On December 28, 1984, five-month-old Felix Tschök disappears without a trace from a stroller in front of the Centrum department store in Dresden. The GDR launches one of the largest manhunts in its history—without success. A week later, another baby turns up: bound, with medical scars, and responsive to the Russian language. Investigators, the Stasi, and the family suspect that Felix was “swapped” for another child—a serious suspicion with political consequences.
Almost forty years later, an extraordinary search for clues begins. The three-part documentary series accompanies the family on their emotional and investigative journey through archives, secret service files, and international connections. In a year and a half of extensive research – supported by funding from nordmedia and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg – the case was reopened.
With state-of-the-art AI-supported forensics, international DNA databases, and cold case expertise, a family full of hope embarks on a search for their son – also in cooperation with Charité Berlin and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Find out what the forensic genetics analysis of the evidence at Labor Berlin revealed in the documentary “Findet Felix – Das gestohlene Baby” (Find Felix – The Stolen Baby), available in the ARD media library.
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