What was Lars Mittank Running From?

On July 8th, 2014, airport security cameras in Varna, Bulgaria captured a young German man sprinting through a terminal in what looked like absolute terror. He climbed a barbed wire fence. He ran into a sunflower field. He left everything behind — passport, wallet, phone — and vanished completely.

His name was Lars Mittank. He was 28 years old. It was the first time he had ever left Germany.

Sixteen million people have watched that footage. Thousands have debated it. Nobody has solved it.

This week on Crime Clueless we go through the full story — the bar fight that started everything, the midnight phone calls Lars made to his mother whispering that men were going to kill him, the missing hour the night before that nobody has ever explained, and the single detail that puts a crack in the most widely accepted theory in the entire case.

We also sit with the question at the heart of all of it. Was Lars running from something his injured brain invented — or was he running because running was the only rational thing left to do?

Eleven years on, nobody knows.

What do you think happened? Let us know.

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