Dieter Bohlen sings his composition Silent Water (by Blue System) three times in this episode and can be seen as the blonde in the black golf, whom Schimanski initially suspects of being the perpetrator.
This episode was initially aired on Dec.28 1988, a Wednesday, typical the series was and still is initial broadcast on Sundays.
The allotment sites in which Moltke is hiding is located in Duisburg-Bruckhausen.
The first Tatort episode to win the Grimme Prize.