It has been available in the ARD media library since February 7, today it is finally running on TV for the first time: the new crime series traces. From 8:15 p.m. the ARD radiates all four episodes in a rowwhat await you three hours of the best crime thriller entertainment. As an author: Inside, the genre experienced Robert Hummel (Soko Munich) and Martina Mouchot (crime scene), the direction of all episodes took over Stefan Krohmer (they have Knut).
Traces: that’s what the crime series is about
A young jogger initially disappears without a trace in Buchingen in Baden-Württemberg. Criminal officer Barbara Kramer (Nina Kunzendorf) and her colleague Thomas Riedle (Tilman Strauss) take over the missing person, who soon became a matter of murder. The woman’s body is finally found in a forest and makes it clear that she Victim of a violent crime became.
Since there are no evidence of the perpetrator or murder weapon, the begins for Kramer and Riedle multi -layered and meticulous investigation: Indications are collected, potential stuff: questioned inside and every little trace is pursued. When the Kripo duo even a multi -member special commission Expanding is expanded in the nearby Lauburg. Perhaps the two cases together?
A true story? Traces is based on two real criminal cases
For their script, Hummel and Mouchot oriented themselves to traces of the SOKO Erle non -fiction book – the Murder case Carolin G. von Walter Roth, who was a police spokesman for a special commission and provided a deep insight into their detailed investigation in a sex murder in 2016.
The ARD series is not an exact retelling of the events at that time, as the screenwriter: inside to DWDL emphasized:
We wanted to fictionalize the deeds classically, but we wanted to represent police work in detail and realistically. This means that we trace the investigation, but have conceived our investigators and their background. We also invented the venues. We also changed the order of the murder cases and alienated the victims and families.
The real murder of Carolin G., which is also mentioned in the title of the book template, happened on November 6, 2016 in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl. The 27-year-old had not returned from the jogging and was only discovered dead in a forest four days later after a large-scale search. The subsequent autopsy of her body makes it clear that Carolin has been raped and murdered.
Nevertheless, it took around seven months for the perpetrator-the 40-year-old truck driver Catalin C.-be found: his murder weapon, a special iron bar for trucks, was already used in an unexplained murder in 2014 and was targeted by the police. A DNA comparison of the body traces in both cases finally transferred him. At the later court trial in 2017, Catalin C. made a confession and was sentenced to a lifelong prison sentence with subsequent preventive detention .
The Maria Ladenburger murder case served as inspiration for traces
Similar to traces in the series, it was initially considered in reality that the case of Carolin G. was connected to a sex murder committed in Freiburg just three weeks earlier. This assumption later turned out to be wrong, but the case could still be clarified.
On October 16, 2016, 19-year-old medical student Maria Ladenburger was pushed off the bike and then raped and murdered. The special commission Freiburg called shortly afterwards came thanks a hair found near the crime scene on the track of the perpetrator. It was the Afghan refugee Hussein Khavari, who also made a confession in the trial of him in 2018 and was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention.
The case caused a sensation elsewhere, since it was particularly important from the right scene Hass messages and hostility Against Maria’s father came after he called the public to prudence. The EU official always campaigned for refugees and even refused to fuel the hatred of asylum seekers after the loss of his daughter. Instead, together with his wife, he founded a foundation in Mary’s name, the students: supported in a difficult life situation, including refugees.
When is traces on TV?
The German crime series celebrates traces today on February 15th at 8:15 p.m. at ARD your free TV premiere. The exact broadcast times of the individual episodes are as follows:
Alternatively, the entire series is also available free of charge in the ARD media library.