Mon, Jan 1, 2018
Chief Detective Jens Stellbrink has faced a particularly tricky case. And literally. Because an autopiloted vehicle sped from the parking deck of a company and in the car is now the corpse of the company's legal officer. At first everything looks like suicide. But then Stellbrink learns that the company's computers, which specialize in collecting digital data, were hacked that same night and that the missing data concerns the self-driving car.
Sun, Jan 14, 2018
Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner face an absolute professional in the face of a mysterious series of murders. First the masked killer kills a tattooed Serb, then the inconspicuous Georgian employee of a large nursery and finally a young mother. Each time the perpetrator leaves no traces, but a shocking staging: He spectacularly displays the violated corpses in places where so many people are on the move that the police cannot find any usable DNA traces. Ritual murders, sexual crimes or even a secret service killer squad - Fellner and Eisner have to investigate in all directions. Even with the victims, who all lived under a false identity in Vienna, there is no clarity. When the investigators come across a mutual acquaintance of the victims, the university professor Nenad Ljubic, who specializes in Eastern European civil rights movements, the case finally moves. The ice-cold killer can also expect a surprise in the game of confusion: he has been mistakenly mistaken, which endangers his perfectly camouflaged action. Meanwhile, Eisner and Fellner come across a lead, the scope of which soon amazes them.
Sun, Jan 28, 2018
Midsummer in Dresden. Nine-year-old Rico Krüger disappears without a trace while playing in the park. The next day, young people find a bag with the body of the child on the banks of the Elbe. The autopsy shows that the boy drowned - but not in the Elbe, but probably in a bathtub; He was also sexually abused. The Dresden investigators Henni Sieland (Alwara Höfels) and Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) suspect the concealment act of a pedophile offender. They are under great pressure - politicians, the media and the public demand rapid investigation results. Despite hundreds of indications from the population there is no concrete trace and the DNA of the offender, which could be secured on the bag, may not be evaluated due to legal provisions to determine phenotypic characteristics of the offender. Kommissariatsleiter Schnabel (Martin Brambach) quarrels with data protection regulations and staff shortages and delivers verbal skirmishes with media representatives. He is personally affected and upset because he is burdened by the disappearance of another boy three years ago, which he has not been able to solve until now. A note from the school board leads to the suspicion of Ricos swimming coach (Niels Bruno Schmidt), who was friends with the family of the victim. The former teacher trainee had previously entered into a short homosexual love affair with a sixteen-year-old student, after which he was dismissed from school. In the heated mood, the unjustly accused man is convicted in the media and subsequently assaulted and seriously injured, as is Commissioner Sieland, who tries to protect the man from one of the attackers (Rico's stepfather). She is hospitalized with rib fractions and hospitalized. While the investigators grope in the dark, Ricos killer (Benjamin Lillie), an installer of public utilities, wrestles with his pathological inclination. He approaches another prepubescent boy, but spares the child first. His girlfriend (Alice Dwyer) knows her partner's dangerous bias, but he wants to believe that he can suppress and control his pedophile predisposition. She even tries to protect her boyfriend from the investigative authorities - she works at the school's office and is responsible for pointing out at the swimming coach. Finally, Henni Sieland, working through the file of the previous missing boy case again in the hospital, finds a connection between the two cases: at the homes of both affected families, water meters were exchanged shortly before the disappearance of the children. Meanwhile, Ricos murderer has lured another boy into his apartment and already stunned with a sleeping drug, but is caught and confronted by his suspicious girlfriend. When only minutes later the investigators knock at the door, the offender sees no way out and commits suicide by jumping out the window. The unconscious boy can be saved. Finally, password-protected photo files are discovered on the perpetrator's mobile phone, leading the investigators to a lake where they find the body of the boy who disappeared three years ago. In the final scene of the film, the investigators deliver the terrible news to the parents of the missing child.
Mon, Apr 2, 2018
When a blood-soaked teenage-sized hoodie is found in a collection of used clothes, Ellen Berlinger and her colleague Martin Rascher are alerted. For Martin, the find is a bad signal. For years, an unsolved series of murders against young people has weighed heavily on his mind. Now he is convinced that another teenager has been killed. In Ellen's eyes, this is just one of the possible explanations. But she too is worried. Because the sweater could belong to Jonas, the son of her cousin Maja. Ellen had herself transferred to Mainz because Maja is helping her to look after her little daughter Greta. The Commissioner has developed a special bond with the reserved Jonas. The 13-year-old was supposed to be on an outing with friends after the school festival the night before, but Ellen can't get in touch with him there. Jonas' parents aren't worried yet - unlike those of 16-year-old Marie Blixen. Marie was also at the school festival, but never returned from there. The wealthy parents fear kidnapping to extort ransom from them. The hoodie, on the other hand, they claim, does not come from Marie. But who can say for sure about the widespread gray sweaters? The interrogations of Marie's classmates over the evening of the school party don't do much, not even Max, with whom Marie had flirted, has anything to say. Then a ransom demand is actually received. An attempt is made to hand over the money - but Marie is already dead, slain and left behind on a deserted site. There are traces of the hoodie on the corpse. Ellen begins to fear that Jonas is involved in the case .
Sun, Apr 15, 2018
Two bodies are found in a run-down house on the outskirts of Nuremberg. A 58-year-old Libyan man and his sister were both brutally beaten to death with a rebar. They came to Germany 15 years ago, were fully integrated and have been lying in their decomposed blood for days. The brutality of the act is staggering. Ahmad, the victim's adored and gifted foster son, has disappeared. Was he perhaps a witness? Or perpetrator? The pressure mounts quickly, the public demands quick explanations. Felix Voss and Paula Ringelhahn lead the exhausting investigation. But what are they dealing with? Family tragedy, robbery, murder, a bloody act? Investigations in the right-wing scene remain without reference. Shortly thereafter, a colleague from the fraud department dies unexpectedly while driving in the car from a fatal drug interaction. He leaves his wife and two children behind. For Paula, this news is a disaster. The dead man, Frank Leitner, was a very close friend. Shortly before the double murder he had tried in vain to reach her. A piece of evidence found at the crime scene links the murder of the two siblings and their dead colleagues. But what does Frank Leitner have to do with the horrible act? Why did he die shortly afterwards? A case that pushes Paula Ringelhahn to her limits and which she would not have been able to handle without her colleague Voss.
Sun, May 13, 2018
The Böttger family runs a farm in the Black Forest, with great commitment, close to nature and connected to farming traditions. When the eldest daughter Sonnhild suddenly dies, Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg investigate the death. Friedemann has known Volkmar Böttger since school and is impressed by how enthusiastic and principled his childhood friend manages his large family and the farm. Because the coroner did not confirm a suspicion of incorrect diabetes treatment against the Böttgers doctor, Friedemann Berg is relieved that the family can mourn in peace. Franziska Tobler, however, considers the doctor's statements to be protective claims and has other clues to keep the investigation going. The behavior of Torsten Schmidt, for example, Sonnhild's fiancé who lives on the farm. He and his younger sister Mechthild react conspicuously evasively to questions about Sonnhild's life and her illness. In general, Franziska seems strange about the life of the Böttgers, which is completely focused on the farm and the community. Friedemann, on the other hand, comes from a Black Forest farm himself and can better understand the commitment to small-scale agriculture and the fervor with which Volkmar Böttger talks about it. Especially since Volkmar welcomes him with open arms and wants to revive the previous friendship. When Franziska finds out that Torsten Schmidt belongs to a homeland security team, Friedemann also takes a closer look and the inspectors discover not only inconsistencies in the statements about Sonnhild's last months and her death, but also the Böttgers' attitudes, which are strongly reminiscent of the attitudes of ethnic settlers. Volkmar's commitment to Torsten now appears in a completely different light.
Mon, May 21, 2018
In a forum they incited each other to hunt "Birdy" in order to get revenge on her. The investigations show, however, that Doro had long since logged out of the portal. The operator of "Love Tender" used your photos for a false profile and financially excluded its customers. No usable traces were found at the crime scene, but Sieland and Gorniak are able to narrow down their search to two murder suspects after intensive questioning. One of them is Petrick Wenzel, who takes care of his terminally ill mother and hopes for great love. The second suspect is the young entrepreneur Andreas Koch. He was also near the crime scene on the night of the murder. The life of a witness who witnessed the murder on the phone is in danger. In order to move the investigation forward quickly, Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland decide to go on an undercover mission against the wishes of their chief police officer, Schnabel. In search of the murderer, the commissioners immerse themselves in the world of online dating, in which potential perpetrators and victims are in search of great love. The investigators initially have no idea that their situation will soon escalate.
Sun, Jun 3, 2018
"The two of us on the other side of the S-Bahn. When was that before me?" asks Leitmayr Batic when he hesitates to undertake the six-hour joint drive there and back to Traitach. The trace in the case of Florian Berg, who was found dead, leads to what feels like nowhere, a run-down place in the Lower Bavarian border area, where a group of people live together on an old farm who have renounced the Federal Republic and declared their country their own national territory. Under their leader Ludwig Schneider, the "Freiländer" run a call center where every German who has trouble with the authorities of "the so-called Federal Republic" receives expert advice and support. The free countries include the single parent Lene with her blind daughter Maria, Roland, Klaus, and Gustl with his sons Luis and Max. Florian, who was dead, was also part of the free countries. He was responsible for the bookkeeping until he fell out violently with Ludwig and went back to his mother in Munich. She soon found the son in the bathtub with his wrists cut open. The murder weapon was not found. The mother accuses Ludwig and his people. But if Florian was in the way of the free countries and they wanted to make a murder look like suicide, why was the murder weapon not appropriately deposited at the crime scene? The investigation leads Batic and Leitmayr out of Munich, in the middle of a network of strange dependencies and alliances. You meet Ludwig and his people, but the interrogations do not reveal anything. You are not advancing an inch. Actually, they wanted to go back on the same day, but then they stay - as the only guests in the Traitach inn "Zum alten Eber", where it hangs stuffed on the wall. In the past, says the inn owner Alois, the boar ate the naughty children in the village. First the feet, so that they couldn't run away, and then the rest. From his hunter's stand, he observes the goings-on in the open every day like a strange circus. He and Ludwig Schneider have a business relationship and a secret that he does not tell the inspectors either. At the end of the day, Batic and Leitmayr end up half-starved at a small gas station that still has sausage from the machine. The next day doesn't get her any further either. The imposing fence with which the open-air areas shield themselves also exists in the minds. The police status of the investigators from Munich does not count. The responsible public prosecutor has long since resigned and the head of the Traitach police station in Mooser refers to the mountains of files already accumulated on charges of trespassing, insulting officials, driving with wrong license plates and various administrative complaints as well as forgery of documents. He doesn't want any more trouble. Better to stay out of the way and eat his lunchtime roast pork in the "Alten Eber". In the resolution of this case, Batic and Leitmayr find themselves in the truest sense of the word alone.
Sun, Sep 16, 2018
The new Berlin "crime scene" with Rubin and Karow deals with two cases in parallel - everyday police work not only in the capital: the investigators are called to crime scenes in the city and on the outskirts in quick succession. In the middle of the Kurfürstendamm, Tom Menke, operator of the "Robista" coffee shop, lies dead in his kiosk. The robot, which is serving and selling coffee instead of a human, stands still. A young woman is out and about in Grunewald who wants to blog about the first green in the still wintry nature. To her horror, she discovers a lifeless jogger. Forensic doctor Nasrin Reza finds wild boar hair in the victim's large wound. Nina Rubin takes over the investigation into the case of the dead Carolina Gröning, while Karow is concentrating on the Tom Menke case. He must have died servicing his barista robot. Was that an accident? Kathrin Menke seems strangely untouched by the death of her husband, she is more interested in her cats. An old man also attracts Karow's attention: Albert can see exactly the crime scene from his window. But are the stories he tells true? Finally, in both cases, the victims' marriages come into focus. Because even with Reno Gröning and his wife Carolina there was tension, a great loss overshadowed the relationship.
Sun, Oct 28, 2018
An emergency call is received by the Bremen police, calls for help can be heard. A short time later, the body of a young woman is found in a park. The massive injuries to the neck of the dead pose a particular mystery to Bremen's chief inspectors Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund. A traumatized eyewitness can only give the investigators the disturbing clue "vampire". While Inga Lürsen is putting the clues and clues together step by step, Stedefreund gets caught up in a feverish whirlpool of mystical superstition. When the investigators meet Nora Harding and her father Wolf Harding, events roll over.
Sun, Dec 2, 2018
In a Munich villa, the parents of a little girl are murdered in a particularly brutal way. Little Lena survived the massacre. She was drugged. Batic and Leitmayr find them sleeping in their floating tent in the garden. The Chinese au pair Chi Ling danced the night away. She tells the commissioners that before the murder, Lena spoke of a Santa Claus who would be coming the next night. And indeed a surveillance camera shows Santa Claus in the garden at night. But how did the man get into the house? Did Lena open the door for him? And what role does Lena's smart doll Senta play in this?
Sun, Dec 9, 2018
Dr. Steinfeld is found slain in his practice. The renowned psychiatrist specialized in war trauma; his patients include civilian victims of armed conflicts as well as traumatized military personnel from the US Air Base in Ramstein. People with different experiences of violence, one of whom may have turned against his therapist. Heather Miller, for example, who was used as a "screener" in the drone war and is now an orderly officer in Germany because she suffered from depression. Above all, however, the case of Mirhat Rojan attracts Lena Odenthal's attention: The Kurd lost his two children in an American drone attack in Iraq, now lives with his brother in Ludwigshafen and is known to the police because he wanted to draw attention to his fate with public actions. The Rojans have disappeared from the scene, but the more Lena and Johanna deal with the two of them, the more concrete the suspicion that they are planning a drone attack grows: an assassination attempt on Jason O'Connor, Secretary of State at the US Department of Defense, who is currently in Germany is expected.
Wed, Dec 26, 2018
Janneke and Brix are called to a crime scene at night. A young woman, scantily clad, with a plastic bag pulled over her head, lies dead at the feet of one of Frankfurt's bank towers. While Janneke arrives early at the secured and cleared crime scene, Brix is late. The KTU is also not there yet. Janneke goes alone into the tower and gets a first impression of the crime scene, takes photos, as is so often the case. Suddenly she hears footsteps behind her. She instinctively reaches for her camera. A couple of times a flashlight illuminates the scene, then a blow. When Brix finally arrives, he finds Janneke unconscious in the elevator. She is taken to hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Brix goes to work alone and quickly reaches the limits of the hermetically sealed tower. When Janneke regains consciousness in the hospital, she can only vaguely remember. She is also under strong medication and no longer trusts her own head. Only her photos give her something to hold onto in her extremely foggy memories. The perpetrator himself cannot really be recognized in any of the pictures, only sections, blurry details, overexposed fragments. Together, Brix and Janneke try to put together a clear picture of the crime from the contradicting scraps of memory, the photos and witness statements. All threads come together in the tower. The commissioners have to gain access again.