Berlin

Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer is a Netflix documentary series about the 2012 'Coma Killer' murders in Berlin, where a man drugged and killed gay men in LGBTQ bars using GHB.

Guided true crime tours in Berlin take visitors to historic crime scenes, execution sites, and murder cases spanning from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The tours offer a chilling look at the darker chapters of one of Europe's most storied cities.

In spring 2012, a teacher trainee named Dirk P. poisoned three men with GBL — commonly known as Liquid Ecstasy — at a Berlin bar with a darkroom and in victims' private apartments. He was convicted of triple murder in June 2013 and sentenced to life in prison.

A 40-year-old palliative care physician in Berlin stands accused of systematically murdering at least 15 patients between 2021 and 2024. Wire-tapped phone conversations revealed his crimes.

On August 23, 2019, Chechen dissident Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot and killed in Berlin's Tiergarten. A German court later established that the Russian state was responsible for the murder.

Rebecca Reusch, a 12-year-old German-Danish girl, disappeared from her family home in Berlin's affluent Lichterfelde district on February 18, 2019. The disappearance triggered Germany's most high-profile missing person investigation in two decades, with police focusing on her 27-year-old cousin. The case remains unsolved to this day, with no body found and no charges filed.