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Photo Gallery Death Casts Unwanted Light on Berlin Club

During an around-the-world trip last summer, a couple from California visited Berlin's legendary Berghain techno club. A few hours later, one of them was dead. Even today, no one seems willing to accept responsibility for the tragedy.
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Jennifer and Carlo at their wedding in 2013. The couple was in the process of taking a trip around the world when they arrived in Berlin, with the goal of spending a night at the city's famous Berghain techno club.

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The inside of Berghain, where photography is not allowed. The club is considered one of the city's most iconic institutions, and is often referred to as a "church" to techno. It is also one of Berlin's popular tourist attractions.

Foto: dpa Picture-Alliance / XAMAX/ picture alliance / dpa
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The exterior of Berghain. The club is known as much for its hedonistic party culture as for the culture of secrecy that surrounds it.

Foto: Paul Zinken/ picture alliance / dpa
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The cover of the police report on Jennifer's death. It reads "Suspects: 0, Injured parties: 1" In the wake of Jennifer's death, the investigators didn't seem particularly invested in discovering the circumstances surrounding her overdose, or the events that immediately followed from it.

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The final selfie sent by Carlo and Jennifer from the line to get into Berghain. Jennifer's Ecstacy pill was confiscated at the door, but Carlo was able to purchase another one from someone in the club's toilets.

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Carlo at the beach where he married Jennifer and later scattered her ashes. Today, he says he doesn't have any altruistic motives in getting to the bottom of what happened to Jennifer. He just wants her death to have some consequences.

Foto: Robert Gallagher/ DER SPIEGEL
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