Sun, Feb 28, 2016
Murder in a villa district: Klaus Hartmann is stabbed to death in broad daylight in his own kitchen while his wife Carmen is waiting for him in the car with the engine running. At the same time, daughter Laura and her boyfriend Adrian Tarrach disappear without a trace. The young man with the flawless demeanor was making lofty plans for the future of the couple. But now the forensics have found his fingerprints on the crime tool. Inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk immediately get a clue about Adrian's past with drug possession and car theft. His home doesn't fit in with the chic residential area in which his girlfriend grew up either: he lives with his mother Pia in a suburb of Cologne. But Adrian and Laura didn't get in touch here either. Even Adrian's buddies and Laura's classmates don't want to have heard from the two. But Laura's big party for her 18th birthday was just around the corner.
Sun, Mar 6, 2016
The world of German folk music is in turmoil. During the rehearsals to the show "Hier spielt die Musik" one of the local stars Toni Derlinger of the musical duo "Toni & Tina" is found beaten to death behind the set. His wife and partner Tina is desperate, his manager Rollo behaves as if he'd lost a son. It's difficult to imagine a brutal murder within the last bastion of the idyllic world of German folk music. Was it a disappointed fan who felt rejected? Or was it about money? "Toni & Tina" are no longer as popular as they once were with the new, successful genre of pop folk music mercilessly moving in, epitomized the folk-rock'n'roller boyband "Herzensbrecher". The inspectors from Dresden Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland delve deeper into this strange world of perfect image cultivation. And as they do it becomes less and less clear who benefits most from the death of the former folk star Toni. Simultaneously their young colleague Maria Mohr, a police academy student, finds the crucial tip-off and puts herself in grave danger by following her gut...
Sun, Apr 24, 2016
The remains of employee Roy Weischlitz are found in the blast furnace slag of a steel mill in the tranquil city of Weimar where he worked. Inspectors Kira Dorn and Lessing quickly rule out suicide as the cause of death. Roy lived together with his sister Siegrid, who, as is established by the inspectors, hated her brother. Siegrid holds Roy responsible for the destruction of her life's happiness with her ex-fiancée Karsten aka Flamingo. It was Roy's fault that Karsten lost a leg and earned his nickname. Flamingo works at the mill and becomes a suspect, as well as his shady buddy Karsten, who has a criminal record of his own. When the inspectors learn that Franks girlfriend Irina lead Roy to believe he was the love of her life in order to get to his money, the events quickly pile up.
Sun, May 8, 2016
Forest workers discover the skeleton of a woman in the forest, which must have been there for a few years. According to the autopsy, the dead is the dancer Dumbrowa, who disappeared without a trace two years ago and is now identified by a conspicuous bone formation on her foot. Thiel determined while Boerne danced in the dance school.
Sun, May 22, 2016
In the bone collection at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, a young doctoral student discovers a skull that does not match the rest of the skeleton with which it was sorted. The skull is significantly younger than stated in the mortuary papers. That same morning, twenty-year-old Steffi wants to complain to her mother that she didn't wake her up. But Andrea Schwinn lies strangled in the dining room of the inn that the family has run for generations. The father, Holger Schwinn, cannot be found. One of his hunting weapons is missing. While chief inspector Felix Voss and his colleagues, chief inspector Paula Ringelhahn, inspectors Wanda Goldwasser, Sebastian Fleischer and the head of forensics, Michael Schatz, are investigating in the inn, an elderly woman pitches a small tent on Jakobsplatz directly in front of the Nuremberg police headquarters because she does not want to put up with the fact that the police refuse to take action in the case of her missing adult son. Professor Mittlich, the head of the Anatomical Institute, seeks advice from Police President Dr. Kaiser, whom she knows privately. Should she cover up the discovery of the unknown skull? Kaiser is strictly against it. His homicide squad will be investigating undercover at the institute. But is it actually a homicide? Is the husband the killer? Meanwhile, the innkeeper Schwinn becomes the focus of the investigation. Felix Voss suspects that he has holed up in the huge forest near the inn. At night he goes there and calls for him. He doesn't find the fleeting Schwinn, but in the dining room he immerses himself in the silent witnesses of a family tragedy that has been brewing for years. In this house everyone seems to have been 'too alone'. The investigations in the Anatomical Institute confront Voss, Ringelhahn and Goldwasser with the inevitability of death beyond homicide. Paula learns that the man's heart weighs heavier than the woman's, while Wanda falls in love with the graduate student who started it all rolling. What remains of us after death? How does the daily handling of corpses change employees? And what is a little girl in red rubber boots doing in this environment? The older woman, who has now been camping in front of the police headquarters for 48 hours, raises completely different questions. Chief of Police Kaiser wants to clear the tent, but Voss and Ringelhahn are against it. Is there a right to worry? Who doesn't long for the opposite of loneliness? The events in the Anatomical Institute ultimately demanded a high degree of power of deduction, intuition and interrogation skills from Voss, Ringelhahn and their team. Because the skull belongs to a human who was killed in an almost perfect way. But only almost perfect.
Sun, Sep 4, 2016
In a suburb of Vienna, the police made a gruesome body find: the victim, a Turkish businessman, had his tongue and both hands cut off while he was still alive. Outwardly, he was the owner of a kebab restaurant. For Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner, it quickly became clear that they were dealing with a power struggle in the organized crime environment. The dead man's apartment shows all the characteristics of an illegal brothel and the kebab shop apparently served as a money laundering facility. Through Daniela Vopelka from the Organized Crime Department, Eisner met the young Ukrainian Victoria Oshchypko, who was forced into prostitution in the victim's house. The officers learned from her that the deceased belonged to a highly professional human trafficking ring that illegally brings refugees to Austria in order to exploit them as work slaves or prostitutes. During their research, the investigators meet an old friend of Fellner's from her time with the custom, the cocky pimp Andy Mittermeier. He knew the murdered man and now seems to want to take over his territory. When Eisner tries to increase the pressure on Mittermeier, he brutally makes it clear that he won't let anyone or anything stop him.
Sun, Oct 2, 2016
Good people die too. The popular social businessman Hans-Martin Taubert falls from a bridge and survives badly injured. The inspectors from Dresden Henni Sieland and Karin Gorniak meet three homeless witnesses who claim that Taubert was thrown off the bridge. Taubert founded the "Berberhilfe", a business that finds shelter for the homeless and other people in need. He became rich through the poor and has never concealed this fact. The three homeless witnesses claim to be Tauberts "Security"; apparently he's been frequently threatened recently. Taubert's brother Hajo becomes interesting for the inspectors as well: a lot less business-minded than his brother, Hajo borrowed money from Taubert for some shady enterprises. Regardless of brotherly love, Taubert wanted his money back. Shortly thereafter Taubert is attacked in the hospital - this time with deadly outcome.