Coming up. They looked at this case, and the question on their minds was, was he complicit in murder?

Now, that could be argued from all different sides. What is complicity? Putting your hand on the trigger

or being present when somebody's killed. There's a difference there. For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

You're listening to The Daily Crime. Today on the Daily Crime, something a little different, a story out of Tennessee, and the

case of a 95-year-old man who was recently forced to leave his home and returned to his native

country, Germany.

For crimes, he's accused of committing decades earlier as a much younger man.

I'm joined by WBIR reporter and producer John North in Knoxville.

John, the man in question here, Friedrich Karl Berger, or Fritzberger, was actually living

in the United States for much of his adult life, right?

He lived here in East Tennessee for decades.

We surmised probably since the 1960s, lived very quietly.

Most people had no clue about his wartime background at all. He was just this kind of nice

German fellow who went about, from what we understand from the neighbors, went about his job. He

had a family, he had a

daughter, ultimately moved into a nice, quiet cul-de-sac in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and nobody

thought any differently until kind of out of nowhere about a year or two ago. The Fed suddenly

said, we want him out of the country. And they had good reason for that, according to the Department of Justice.

Tell us about what's been going on over the past year and where 95-year-old Carl Fritzberger is now

located.

He ended up here in the late 50s.

He had been, as a 19-year-old, a member of the German Navy, who was

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