Meanwhile, the simultaneous investigations into the double murders in the forest reveal multiple suspects, but they hit similar brick walls in their pursuit of the killer or killers and those murders also continue to go unsolved for nearly 30 years. Bethge promises his mother and himself that he will never give up looking for Barbara or investigating her vanishing, and he keeps his promise as he continues to search for clues to her whereabouts for the next 30 years. Because a body is never found, Barbara’s family, especially Bethge and their mother, are haunted by the unending agony of wondering if Barbara is alive or dead. Still, suspicions linger, even as they investigate other possible suspects. But, because Barbara’s body is never found, there is no direct evidence linking Robert to Barbara’s disappearance. Bethge is out of his jurisdiction, but he can’t help but get involved with the investigation of Barbara’s disappearance, and gets some help from local police detective Anne Bach ( Karoline Schuch), who herself feels frozen out by the old boy’s club in the small-town police station and welcomes the chance to work with Bethge, a decorated and highly regarded national police official, who had made a name for himself by taking on the mob.īach and Bethge investigate various leads for Barbara’s disappearance, with most eyes on Barbara’s ex-husband, local businessman Robert Neder ( Nicholas Ofczarek), who was getting squeezed by his ex-wife financially and was looking to extract himself from her, so he could marry his much younger girlfriend. Distracted and consumed with investigating the double murders, Neder’s disappearance doesn’t rate a high priority for local police, until the arrival of a high-ranking police officer from Hamburg, who happens to be Neder’s brother, Thomas Bethge ( Matthias Brandt). During this same period, Barbara Neder ( Silke Bodenbender), a local divorcee, goes missing after a night of partying. After two pairs of couples are found murdered in the same forest in a rural area of northern Germany within a few weeks of each other in the summer of 1989, a massive police effort begins to root out the killer. Now, North American audiences will get a chance to see it as it will be released on the new streaming service, Topic, starting May 13.ĭark Woods is a true crime drama series based on the real events surrounding a string of murders in 1989 that went unsolved for 30 years. In Germany, one of the most popular shows that aired during the pandemic was a six-part drama series, Dark Woods, which was the most-watched show when it aired last November and December. It wasn’t just in the United States, where shows such as Schitt’s Creek, Ted Lasso and The Queen’s Gambit, among many others, soared in popularity, but all around the world, desperate and bored audiences craved new stories and new shows. Television series that were lucky enough to debut in 2020 were the beneficiaries of a population stuck at home, looking for things to watch.
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