Eight-year-old Johanna does not return home from playing on September 2, 1999. The case will keep the police busy for 18 years.

From one day to the next, an elderly couple disappears without a trace.

10-year-old Mirco doesn't come home from playing at night. Sven Voss solved one of the most famous child murder cases in Germany in this episode of “XY”.

A 57-year-old department head was kidnapped in the early morning of January 17, 2003, right in front of her workplace. There is no trace of her.

In December 1996, the naked and disfigured body of a man was found in a disused gravel pit in Kleve. A complicated case that has kept the police busy for 25 years.

A 35-year-old Yazidi woman from Iraq leads a hard life in Germany full of violence, rejection, and contempt. She flees and begins a self-determined life—the price is high.

A 40-year-old woman disappears without warning on Valentine's Day 2008. Her two children are left sad and perplexed. They search for answers to the question "What happened?"

A 48-year-old man is shot in the back in his home. Police find traces of blood at the crime scene – but did they come from the perpetrator?

A boy disappears. A nightmare for his parents. While the police search for the child, a second boy goes missing. The police are under pressure. Is a serial killer at work?

Early in the morning, a woman's body is discovered in the street. She is naked and without any personal belongings. Who is the woman who was so brutally murdered?

An 8-year-old girl has forgotten her keys and is waiting for her parents. When a driver approaches her, the child gets in. Months later, a young boy is lured into the same car.

An 89-year-old woman lives alone. She doesn't own any significant assets. Yet one day she becomes the target of brutal assailants who break into her home and fatally injure her.

A 23-year-old woman disappears without a trace. Days later, her father finds her body in a wooded area—naked and covered with branches. Despite intensive investigations, the police find little evidence.

On June 27, 2995, four masked and heavily armed men stormed a bank branch in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf. They took 16 customers and employees hostage.

A 54-year-old accountant is literally executed at her workplace. Everything looks like a contract killing.

The power suddenly goes out in an apartment building. A resident rings the doorbell of the apartment above hers – no one answers. Jochen Strecker, Berlin's "Disco King," has been murdered.