200 a shame likely only felt by someone who knew the victims. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.520 Rhyme Gruber stared up at the three religious icons hanging 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.760 on the wall above the bed and the three crucifixes 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.159 hanging underneath them. Then a call came down from the 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:30.680 attic above. 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Rhine Grouper's 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.400 men were standing to the side in a section of 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.280 the attic above the stable corridor, pointing at something on 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.400 the hay covered floor. As Rhine Grouper drew near, he 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.280 caught the unmistakable noxious whiff of it. It was human excrement. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.600 There were also bacon ryan scattered about two and two 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.679 indentations in the hay suggesting the possibility of two perpetrators. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.600 Then one of the officers noticed a kink of light 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.240 coming through the roof. Moving toward it, he found that 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.600 a number of tiles there had been loosened. A similar 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.240 set of loose tiles were found in another section of 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.880 the attic over the main barn. Anyone looking out of 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.960 the gaps in the roof would have had a clear 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.640 view of the courtyard and the entrance to the main 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:34.040 house had they been watching the family. Rhyan group of thought. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.720 The family's bread supply, usually well stocked, was empty, while 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.720 some smoked meat appeared to have been taken after their 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.079 deaths in their absence. The livestock had also been watered 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.040 and fed, all in all, suggesting that whoever had done 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.480 this had not been gone long After. A thorough search 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:00.120 of the house, investigators uncovered around fifteen thousand marks in 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.960 various denominations of cash and gold, but no sign of 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.320 the hundred thousand marks that Lorenz claimed was kept at 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.720 the property. With the bodies having been moved, it was 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.280 difficult to ascertain who had been murdered first, but aside 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.960 from baby Joseph and Maria, it seemed reasonable to assume 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.880 the victims had been lured into the barn one by 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.640 one and then bludgeoned violently to death. Since seven year 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.240 old Cecilia hadn't been seen at school on Saturday, the 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.839 murders were considered to have taken place on the night 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.760 of Friday, March thirty first, only hours after Maria Baumgartner 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.440 had arrived at the farm to begin her new job. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.040 Just then, rhine Gruber heard a commotion outside and stepped 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.000 into the courtyard to find a small crowd of onlookers 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.880 had gathered at the edge of the property, desperate to 0:09:52.880 --> 0:10:02.800 see the murder scene for themselves. It was early in 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.120 the afternoon when doctor Johann al Mullah, the district court doctor, 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.200 arrived from the nearby town of Neuburg ad Donnau to 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.760 carry out the autopsies. One by one, the bodies were 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.520 taken from out of the farmhouse and laid side by 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.240 side in the middle of the courtyard as the ever 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.840 growing crowd of onlookers jostled for the best view. A 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.640 door was placed over two wooden tressels as a makeshift table, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.160 and then, with the help of two porters and clerk assistant, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.320 twenty seven year old Heinrich Nay, the first of the 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.600 bodies was lifted on to it. The bodies were pale 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.720 and gray, the skin like rubber, with liver mortis and 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:51.240 dark patches underneath where the blood had pulled. For Andreas, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.400 death had come quickly, having been bludgeoned to death with 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.000 a blunt object that pulverized the right side of his face. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.160 Maria Baumguard and the young Joseph were similarly killed with 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.520 heavy blows to the head and face. Victoria and her 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.920 mother's injuries, however, were subtly different, suggesting they'd endured something 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:17.720 even worse. Both displayed bruising around the neck, as if 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.719 they'd been strangled before being beaten. Both their skulls had 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.200 been smashed, but Victoria also had nine peculiar star shaped 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.640 puncture wounds in hers. The crowd gasped as seven year 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.400 old Cecilia's body was lifted from the ground and placed 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.640 on the table. The lower jaw was shattered and her 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.480 head smashed, but there was also a huge gaping wound 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.480 on her neck, suggesting the weapon had not only been 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:52.280 blunt put sharp to Doctor al Mullah noticed something scrunched 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.200 up in her right hand, prying the fingers open, he 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.880 found a clump of Cecilia's hair inside. The doctor concluded 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.240 that she'd likely survived for some time after the attack 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.120 and had clawed it out of her own head in 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:13.120 the agony and confusion. Having finished his investigations, doctor al 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.600 Mullah reached for his surgical sore and began methodically to 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:22.520 remove Cecilia's head from the body, a thick bluish blood 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.320 oozing onto the table as he went. The process was 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.240 repeated for each of the bodies, with the heads being 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.240 backed up and sent to the Pathology Institute at the 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:43.480 University of Munich for further investigation. With the autopsies complete, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.120 Heinrich and the porters gathered each headless body onto a 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.520 stretcher and returned them to the barn. Having brought the 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.319 rest of the bodies in, the young Cecilia's was the 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.720 last to be returned. Placing the headless corpse onto the stretcher, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.080 the porters each grabbed an end and headed toward the 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:07.280 barn as Heinrich Nay followed close behind. As the porters 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.600 stepped inside, one of them cried out in horror and 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.560 dropped the stretcher, knocking the body to the floor. 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This, however, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.280 was a lie, as reported by many others. As soon 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.000 as word had got out, a number of villagers had 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.160 descended on the property, keen to see the murder scene. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.120 Lorenz had not only welcomed them, but shown them around 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.760 the property himself. One man had even paused in the 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.680 kitchen to fix himself a snack. But there were other 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.600 concerning things too. It was strange, thought Michael Pearl, when 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.000 giving his statement later how Lawrence had managed to unlock 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.520 the front door and let them into the property in 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.680 the first place. Lawrence himself had told him that Andreas 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.320 had complained about one of his house keys going missing. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.880 Lorenz maintained that he'd merely found it sticking out of 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.600 the lock when he went to open the door for 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.520 Jacob Siegel, it was the strangeness of Lorenz's calm demeanor 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.840 and eagerness to move the bodies that most stuck out 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.480 to him. Despite his and Michael's protestations that they should 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:03.040 leave the scene untouched, Lorenz gnawed them immediately after finding 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:07.240 the bodies. As Siegel explained, he'd set about fetching milk 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.480 from the cellar to feed the pigs and rearranging other 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.800 parts of the house. At one point, he'd even suggested 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.480 that Jacob go into the hay loft and throw down 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.919 some hay for the cattle to eat, but Jacob refused, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.640 and he and Michael left the property soon after, wanting 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.600 nothing more to do with it. Michael was so suspicious 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.440 of Lawrence's behavior, according to Jacob, that he accused him 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.600 then and there of being the murderer, although in his 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:46.440 own statement Michael neglected to a portion any blame. It 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.000 was certainly well known amongst the community what Lawrence's feelings 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.160 were toward Victoria. As it turned out, he'd actually gone 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.280 as far as to ask for her hand in marriage, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.600 only to be denied it by her father Andreas. Investigator 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:06.399 Rhine Gruber also spoke to Franciska Maria Baumgartner's sister and 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:13.439 Bernard Gruber, Andreas's brother, but nothing valuable was ascertained. In 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:18.640 the end, Rheine Gruber concluded that although Lorenz's behavior was bizarre, 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.720 it wasn't in itself evidence that the man was guilty 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.439 of the crime. 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On the table sit 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.560 a number of unopened packages. Two of the group, a 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:10.200 retired public prosecutor and Paris psychologist doctor Joseph Boehm, watch 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:15.320 on in quiet expectation as the third, self described medium 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.920 Ellen Jurgens, or Miss Yu as she prefers to be known, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:25.520 sits deep in concentration with her eyes closed, when suddenly 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.400 she opens them. There is something there, she says, pointing 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.120 at the largest of the packages. A man that does 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:39.600 not belong. He looks small, poor and depraved. I see 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:44.920 a village, a house like a farmhouse. There is a 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.080 room that goes out at the back, and someone hears something. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.560 Monsieur gathers the package in her arms. It's deadly cold 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.760 and eerie, she says. There is a small child, a 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:04.639 boy strangled, suffer, hated, crushed in a bed. A young woman, 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:10.320 old woman, old man, another child. Are the people Catholic? 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.800 Doctor Boem moves forward with excitement, Yes, he says, yes. 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:21.080 Someone screams something about the child six years Is there 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:26.080 a six year old child? Close, says Boam again. Monsieur 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:30.000 places the large package back on the table, inside which 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.320 are the five skulls of the Gruber and Gabriel family. 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:38.040 Then she grabs a smaller package. This one has Marie's 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:42.680 skull inside it. There is someone else there too. Her 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.520 name is Marie, looks like a maid. Does she have 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:51.640 anything to do with it or not? Is she dead too, Marie? Yes, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.560 I have the feeling that she is dead too. She 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.280 talked to a man at the front door. He had 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:02.720 high boots with trousers tucked inside them, made from something 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:06.720 like leather. He has no beard, but used to have one. 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.120 He was suspicious of the farmer. There came a few 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:16.280 days beforehand to figure everything out. Like God, they'd watched 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:20.160 all the people, saying to themselves that it must be done. 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:26.040 It was over in five minutes, and standing watch over 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:30.399 the bodies as each one fell, Monsieur sensed another man 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.400 or his spirit at least the father of the young girl, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.399 who'd wanted nothing more than to intervene, but could only 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:48.760 watch on helplessly from the other realm. The self described 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:52.359 medium Ellen Jurgens, who had contacted the police to offer 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.280 her services, and with little else to go on, there 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:57.560 seemed no harm in seeing what she had to say. 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.080 After providing her with the skulls, she and her partner 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:06.119 in trade, Miss Burr, spent two days attempting to discern 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:11.040 clues from the spirit world. Despite both painting a compelling 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:15.000 picture of a possible suspect in a highly theatrical performance, 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:18.960 they provided little of significance to the police, with the 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:23.800 exception of one thing. Both Miss Yeur and Miss BurrH 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:27.800 were adamant that two murder weapons had been used, one 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:33.360 described strangely as being both blunt and sharp, something hideous 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:38.919 that was more wide than narrow. In June, a fierce 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.760 battle for ownership of the farm was bought out by 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:45.920 the Gruber and Gabriel families, with Victoria Gabriel's parents in 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:49.560 law insisting that since the young Cecilia had been the 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:53.320 last to die, technically she was the final living owner 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:57.320 of the property. Therefore the Gabriel family were now its 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:01.840 legal owners. Eventually an agreement was made in which the 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:06.480 Gabriels bought the farm from the Grubers, but still no 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.080 perpetrator could be found, and though some tourists of the 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:14.240 macabre still continued to visit the property, for most of 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:18.359 the following year, the white Stone farm yard stood empty 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:24.800 and still giving nothing away. Then, in March nineteen twenty three, 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.520 Carl Gabriel's father did what many had been hoping for, 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.639 as he began the process of tearing the place down. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.879 At some point in the process, two carpenters who were 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:40.119 disassembling the roof at the time noticed a couple of 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.000 loose floorboards at the top of the stairs. After clearing 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:47.040 away the hay, pulling them back, they were astonished to 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:51.399 find a large mattock underneath. The farm tool that was 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:54.879 used mainly for digging and chopping, was comprised of a 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:58.600 long wooden handle and a stout iron head with a 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:02.560 small vertical blade on one side and a larger horizontal 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:06.680 blade on the other. It was stained all over with blood. 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.600 A large screw protruding from the base of the head 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:15.199 matched exactly with the strange star shaped puncture wounds on 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:20.480 Victoria's skull. A few days later, while excavating the barn, 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:24.280 a penknife was also found close to where the bodies 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:34.080 in the barn had been discovered. The discovery of the 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:39.520 weapons renewed focus on the case. Even Victoria's supposedly deceased husband, 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.879 Carl Gabriel, was considered a suspect, with some speculating that 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:47.440 perhaps he'd faked his death during the war and returned 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:52.320 to exact revenge on Andreas and his family. Former soldier 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.760 Adolf Gump also became a leading suspect at one point, 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.280 having been accused of participating in the massacre of nine 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.920 farmers in a politically motivated attack in nineteen twenty one. 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.720 Then in nineteen thirty seven, two brothers of Carl Gabriel 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.920 was said to have confessed their maid that they had 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:15.560 committed the crime. The pair were arrested and released without charge, 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:20.080 But before long, with the rise of Adolf Hitler's government 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:23.359 and a Second World War on the horizon, the events 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.520 at hinter Kaifek was soon to be dwarfed in comparison 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:32.080 by even greater horrors. Lauren Schlittenbauer, who many considered the 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:35.800 prime suspect and the case died in nineteen forty one. 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.760 The following year, a bombing raid on Munich destroyed most 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:44.280 of the case evidence, taking with it two the six 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:48.320 skulls of the victims. The case would be reopened again 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:51.320