Cold Case

It is the 1st of November 1957 when the police open a flat in Frankfurt's Stiftstraße and smell an acrid odor. There she lies - the 24-year-old luxury call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt.

In 2012, the palaeopathologist Albert Zink and colleagues travel to Cairo. They are to examine the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses III for the first-time using computer tomography. And they find a sensation.

Two boys are waiting in the Tower of London for their big day of celebration. The older boy is just 12 years old in the summer of 1483 and is to be crowned King of England.

Vincent van Gogh always lived and worked on the border between genius and madness. And this madness drove him to suicide with a death wish. This has been the official thesis for more than 100 years.

The Medici are the most powerful family in Renaissance Florence. They dominate politics and the economy. The old-established Pazzi family wants to break the Medici influence.

In August 1962, America loses its blonde angel: Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. The official cause of death: ‘probably suicide’. But this is more than doubtful.