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Actor Brandt during "Totenwald" filming: »You can catapult yourself very quickly into any conceivable milieu via the vehicle of a crime«
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Robin Hinsch / DER SPIEGEL
On July 12, 1989, walkers found the bodies of a married couple in the state forest of Göhrde in Lower Saxony. While the police are investigating the site, another couple dies just 800 meters away. The murder cases have not yet been fully resolved. The alleged perpetrator is the cemetery gardener Kurt-Werner Wichmann, who later committed suicide while in custody. He is also believed to have murdered the wife of an entrepreneur, who has been missing since 1989. It wasn't until more than a quarter of a century later that the police discovered a trail of blood with their DNA on a handcuff from Wichmann's possession. In 2017 her brother Wolfgang Sielaff, the former head of the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office (LKA), found his sister's body on Wichmann's property with a private team of investigators. In the new
ARD
three-part series is
Matthias Brandt
, 59, "Polizeiruf" star and Grimme Prize winner, can be seen in the lead role of the frantically investigating brother (
"The Secret of the Dead Forest"
; from December 2nd in the first).
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