Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany's six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, the book investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality. The artists have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstaging scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. Various actors who played victims and perpetrators in crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Locations that have served as a movie set for fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.