The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber his wife Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children, Cäzilia, Josef and the maid, Maria Baumgartner.

They were all found bludgeoned with a mattock. The perpetrator or perpetrators lived with the six victims for three days after they had killed them. During this time, they would eat the food in the house, feed the animals on the property, and start fires in the home's fireplace. The murders are considered one of the most gruesome and puzzling unsolved crimes in German history.

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