Oh hey Hinterkaifeck. Bit of an over-exposed case, though for understandable reasons given how unironically creepy the general narrative of the events were, so I will probably watch to see his take later on today. Odds are it will be just another pedestrian explainer with some surface level analysis of the more popular theories, but so long as he doesn't try to give undue credence to either...
a) the "Man from the Train" shit which posits that each and every instance of home invasion mass murder in southern burgerland during the 1910s which
I already shittalked on a Jack the Ripper thread
b) the retarded ass "the Nazis did it" theory I have seen occasionally crop up because....fuck I don't know. Seems to have become somewhat widespread due to that shitty BedtimeStories channel
...I will refrain from rolling my eyes too hard
I once read a summary of book, Der Gruber war's (it was the Gruber), by Swiss author Adolf Köppel about the case. I agree that the theory of the father killing the rest of the family is the most plausible one. I don't believe that Lorenz had anything to do with it and it could've been just some random robber going into the wrong place at a very wrong time.
I have seen this theory before and honestly it feels a reach for him to snap and murder his family, and then a couple days later to be murdered himself. I am aware he was a sickfuck based on him being convicted for incest after being caught raping his daughter and there were apparently a whole bunch of even worse rumours floating around the village about him and his proclivities, however a lot of the explanations I see for why he snapped feel just baselessly speculative. Honestly the neighbour being the killer as is so often assumed also feels a bit of an awkward reach as the property remained occupied by the murderer(s) for four days after the killings which would have been nearly impossible for the guy to pull off while also juggling his own farm and household.
Personally given the time frame of post WW1 Germany in the middle of a dozen different crises and the reports of vagrants lurking around the farm during the time frame, I think that some scumfuck or scumfucks who had just been demobilised were making their way through the area when they heard the rumours about the much despised and maligned family and decided they were an easy mark who would not be missed.
After killing the family they assumed they could kick back a while due to how seemingly isolated the place felt, possibly feeding the animals round this time in the hope this would make it look like nothing was amiss, only for a series of tradesmen the family had contracted to show up in the next few days spooking them and making them realise they were not actually that isolated and that only dumb luck prevented their crime being instantly discovered. After two or three days they bailed, with the house barely having anything of worth beyond cheap jewellery and paper money which was of rather questionable value at this time in germany, hitting the road again and vanishing.
