Overview

• ARD schedules the first Frankfurt installment for Sunday, October 5, at 20:15, introducing Melika Foroutan and Edin Hasanović as the new duo.
• Hessischer Rundfunk’s concept retools the Frankfurt arm to work exclusively on long‑unsolved murders as a dedicated Cold Case unit.
• The premiere episode, titled "Dunkelheit," is based on a real case known locally as the "Hessen‑Ripper" Manfred S., without revealing story details.
• Reports underscore that Hasanović’s father, Senad, vanished on June 1, 1992 near Klisa in Bosnia, with family accounts citing abduction by Serb paramilitaries and historians pointing to mass graves from that period.
• Hasanović, who fled to Germany as an infant with his mother and later starred in the Oscar‑recognized All Quiet on the Western Front, keeps a pendant engraved "Volim te" from his father and says two more Frankfurt episodes are slated to film next year.