True Cases of a Criminal Defense Lawyer

Imagine having to breathe the same air as a murderer, spend time with them in the same room, talk to them, listen to them, believe them - and then defend them with every legal tool at your disposal in court, in public, before the press. Would you do it? And if so, could you?

Veikko Bartel spent over 13 years as a criminal defense lawyer representing killers in court - across 41 homicide cases involving a total of 68 victims. He wrote about the most gripping of these cases in his book "Mörderinnen und Mörder".

Join Veikko Bartel on a journey through one such mandate. How does it begin? How do you approach these people? What does it do to you? And try to find with him the answer to the question: why does something snap in one person but not another? What has to happen in a person's life for them to become a murderer.