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Not everything works though, in particular, the subplot involving Thomas and Barbara’s mother becomes redundant. Set over a twenty-nine-year period, the story has more time to capture the emotional toll for everyone involved. Thomas begins coordinating with Bach which reveals bureaucratic issues within her department and major negligence towards the Chain of Custody. Eventually, she gets sober and everything is looking promising before she suddenly vanishes. Back in Hamburg, Thomas is hosting Barbara and offers her to stay as long as needed. Bach hypothesizes two or three perpetrators are involved which upsets Loshe and punishes Bach by making her tell the surviving daughters their parents have been killed. Four bodies, and no answers the small and inexperienced department begins to get overwhelmed.Īfter identifying the bodies from the first murders, Wesenberg’s lead inspector, Lohse (Karsten Mielke), holds a briefing. Incredibly, this actually happened, while the police were at the first crime scene, the killer fired off the shots that would lead them to the second double murder in the Forest. Bach meets fellow detective Jan Gerke (August Wittgenstein) who’s somewhat friendly but ignores her claims of hearing gunshots. A prior double murder in the forest brings Anne Bach (Karoline Schuch), a young attractive detective on her first day with the Wesenberg police department.

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This scene recalled the harrowing moment in David Fincher’s “Zodiac” that featured a couple having an idyllic picnic before being attacked by the titular hooded serial killer. The story moves to a middle-aged couple being intimate where they are confronted by a man wielding a small-bore rifle. Barbara is still distraught but exits before causing any more issues. He promises to buy her a new home and begs her to not cause a scene in front of their teenage daughter. Afterward, Barbara leaves in her slick Mercedes SL convertible and pulls up to a warehouse where she approaches her estranged husband Robert (Nicolas Ofczarek). His sister Barbara (Silke Bodenbender) arrives, saddened by a recent separation but does her best to keep the mood upbeat. After the arrest, Thomas’s department and family attend a formal ceremony announcing his new role overseeing a special operations unit tasked with ending organized crime. Beginning in Hamburg in 1989, the Berlin Wall is nearly kaput and Thomas, obviously younger, is taking down a prominent mobster in the city’s Red Light District. He reflects on the last twenty-nine years trying to solve the mystery. Thomas Bethge (Matthias Brandt), grey-haired and wrinkled, is a retired federal police inspector haunted by the disappearance of his sister. Although there are typical elements found in police procedurals like red herrings, it’s interesting to see different federal police agencies not cooperating and archaic German laws which can obstruct investigations. Based on the true story of an enigmatic killer stalking victims in Lower Saxony in Germany, the series, written by Katja Wenzel and Stefan Kolditz, feels accurate and respectful. Thankfully, “Dark Woods” centers on the people affected by a serial killer while avoiding sensationalizing the tragic events. Most fail to focus on the victims or their families. True Crime continues to be a popular genre for podcasts documentaries and adaptations.

And the agony of those who are left behind by a chillingly brutal crime. The desperate search of one brother for his sister. A case that remained a mystery for nearly thirty years.

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