Sun, Jan 15, 2023
In Dortmund's Westpark, Pawlak and Herzog are standing in front of a large pool of blood, but there is no body. However, Richter, the head of a Dortmund real estate company, is missing. With his business model he has made a number of opponents in Dortmund in recent years. He buys real estate and transforms shared apartments into coveted luxury objects.
Sun, Jan 29, 2023
Saturday. Gameday. A Saar-Palatinate football derby keeps all the emergency services in Saarbrücken in suspense, including the chief inspectors Leo Holz, Adam Schürk, Esther Baumann and Pia Heinrich. Because after the game, a death is reported from the emergency room. Andreas Schneider collapsed in the emergency room with skull fractures and a stab wound and could not be saved. It quickly turns out that he spent the "third half" in a field match. But whether he also suffered the fatal injuries there remains unclear for the time being. As hostile as the hooligan groups are, they all agree that the biggest and common enemy is the police. Therefore, they confront the Saarbrücken team with silence and clarify their fights among themselves. Adam Schürk also conceals certain truths. However, when he is mugged at home because someone is looking for the millions from his father's bank robbery, he has to let Leo Bäumer know.
Sun, Feb 26, 2023
Young, popular and extremely successful: Marlon Unger is the hotshot of an IT company. One evening he is attacked and stabbed in front of his apartment. While Moritz Eisner, Bibi Fellner and Meret Shame begin to investigate the case, the picture they get of the victim changes several times. Was he popular now? Or not? An unscrupulous guy or someone with a conscience? One who would win hearts, or one who didn't give a damn if he made enemies? In any case, the case is becoming increasingly opaque and depressing. Because when the circle of suspects finally gets smaller, another crime happens that puts the investigators under pressure and faces dramatic decisions... In their new case, Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner have to deal with the murder of a young, extremely successful IT employee who is difficult to picture. At first glance Everybody's darling, clues and insights emerge in the course of the investigation, which not only put Eisner and Fellner, but above all their colleague Meret Shame, before a great test.
Sun, Mar 26, 2023
Almost all of Alt-Bützenich is deserted and barricaded. At night, a security service checks that everything is in order. It was decided that the houses and the church would have to give way to opencast mining. Then climate change will bring new hope: the old village can stay. But the once sworn village community has long since lost itself with the move to Neu-Bützenich. as dr Christian Franzen, the local doctor, is informed that his vacant house has been broken into, he sets off immediately - but does not return home. His wife Betje goes to the police, who find her husband shot dead in the old village. Even though everyone here was a patient of the doctor, he was not particularly popular. During their investigations, detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk uncover a divided community. Time cannot simply be turned back here in the lignite mining area. While Schenk always drives to Cologne after work, Ballauf makes friends with the former innkeeper Karin Bongartz, who tells him a lot about the old village and the now radically changed life in the countryside near Cologne.
Sun, Apr 9, 2023
Robert Karow is called to a crime scene. Everything indicates that the young security police officer Rebecca Kästner took her own life in her apartment the night before: drugs, custody dispute, excessive demands. But when Karow finds her four-year-old son Matti in the garden, he has doubts about the suicide. What mother does that in front of her child? Then the last call from the dead to an unusual number: Susanne Bonard, a former LKA great who now teaches at the police academy. She is a luminary whose standard work everyone knows. Before Karow knows it, she is at his side for the investigation in this case. Back on the road again at 62? Bonard was in the process of uncovering right-wing tendencies at her academy, no longer wanted to put up with her director's decreed muzzle and would take action against the dubious teaching methods of her colleague Götz Lennart. During the investigation into Rebecca's death, the detectives also found connections to the right-wing scene, which Bonard quickly suspected was a large right-wing network. Karow thinks that's paranoid. Until he and her have to realize that they are actually confronted with a larger context than initially thought.
Sun, Apr 16, 2023
When his 17-year-old son Noah disappears, Jon Makoni turns to the police in desperation, even though it could be dangerous for him and his wife Hope to be targeted by the authorities, even though the Makonis have been living and working in Hanover for years , they have no papers and are therefore practically non-existent. The investigators Falke and Grosz first lead the search for a smuggling network to Hanover. An unknown body is found in a truck. Jon offers himself as a witness in the hopes that investigators will help him find his son. In order to clarify the identity of the dead man and to save the missing Noah from a similar fate, Falke and Grosz penetrate deep into Hanover's informal economy.
Sun, Apr 23, 2023
When Peter Faber joins Jan Pawlak and Rosa Herzog in the early morning, the forensics team is almost done with their work. Tram driver Hamza Arkadas was stabbed while working the night shift. There are no witnesses, but the images from the surveillance camera show how Arkadas was first provoked and then attacked by a young passenger. The perpetrator pointed his face aggressively at the camera before fleeing, but the recordings are of little help at first. He does not seem to be known to the police, and prosecutor Matuschek does not want to go public with the pictures yet. Rosa Herzog, who took over the acting management of the homicide squad in Faber's absence, gets support from police officer Beate Gräske. She is a "super-recognizer" with the special ability to recognize faces - much better than her colleagues and the technology can do. With the help of surveillance cameras, she sets out to track down the perpetrator.
Sun, May 7, 2023
A passer-by is pushed in front of a moving truck on the Kiel Fjord: an outbreak of violence out of nowhere. Inspector Borowski asks around at a nearby vocational school. A little later, the chief inspector ends up in the intensive care unit with a serious head injury. Mila Sahin is of great concern. Why wasn't she with him when her colleague needed her? She suspects a connection between the senseless act and the attack on Borowski. And then there are these strange calls that reach the chief inspector on his sickbed: a girl named Finja claims to have been kidnapped by her sister Celina. Celina Lübbert is one of the girls Borowski interrogated at the vocational school. When Mila Sahin finds Celina's grandmother stabbed shortly afterwards, the question arises: How dangerous is the girl? Is Celina also responsible for the attack on Borowski? Will she harm her little sister Finja? While Borowski investigates from the hospital bed and tries to gain Celina's trust, Mila searches for the girls: a race against time.
Sun, May 14, 2023
Miriam Schenk and Paul Wolf, with their almost adult children Zoé and Benno, were a well-functioning blended family for many years. The fact that there are cracks only becomes apparent when Benno's best friend Christopher is killed and inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg also investigate those close to the Schenk-Wolf family. Chris, they find out, was involved in the Freiburg drug scene and it seems likely that his death had something to do with it. What did his close friend Benno know about it? After all, the two wanted to raise the money for a trip around the world. And Zoé was also out and about with the two of them more than their parents ever realized. Miriam and Paul's trust in their children and in each other is crumbling, while Tobler and Berg gather more and more evidence of the step-siblings' involvement in dubious and increasingly dangerous financial transactions.
Mon, May 29, 2023
A young woman becomes the key in a case of organized crime: Azra has been working as an informant for the police for some time and, as an informant in the department for white-collar crime, is supposed to collect clues in the environment of the Datviani clan, which has grown dangerously. But then a murder occurs: the boss's brother is shot dead in front of one of his clubs, and the BKA begins investigating. When Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner arrive at the scene of the crime, it is difficult to foresee what could happen to them: an internal feud among the clan members or even a larger gang war? In any case, the people of Datviani keep their mouths shut, despite promised cooperation with the police, and the usual investigative methods only deliver disappointing results. However, when the investigators manage to get in touch with the informant Azra, the tide turns: after all, nobody gets as close to the suspects as she does. But even if the project sounds promising, it is highly risky and a real game with fire for both Eisner and Fellner as well as for Azra - which comes true at the latest when contact with her breaks off after an action and Azra can no longer be found.
Sun, Jun 18, 2023
Finally, there is some progress for the Stuttgart detectives in their current, dragging-on case of alleged drug trafficking resulting in death. At least that's what the message that Sebastian Bootz received from his colleague Thorsten Lannert seems to mean. The only trouble is that when Bootz finds his colleague, he's in a really good mood, but mentally far away from police work. Apparently someone gave him a hallucinogenic substance that doesn't help his concentration or memory. All that's left besides hilarity is the vague memory of an important deal that same night... Sebastian Bootz has a hard time putting the sparse clues together and tracking down the suspects. Especially since the support effort for the eager but not very goal-oriented Thorsten Lannert is high and the extraordinary potential for danger must not be ignored.
Sun, Sep 3, 2023
Inspectors Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern investigate the mysterious disappearance of young Boris Wolter, the branch manager at a bank who privately has a passion for medieval jousting. The trail leads to the tranquil Palatinate wine town of Deidesheim and to a breathtaking find that not only fascinates Johanna Stern: the coins found in the trunk of the missing person are centuries-old, valuable pieces of gold, apparently from that time of the Nibelungs. What initially seemed completely improbable becomes a certainty thanks to the expertise of Albert Dürr, the director of the Nibelungen Museum in Worms: the legend of the mystical gold sunk by Hagen in the Rhine is being brought to life again. The two investigators become hunters for the lost treasure, at the latest when a second corpse appears, in whose blood forensic scientist Becker secures another coin. A coin from the treasure of the Nibelungen.
Sun, Sep 10, 2023
Am Rande eines Waldgebietes fahren nachts zwei Autos über einen Feldweg. Darin Brix (Wolfram Koch) und weitere Polizeibeamte. Außerdem ein Verdächtiger, Anton Schilling (Niels Bormann), der kurz zuvor zur Polizei gekommen ist und berichtet hat, dass der Polizist Simon Laby (Sebastian Klein) erschossen und dann am Waldrand vergraben wurde. Die Suche verläuft schwierig. Schilling kann sich nicht mehr erinnern, wo die Stelle genau liegt. Es ist dunkel, er hat getrunken. Auch scheint er Angst zu haben. Als man schließlich das Waldhaus Labys durchsucht und dort große Mengen an Essensvorräten, Waffen, Munition und ein falsches Polizeiauto entdeckt, bekommt der Fall eine ganz neue Dimension. Ein alter Bekannter von Brix scheint in die Sache verstrickt zu sein. Brix kann oder will das zuerst nicht recht glauben. Janneke (Margarita Broich) aber vermutet schon bald, dass es bei der Suche in dieser einen Nacht nicht nur um einen Toten geht.
Sun, Oct 15, 2023
Max Winkler, head of a pig farm, lies dead on the floor in the stable. Two Schoberhof employees find the body and notify the authorities. When Moritz and Bibi arrive at the crime scene, two Romanian cousins behave suspiciously, but don't seem to be the perpetrators. And just as the forensic investigators had begun to systematically search the stable, the automatic stable cleaning suddenly started and destroyed the few remaining traces. Little is known about the victim either: Max Winkler wanted to expand and become the big player in pig breeding in Austria. However, he was unsuccessful because the project of a feed factory, which he wanted to have built in Bulgaria with the support of the EU and in cooperation with an agricultural multinational operating from Vienna, had failed. The investigators targeted an animal protection NGO that repeatedly carried out acts of protest and sabotage at the Schoberhof. But then new movement comes into the case: Supported by an official from the European Anti-Fraud Authority and a lawyer from the European Public Prosecutor's Office, Moritz and Bibi get to the bottom of Winkler's international business entanglements. Aid fraud is likely to have been carried out on a large scale - and there was an anonymous complaint against the Bulgarian company a few weeks ago, which seems to indicate precise insider knowledge at Schoberhof.
Sun, Oct 29, 2023
There was an attempted murder at the summit meeting of Bavarian product queens: the president of the Bavaria Association was attacked with a captive bolt gun and has been in intensive care ever since. Batic and Leitmayr discover that the victim exploited his position for sexual assault: no queen was safe from his harassment. So everyone had a motive to get back at him - including the organizer of Queen's Day. The investigators immerse themselves in the supposedly perfect world of the vegetable monarchy and investigate among hay bales, tractors and white and blue pennants; between asparagus, honey and white sausage queens from Aschaffenburg to Berchtesgaden. Fortunately, they receive support in their investigation: The Nördlingen Onion Queen is a police student in her civil life.
Sun, Nov 19, 2023
The man whose body washed up in the Neckar was seriously ill and clearly drowned. However, external influence cannot be ruled out and so Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin investigations. Wife, son, the craft business in a village, friends, Matthias Döbele's life is examined for suspects. The inspectors are irritated when they realize that forensic pathologist Daniel Vogt recognized the dead man as a childhood friend during the examination, without sharing this knowledge. Even more irritated when they get the impression that Vogt didn't examine the dead person thoroughly enough. The case seems to be causing lasting concern for her otherwise calm colleagues. Thorsten and Sebastian don't know that shortly before his death, Matthias Döbele had asked his childhood friend Daniel Vogt to call him back in vain. This omission leaves Vogt no peace. Instead of sharing his knowledge with the inspectors, he begins to investigate himself in his hometown.
Sun, Nov 26, 2023
A dead infant is found in a parking lot near Kiel. Where is the mother? Did she kill her child? An entry wristband they found leads Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin to the sleepy town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, where an inferno will descend in just a few days: when more than 80,000 guests arrive there to party at one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world . The first clue leads the detectives to the festival caterer Michi Berger, who apparently took the young mother with him. He maintains a secret relationship with the undertaker Meike. She is worried about her son Jan. The heavy metal fan was out the night the baby disappeared and made an observation. More and more fans are arriving at Wacken and destroying valuable traces.
Sun, Dec 3, 2023
Rushing through the city every day with hundreds of packages in the delivery van - in the run-up to Christmas it's pure stress for Milan Strasser. And anyone traveling for Sybille Jäger's shipping company should also wear a Santa Claus costume. As Milan is about to take packages out of the hold on his tour, a masked figure suddenly confronts him and threatens him with a knife. The young father of a family is murdered in the middle of a residential area. When Ballauf and Schenk arrive at the crime scene, almost all of the packages have been searched and emptied. Do you have to investigate a robbery-murder?
Sun, Dec 10, 2023
Inspector Thiel is faced with a challenge: instead of solving a murder, this time he has to prevent one. Meanwhile, Professor Boerne tries to be a patron, Silke Haller goes looking for clues with Mirko Schrader. The reason for all this is Stan Gold, a long-lost son of the city who has returned to his homeland from the Paraguayan jungle. Gold is not only now a star author, but also Münster's new city clerk - and a former classmate of Thiel's. Only back then his name was not Stan Gold, but simply Hotte Koslowski and he was otherwise rather mediocre. It is only thanks to the courageous intervention of Professor Boerne that he can enjoy his late triumph for more than a few hours. As soon as the new city clerk is elected, he almost dies of anaphylactic shock. And that's just the beginning of a whole series of dramatic events in which Stan Gold becomes involved.
Tue, Dec 26, 2023
When the sculptor Annette Baer finds her adult son Lucas with bloody hands in the bathroom of their shared apartment at night, she knows that something terrible has happened - even if Lucas claims to have done nothing. The next morning, inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are called to the body of young Cara Mauersberger. Cara came from the small Saxon town of Döbeln and had only moved to Frankfurt a few months ago. Leon Hamann, a property management employee, discovered the dead woman. The knife wounds in Cara's body indicate an emotional act, the smashed balcony door indicates a break-in. But Hamann, who has apparently been watching Cara closely, knows that the dead woman had an argument with her boyfriend the day before. So it doesn't take long until Janneke and Brix find a connection between Cara and Lucas Baer. Annette Baer manages to divert the focus of the police investigation from her son. Instead, the commissioners discover that Cara was a gamer in her free time and commented live on her games on a streaming platform under the pseudonym Chipmunk. The fact that she openly refused sexist depictions did not only earn her goodwill in the male-dominated scene. Her follower CancelChipmunk, who pursues an aggressive, ideologically colored agenda online, is targeted by the commissioners. Is Lucas, who like his mother very talented artistically, who wanted to develop a game design with Cara? Just as Janneke and Brix discover CancelChipmunk's identity, psychology student Denise is also found murdered.