On this day
8 April
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1922
The victims are buried at Waidhofen; the Bavarian interior ministry offers a reward of 100,000 marks.
Hinterkaifeck Unsolved
Six people were killed on a lonely Bavarian farm in 1922, and someone kept feeding the cattle for days afterwards. A century later no one has been charged.
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1930
Governor Roosevelt appoints Crater to the New York Supreme Court.
Judge Crater Unsolved
On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.