Back in Hamburg, he has problems of his own. But he has an alibi, and Anne has a bunch of superiors who may not be as good at their job as they think they are.īefore she vanished, Thomas was trying to help Barbara through her problems. Anne has a different take, and pushes for the investigation to look into creepy cemetery gardener and sex pest Juergen Becker (Hanno Koffler), who had a run-in with Barbara before she vanished. Karoline Schuch as Anne Bach in ‘Dark Woods’.Īs Robert was the last person to see her alive, and also the first person to report her missing, and also someone with both motive and opportunity, it’s little wonder he is the prime suspect. Could Barbara’s disappearance be somehow connected? For local detective Anne Bach (Karoline Schuch), the lone woman in a sea of testosterone, it’s her first case and it’s getting bigger every minute. One woman possibly fleeing an unhappy marriage wouldn’t usually be a big deal, but two bodies were recently discovered in the nearby forest the investigation around them soon turned up two more victims. Complicating matters, her husband Robert (Nicholas Ofczarek) is looking to leave her for a younger woman, only Barbara knows a little too much about some of his more disreputable business activities and she’s not willing to just fade away. With a rich husband, a troubled marriage, a teenage daughter and a drinking problem, it’s perhaps not all that hard to see why she might want to vanish. Some said maybe it was a bungled execution-style murder, others suggested the killer might have links to the UK military.ĭark Woods begins before all that, with Barbara living an unhappy life in the (fictional) town of Weesenburg. There was no shortage of theories as to the killer or killers, with clues turning up both locally and internationally. The crimes cast a shadow over the region for years, with tourists and locals alike steering clear of the forest – imagine Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in the years after the backpacker murders, only the backpackers were actually murdered in the forest and the murderer was never caught. Karoline Schuch as Anne Bach and Matthias Brandt as Thomas Bethge in ‘Dark Woods’. The missing woman Barbara Neder (Silke Bodenbender) is a version of missing person Birgit Meier her brother Thomas (Matthias Brandt) is based on Wolfgang Sielaff, the one-time chief of the State Criminal Police of Hamburg he was an advisor on this series.
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Then, after the police had officially all but given up, he and his team finally found themselves on the trail of a suspected serial killer. Instead he reached out to colleagues working the case for help, and for the next thirty-odd years, up to his retirement and beyond, he never let go.
He desperately wanted to join the search, but as part of the Hamburg police, he had no jurisdiction in Lower Saxony. Was her disappearance somehow linked to the killings? If so, why was her body missing when the others were swiftly found?įor her brother, it was a nightmare personally and professionally. Coming in the wake of a series of brutal murders in the region that left two couples dead, the case puzzled the local police. Did she fall or was she pushed? We hear inner conversations from police officials and learn that Chelsea’s autopsy showed signs of struggle before her death, and in the toxicology reports, her body was loaded with rat poison.In the summer of 1989, the sister of a Hamburg police chief disappeared from her house near Göhrde State Forest in Lower Saxony.
Chelsea’s body was found by passing hikers in a canyon, and media reported she fell from a 100-ft. The first episode begins with distressing screams from 20-year-old Chelsea, a volunteer park aid in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It’s very similar to a Law & Order episode, and this series would translate very well onto the screen. “Dark Woods” drama deals with fictionalized politics and federal investigations, relationships, and how a community grapples with fear and loss. Producer Dick Wolf wanted to create a podcasting world based on real-world mysteries involving true crime in America’s national parks and how cases are handled by federal police. From the creators of Law & Order comes “Dark Woods,” a fiction series by Endeavor Content and Wolf Entertainment.
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