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The authors also suggest that Mueller may have been responsible for the 1922 [[Hinterkaifeck murders]] in Germany. The murders bear some similarities to the US crimes, including the slaughter of an entire family in their isolated home, use of the blunt edge of a farm tool as a weapon (a [[pick axe]]), and the apparent absence of robbery as a motive. The authors suspect that Mueller, described as a German immigrant in contemporary media, might have departed the US for his homeland after private investigators and journalists began to notice and publicize patterns in family murders across state lines following the brazen 1911 murder of two families in a single night in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]], and a similar family murder weeks afterward a few hundred miles away in neighboring [[Kansas]].<ref name="James2018">Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James (2017). The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. NY: Scribner {{ISBN|978-1-4767-9625-3}}</ref>

 

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