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Podcast: The Tales We Tell
Episode: Ep. 128: The Hinterkaifeck Murders
Description: On the morning of April 4, 1922, a chilling scene met Albert Hofner as he approached a small farmstead on the outskirts of town for a scheduled appointment to repair some farm equipment. The yard and house were eerily still; the only sound came from the livestock contentedly grazing, or the small watchdog that was kept in the barn barking from time to time. The family would not come out to meet him. What he couldn’t know at the time was that just feet away from where he eventually began silently working on the feed machine, were the bodies of si...