SinisterCrimes

On this day

8 April

  1. 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.

  2. 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.