Crime scene: Limbus: The Münster crime thriller leaves this question mark

Even the latest Münster "Tatort: ​​Limbus" was bizarre as usual. Some questions about the Boerne and Thiel case remained open.

Professor Boerne and Inspector Thiel are in "Tatort: ​​Limbus" on unfamiliar territory. Admittedly: You first have to get involved in the mind game of Boerne, who is in limbo. But then it turns into an entertaining Münster thriller without the conventional slapstick. But some questions remain unanswered: What actually is limbo? And why is Nadezhda suddenly back?

What is the limbo?

As already discussed by Axel Prahl in his role as the devil's henchman and Jan Josef Liefers as "inmate", limbo is the theological term for limbo. If one believes the ancient Catholic emptiness, there are the souls of the dead who are excluded from heaven through no fault of their own; for example those of unbaptized children. The limbo was also popularly referred to as the "outermost circle of hell".

As Boerne explains in the film, limbo has no biblical foundation and is also classified in wide theological circles as merely speculation, hypothesis and theory. The invention of limbo dates back to the Middle Ages. In the world catechism of 1992, the current manual of the Catholic faith, you can no longer find the term limbo. Thus, it is not a valid doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Can you die from an insulin overdose?

Alberich barely escapes the assassination attempt with insulin because she administers glucose as an antidote (with the help of Boerne's ghost). Is that even realistic? Yes: There is a crazy story that accompanies insulin as a murder agent. The English nurse Kenneth Barlow is said to have claimed during a lecture on insulin in the mid-1950s that it could be used to commit the perfect murder. A few years later he was jailed for life for killing his wife Betty. This case is considered the first in the world in which a murder by insulin could be proven.

Again and again, nurses end up in court who have deliberately given their patients an overdose of insulin. It was not until the beginning of October 2020 that a Polish nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention in Munich. The competent court found it proven that he knowingly administered too much insulin to patients in need of care to kill them. He murdered at least three people this way.

Does the drug Curare really exist?

Under the name of Dr. Jacoby performing and murderous impostors injects his victims with insulin and a drug called curare. Boerne only survives because Thiel finds out that his poisoning is precisely this substance and that the doctors in the intensive care unit can administer appropriate antidotes. But does that really exist? Yes: Curare is actually a collective term for different substances that can be obtained from nuke nut species and moon seed plants.

The indigenous population of South America uses curare as an arrow poison when hunting and produces it from different extracts of bark and leaves of different types of lianas. In fact, individual subspecies of the poison were also used in anesthesia for many years and are still in use today. In the case of poisoning with curare, the substance physostigmine is administered, which occurs naturally in the seeds of the calabar bean and the fruits of the manchinel tree and quickly ends paralysis.

Why is Nadeshda there again?

The "Tatort: ​​Limbus" is now the final and official farewell to Nadeshda Krusenstern alias Friederike Kempter from the Münster crime novels. Thiel's former assistant actually died in the crossover edition "Tatort: ​​Das Team", which officially does not belong to the series of Münster crime scenes. In the experimental chamber play, which was created without a fixed script, the Dortmund team Bönisch and Faber actually determined together with other colleagues, including Krusenstern.

In the New Year's film from 2020, in which even the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet has a brief appearance, she is killed by a colleague. "You should stop when it's at its best," said Kempter, commenting on her own farewell back then. It was 17 very, very nice years and she really enjoyed every day of shooting. But now is the time for something new.

Did the doctor Dr. Jacoby a real role model?

Quite, if not in this drastically portrayed serial killer fashion. Unfortunately, medical impostors who have never graduated and still work as doctors in clinics are exposed again and again. The most famous German impostor in this context is probably the actual postman Gert Postel, who was employed in leading positions as a doctor between 1980 and 1995, without ever having attended university.

In France, the case of Jean-Claude Romand is still on everyone's lips. For years, the swindler feigned his position as one of the leading researchers in the field of arteriosclerosis (commonly known as vascular calcification). But he never completed his medical degree. When his fraud threatened to be exposed, he killed his wife, two children and his parents in 1993. Romand was in prison until the summer of 2019 and now lives in a Benedictine monastery in western France.

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