Patrick Kurtz in an Interview with Matthias Bieber from the tz

“It Is Proven: We Are a Crime Nation! Whether as a Book or on the Box: The Crime Genre Is the Most Popular. Almost 46 Million Germans Enjoy Watching Dark Stories on Television, and in Literature Crime and Thriller Far Outrank All Other Genres. We Set Out on a Trail and Present the Darker Sides of Life – Based on True Detective Stories and Exciting Literature.

Will You Join the Snooping?”

 

Matthias Bieber, Foreword to the tz Report “Germany Is a Crime Nation: On the Trail of Abysses”

“A Rescue At The Last Minute – Star Detective Patrick Kurtz (30) Describes Two Cases From His Professional Life”

The Munich-based Patrick Kurtz (30) actually studied literature – “and probably read too much Sherlock Holmes”. Missing-person cases are only a small part of the requests for his Kurtz Detective Agency Munich (Kastanienstraße 7), but they come from all over Germany.

 

“People Contact Us for Two Reasons: Firstly, When They Feel That the Police Would Not Search Thoroughly Enough. And Secondly, When They Want to Be Sure and Really Leave No Stone Unturned – Perhaps Also to Avoid Later Feelings of Guilt.” The Reasons for Running Away Are Diverse, but Almost Always It Is About Pressure. Stress with Parents, at Work, in Love or the Well-Known Debtor Flight.

Searching for People with Mantrailer Dogs (Human-Tracking Dogs)

Kurtz Has “Seven, Eight” Permanent Employees and Around 60 Investigators. “However, They Are All Self-Employed, and I Deploy Them According to Their Strengths for the Assignments.” Missing-Person Cases Usually Last Only Two or Three Days on Average. The Reason Is Obvious: “It Has to Be Quick.” One Missing-Person Case Sticks in Kurtz’s Mind, Who Founded His Office in 2013: “It Took Place in Düsseldorf. A Young Man Had an Exam on Monday; The Day Before He Left a Farewell Letter Saying He Wanted to Kill Himself and Drove Off in the Family Car. Because He Used a Credit Card, We Deployed Mantrailer Dogs.”

 

Mantrailer Dogs Are Highly Trained Trackers, “Which, However, Have Such a Demanding Job That They Can Only Perform It for Half an Hour.” As Three Were in the Team, We Could “Intensively Follow the Trail for One and a Half Hours.” With a Garment of the Missing Person It Went to the Located Cash Machine Where the Young Man Had Withdrawn Money, Then the Dogs Led the Detectives Through the City Centre to a Hotel. “There the Young Man Lay on the Bed with His Wrist Veins Slashed – He Was Unconscious, but We Could Find Him in Time and We Probably Had a Share in the Fact That He Lived. How Things Continued for Him, I Cannot Say.”

Dramatic Missing-Person Case in Bad Reichenhall

Such Cases Do Not Leave Even a Professional Unmoved. Nor Does the One That Shows the Inhuman Pressure on the Searchers. The Case of Andras Specht, Aged 18, from Reichenhall, Became Sadly Famous. The Family Even Involved ZDF in 2018, and Kurtz Took the Assignment from the Broadcaster (Programme Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst – Spezial). “Specht Left a Farewell Letter in November 2012 Saying He Wanted to Kill Himself. He Calls His Ex-Girlfriend the Love of His Life in It.”

 

The Family Still Believes Their Son Is Alive, Says the Star Detective. “It Is Brutal for Them That Even Years After the Disappearance They Receive Hints That Someone Saw Andreas.” Kurtz Is Rather Skeptical. “We Are in Reichenhall! If Someone Wants to Kill Themselves in the Mountains or Forest, the Body Is Quickly Gone Because of Wild Animals.”

Notes

The original article by Matthias Bieber appeared in the tz (print). The emphases (bold) and links on this page may differ from the original.

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