Lawyers for the Dead

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Television series
German title Lawyers for the dead - forensic doctors reveal
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1999–2003, 2008–2009, 2012, since 2016
Production
company		 OD Media
length 45 minutes
Episodes 60 as well as 40 specials (20 episodes “The worst serial killers in the world”, 12 episodes “The most spectacular murders from the USA”, 8 episodes “Crimes that moved Germany”, 1 episode “Lawyers for the Dead: In the Head of the Killer”) and 1 pilot episode in 12 seasons
genre Docu-drama series
production Olivier Deflou
German-language
first broadcast		 December 21, 1999 on RTL

Lawyers for the Dead - Forensic Doctors Uncover is a German documentary series in which detectives, forensic doctors, criminal biologists, criminal psychologists and public prosecutors report on their work in investigating unexplained or unclear deaths. Klaus-Dieter Klebsch and Patrick Linke act as speakers . The television series is produced by OD Media.

content

The cases are presented on the basis of the case files at the time and with the participation of the investigating police officers, forensic doctors and relatives of the victims. In the series, the viewers are presented with the cases using archived investigation files, investigation methods (e.g. genetic fingerprints ), interviews with those involved in the investigation, personal relatives and friends, and evidence. At the end of each episode, the viewer is also informed of the court ruling on the perpetrator treated in the case. Despite the actual events, changed names of the victims are often used.

Production and broadcast

The pilot episode was broadcast on April 29, 1997, and the series began on December 21, 1999. From 2000 to 2020, the series ran at irregular intervals on the channels RTL , VOX , RTL Nitro , RTL Crime and RTLplus. At the beginning of July 2015, RTL ordered eight new episodes from OD Media. It was broadcast on RTL from September 1, 2016 and ended on October 27, 2016.

In September 2017, RTL announced the broadcast of further new episodes. RTL had 20 new episodes produced with a focus on serial murders. These new episodes were broadcast from October 9th under the additional title “The worst serial killers in the world”. Criminal psychologist Lydia Benecke and forensic doctor Carsten Babian participated in the episodes . Since March 2020, eight episodes of a produced season Lawyers of the Dead - Crimes That Moved Germany have been broadcast.

Episodes (selection)

  • The girl from the Main
  • The carpet corpse of Magdeburg
  • Double murder by Babenhausen
  • Parricide by Morschen
  • Cannibal from Koblenz
  • Murder without a corpse
  • Murder of Irish student Sinead O'Neill (also in unsolved murders ) This murder was only cleared up 13 years later through a DNA comparison.
  • Peter Pompetzki
  • Police murder in Holzminden
  • Rhine-Ruhr ripper
  • Black Widow von Bodenfelde
  • Aurich serial killer
  • Eaten by maggots
  • Maria Velten
  • Murder of Yilmaz Tatli - torso from the Oker dam
  • Berlin dermatologist as a prostitute murderer
  • Murder of a dentist - The dead man in the pool
  • Double murder of Sergo Gerashchenko and Dmitry Galushko in Frankfurt's Volkspark
  • The corpse in the concrete base
  • The murder of Alexandra Ryll, murdered by a neighbor and buried in his cellar
  • Contract murder of a Braunschweig architect on December 1, 1999
  • The murder of the beverage wholesaler Gerhard Kreiner from Flörsheim am Main
  • The murderous nurse: A pharmacy assistant kills a 73-year-old pensioner in Berlin
  • The speed trap killer: The bus driver Lothar K. kills a police officer and injures another in front of a speed control near Kirchheim unter Teck , he was afraid of losing his driver's license
  • Murder of the teacher Isolde Freitag from Ahrensburg because of bad grades
  • Murder of the student Sabine Steffen from Hanau
  • Murders of two deaf-mute senior citizens in Hanover in September 2001 and a couple in Bad Oeynhausen in November 2001
  • Murder of a taxi driver from Quakenbrück
  • Murder of a construction worker after an attack on the Kreissparkasse in Meyenburg in 1991. After 17 years the case was solved in 2008, the second perpetrator had already died
  • Undertakers murder a colleague and cremate him under a false name
  • Murder of 15-year-old Stefanie Rüggeberg on Mallorca
  • Roy E. killed his fiancée Nadine K.
  • Quadruple murder by Eislingen
  • The corpse from the Rezat near Ansbach
  • The murder of the pregnant teenager Maike Thiel from Leegebruch in 1997. The case was not solved until 2014.
  • Murder of a nurse in Passau . She caught her killer breaking into her home.
  • Schwabing's knife stabber: Frank N. stabbed women indiscriminately in Munich- Schwabing in the summer of 1997 and seriously injured them. For this he was sentenced in May 1998 to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention.
  • The murderer next door: Bernd B. kills his neighbor Herbert H. and cuts the corpse. Packed in bags, he hides the parts in the city park of Annaberg-Buchholz .
  • A bricklayer kills his wife with an iron bar in the damp forest and then concretes her in the cellar.
  • Double murder in Frankfurt (Oder) : Klaus-Dieter W. kills his ex-girlfriend Heike Nagler and her four-month-old son Göran. He buries her in a forest near the Frankfurt suburb of Lossow . The case is only resolved 9 years later.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawyers of the Dead - The Worst Serial Killers in the World. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Death of a young woman is atoned for after 13 years. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Court sentences son to life imprisonment. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Life sentence for prostitute killers. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The murder of the dentist with knockout drops. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ A double murder in the Volkspark Niddatal solved, perpetrators arrested. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Woman's body set in concrete in the cellar. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Judgment: Life imprisonment for the murderer of the 21 year old Alexandra. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Assassination: Again for life for karate teachers. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Twice life sentences for murder. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ It was only by chance that the murder came to light. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  12. ^ "Life sentence" for police murderer Kupka now legally binding. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Bad grades led to the murder of the teacher. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  14. ↑ DNA analysis leads to the goal: Sex murder of Hanau schoolgirl resolved after ten years. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Lifelong for the murder of a retired couple. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  16. ↑ The taxi murder of Quakenbrück. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  17. ^ Bank robbers convicted of murder after 17 years. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Long prison terms for murdering undertakers. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Mallorca murder: first judgment confirmed by the court exactly. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Murder instead of marriage: Life imprisonment. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Lifelong: Brutal murderers receive their verdict. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Maike Thiel's murder trial ends twice for life. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Passauer Messer-Mörder BGH confirms preventive detention. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  24. ↑ The knife knife from Schwabing. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Neighbor chopped up and put in bags. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Life imprisonment in the murder trial against German bricklayers. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Life imprisonment for the murderer of Heike and Göran Nagler. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .