Der Menschenjäger: NDR Series on the Göhrde Murders (2024)
Three episodes on Kurt-Werner Wichmann, the man police named in the Göhrde murders
Der Menschenjäger – Neue Spuren des Göhrde-Mörders is a three-part documentary series from NDR, released on 26 April 2024, about the 1989 Göhrde murders and whether Kurt-Werner Wichmann was behind more crimes than the two double murders.
About the series
The series has three episodes and was released in the ARD Mediathek and shown on NDR. According to TheTVDB, all three episodes came out on the same day, 26 April 2024, running 38, 33 and 32 minutes. The series asks whether Wichmann, known in Germany as the "Göhrde-Mörder", killed more people than police know of, and follows leads pointing to unsolved cases elsewhere in Germany. It builds on the earlier NDR series "Eiskalte Spur". The sources reviewed do not list the director or contributors, so KrimiNyt names no one here.
The episodes
1. "Disco-Morde – Die verschwundenen Mädchen" deals with the so-called disco murders.
2. "Wichmann – Psychogramm eines Serienmörders" deals, according to Mordserie.de, with new indications that Wichmann may have killed as a young man.
3. "Neue Zeuginnen" deals with women who believe they were targeted by Wichmann.
Background
The Göhrde murders are two double murders in the Göhrde State Forest in Lower Saxony in 1989. In December 2017 police named Wichmann, a cemetery gardener from Lüneburg, as the perpetrator. He died in 1993 and was never charged or convicted, and there is no court ruling. Everything the series explores about further crimes is suspicion, not established fact.
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