 In August 2015, Maja Maranow announced to be leaving the series to focus on other movies, but she died of breast cancer on 4 January 2016 at age 54, five days before the air date of the last episode in which she starred.In the following episode, Verena (her character in the series) was said to have emigrated to Australia, and was replaced by detective Linett Wachow (Stefanie Stappenbeck; as of episode 65 in 2016).In episode 56 (2013), the character Verena was out of town to follow advanced training, while in reality Maranow was undergoing chemotherapy and could not attend the shooting of this episode.