Cold Case: History

Experts have believed for more than 100 years that madness drove Vincent van Gogh to suicide. Pulitzer Prize winner and van Gogh biographer Steven Naifeh seeks to prove that van Gogh was accidentally shot by 16-year-old René Secrétan.

The Medici family dominated politics and the economy in Renaissance Florence. To break the Medici influence, the old-established Pazzi family attempts to assassinate brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici. They succeed only partially, leading to the capture of the perpetrators and a search for the conspirators. In a present-day investigation, Florence Kasumba together with historians such as Marcello Simonetta gathers clues from medicine, psychology, and art history.

On 1 November 1957, 24-year-old luxury call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt was found dead in a flat in Frankfurts Stiftstraße. Her services were popular among male guests of the noble hotels and the moneyed aristocracy. Nitribitts death hit like a bomb in the middle of the economic miracle of the 1950s, yet her murderer was never found. Cold Case reopens the case.