It is the most spectacular and certainly the most prominent case so far in the TV series “Autopsy – Real Cases with Tsokos and Liefers”. The actor (who, by coincidence, plays an odd forensic doctor in the ARD crime scene in Münster) and the “real” Berlin medical professor Michael Tsokos, a specialist in homicides in the German capital, are investigating together. The digital camera records.
In the Whitney Houston case, there is an outside view that could well result in a legal reassessment of the case. Tsokos, at least, is pretty sure of his cause to look back and uncover previously overlooked facts in the Whitney Houston drama on February 11, 2011 at the Beverly Hills Hilton.
As we now know, Houston was heavily addicted to drugs. In the end she didn’t play any more concerts, her magnificent voice was more than just damaged. When police arrived, her body was lying face down in the lukewarm water. Alleged cause of death: drowning. LAPD officers rushed to close the case. Cause of death: accidental death.
Michael Tsokos: “In the 30 years that I’ve been doing forensic medicine, I’ve never come across a corpse found face down in a bathtub filled with water.” He refers to the CDU politician Uwe Barschel, who died under strange circumstances in 1987 Geneva hotel has been found lifeless in a bathtub. At that time, a reporter from “Stern” was faster than the authorities at the scene of the crime – and took what is now an iconic black and white photo.
The documentary shows how the team from Germany, sometimes with resistance from official bodies, rummaged through documents and checked witness statements. A real crime story that can quickly drift towards conspiracy theory. “This topic should obviously disappear from memory,” Liefers can be heard whispering in a documentary scene.
Ultimately, there is a massive suspicion in the room – and here we spoil a little: that Whitney’s death was not a natural death. Is there possibly a mysterious stranger(s) in this case?