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XY history

  • 2024 – 2025
  • Returning Series
  • Documentary · Crime
  • ~45m / ep
  • 2 seasons

Spectacular crimes in German criminal history: Investigators and experts explain the possibilities and limitations of investigative work at that time – and why the cases still amaze today.

Latest: Season 2 · 2025

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  1. E1. Deadly Seduction: In Love with a Murderer

    Sep 24, 2025 · 44m

    Two women disappear without a trace. But then their dismembered bodies are discovered on Fehmarn. And a search for missing persons turns into one of the most spectacular murder cases of the post-war era.

  2. E2. Deadly Decision: Bank Robbery 1971

    Sep 24, 2025

    Two masked men, armed, rob a bank branch in Munich. They demand two million Deutsche Marks and a getaway car. Their leverage: six human lives.