Overview

• Next Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst episode on 20 August will feature a newly added four-count armed supermarket robbery series from Landkreis Vechta.
• Polizeiinspektion Cloppenburg/Vechta increased the reward for information from €3,000 to €5,000 following a lack of breakthroughs in the robberies.
• The four robberies occurred between October 2023 and March 2024 in Langförden, Lutten and Stadt Vechta with perpetrators armed with firearms and knives.
• Viewer tips during the 30 July broadcast generated leads and a new confirmed victim in a Viersen case, demonstrating the format’s impact on live investigations.
• ZDF plans two new 45-minute episodes of its historical spin-off XY History for late September 2025, revisiting postwar criminal cases.