Wed, Jan 3, 2018
Chief Jan Reuter is not amused that his arriving new detective, commissioner Karoline Joost, happens to be inside as client when the local bank is robbed at gun-point by a masked female, taking the public hostage and a female clerk. *Simultaneously Melanie Ernst urgently demands police help to search for his missing pupil niece Madita Ernst, whose mother Stefanie Ernst isn't found either. The branch manager arrives late from a trip but recognizes the robber ads a former employee. Lars links both cases.
Wed, Jan 10, 2018
Engineering professor Wolf Kessen made a fatal fall after a head-hit at his home, by someone with free entry. Student Maximilian Schacke's parents, engineers Thomas and Martine, harassed 'unfair' Kessen who needed to call campus security, while 'firm heir' Max hated his stifling parents' meddling but obeyed, forfeiting any social life or autonomy for a study he never chose. Academic assistant Dr. Eric Sommer did more then his duty, yet kept being passed over for promotion, let alone tenure. *Outsider Susa von Hohenstein visited married Kessen at home as a mistress would, but was actually invited for a job offer, which she refused in person, to visit kin.
Wed, Jan 17, 2018
Fortuneteller Viola Zankova is found fatally skull-smashed in her herbal garden. Neighbor Nico Ziegler has no alibi or income, Viola promised to pay him for building an online-portal but prepared to move back to her native Bulgaria. SOKO finds she and a research accomplice systematically spied on clients to scam money out of them, especially shortly after losing a loved-one. A regular to his son Roman's open frustration, widower Hermann Biber, fell in love with Viola and planned to move with her to a cottage he bought in Bulgaria.
Wed, Jan 24, 2018
Ronnie Becker, his wife Frau Jenny and their daughter Lotta disappear suddenly from their idyllic lake house, leaving behind car, phones and papers. Ronnie Becker is the first suspect, having hidden even from his wife to have lost all possessions, even the title to the house, but his corpse is found with the sunk boat, murdered, no suicide. Fearing for the missing, possibly surviving kin, the team looks on, notably with the apparently silent neighbors, Daniel Wittbusch and his wife and daughter who bonded with jenny viz. Lotta.
Wed, Jan 31, 2018
Retired, fit Markus Rotmann's cardiac arrest during a joint workout in the gym is reported as suspicious by his seniors bunch buddy Hans Güstrow. Autopsy reveals critical intoxication. Prime suspect is Rotmann's recently moved-in partner Tanja Wunder, the gym instructor. Tanja rather points at his adoptive stepson Thomas, who fails to hide how badly his struggling shrimp farm needed an 'advance on his inheritance'. Markus's recent testament made Tanja Wunder nearly sole heir.
Wed, Feb 7, 2018
Paramedic Gerd Runge drives off berserk in his ambulance when his pregnant daughter Lisa Schneider is found fatally wounded at her home, blaming her allegedly abusive husband Carsten Schneider who stalked her since she recently left him. While the police wonders about the baby's father, and finds Carsten has an alibi, Gerd shoots him. Lisa's employer Holger Martens made enemies by selling fake Chinese parts for his ailing firm's luxury yachts, including Lutz Ahlbeck who plans to charge Martens for his exploded motor, and two-timed his allegedly also pregnant secretary and lover Simone Konrad.
Wed, Feb 14, 2018
Economics (ex-law) student Marcel Jeske is reported missing by his lover and student home mate, archaeology student Vanessa Schuhmacher shortly before his water-affected corpse beaches up from the Ostsee. His last appointment the fatal evening was with dodgy antiquities dealer Benne Fahner who claims Marcel Jeske was only an occasional buyer. Marcel Jeske's car points the team to the Celtic settlement being dug up by Vanessa Schuhmacher's supervising professor and other lover Felix Kobluhn 's team, apparently robbed by Jeske, who actually has a police record suspected of overseas tomb robberies.
Wed, Feb 21, 2018
Sickly senior spouses Wilhelm and Rosa Kusche are found apparently suicide-shot in their villa. Chief Reuter takes the lead, being the only cop convinced it must be related to never-convicted Wilhelm Kusche's criminal GDR past, especially an unsolved murder presumed to involve slick lawyer Christof Teevs, whose offered help Jan waves as sabotage. Also suspect seems the couple's Afghanistan front-traumatized, silent orderly, Bernd Rabe, who recently lost another patient. Both adult children and heirs were estranged: son Reiko written off due to his drug dependency, yet claiming his father financed his gambling and - lounge, and his sister Clara Kusche who turned her back on the 'ruthless capitalists'.
Wed, Feb 28, 2018
Construction executive Falk Schöller's corpse is found on a garden deckchair, beaten to death, while phoning with colleague Max Vogthammer. It was his anniversary with Juliane Schöller, who denied he inflicted the hematomas on her, although an abuse complaint was filed against him, blaming a recent car crash. His colleague Tanja Hoffmann had a hopeless crush on Falk Schöller and a very jealous husband, who filed the complaint after loosing a fight.
Wed, Mar 7, 2018
Ecologist bio-farmer Torben Lutter's corpse is found skull-smashed on his farm shortly after he angrily dumped a load of liquid pig manure all over the villa garden of agro-industrialist Gerd Böckmann, whose partner since a few years is Lutter's ex, having moved in with both their kids, while Lutter had another farm wife. Stubborn green nitpicker Lutter made many more enemies in town, like Holger Röhrle, who single-handedly runs the lucrative local dun exchange system, whose dodgy deals -notably with Böckmann and unshakable publican Sven Schröder- Lutter was trying to prove.
Wed, Mar 21, 2018
Old hunter Heinrich Maas reports having witnessed in the forest a "Wolf" and a "Kängaroo", people in fur suits, and the last fatally shooting the first. Victim Maik Zarnow was indeed shot from closer then the hunter came, and the suits belong to the generally non-erotic adult role play fetish niche "Furry Fandom", who are staging a costumed -hence anonymous- event in a village near Wismar. The cops must examine the attending "Furries" and the regional fur suit dealers' records. Maik Zarnow's widow denies any knowledge of his hobby, but the team finds various links, also with a lover and Maik's childhood buddy and business partner in their security IT shop.
Wed, Mar 28, 2018
The corpse of Sten Lundkvist, a Danish millionaire who came to order an exclusive yacht from Wismar family firm Yacht-Jäger, is found among a cargo of scrap iron for China. His polyglot hotel receptionist, Inga Bornholm, saw him the night before with a woman and noticed he never spoke a word of Danish. Warf owner Eric Jäger met Lundkvist on the fatal night and reports he was addressed under another name by an unidentified man. Sten Lundkvist turns out the pseudonym of an insurance detective looking into a series of yacht thefts and re-modelings for sale in Eastern Europe. Which Jäger played which part?
Wed, Apr 4, 2018
Driving home, commissioner Lars Pöhlmann must stop for startled Robert Ohlsen's garbage truck and notices an arm sticking out. The corpse, to be pieced together, was local environmental activist Peter Misselbach, whose hard-line opinions made many in Wismar his enemies. He funded a society to attack municipal environment alderman Fritjof Böhme who openly hated the 'extremist'. His own wife Sina and especially teen son Jannis can't wait to turn back his radical saving measures at home. But a surprising link decides the case.
Wed, Apr 11, 2018
Fatally shot fish restaurant owner Arne Bahlbeck's corpse is found floating in the lake and dragged out by son and heir Christian, who hoped to become his new chef. Arne Bahlbeck, who just handed police chief Reuter the annual angling trophy, has face lacerations from a fight days earlier. Former partner/tenant Jens Nielsen planned to run the restaurants again with friend Bahlbeck but was bread-robbed by a recent fight. His daughter Karin is Christian's lover, but they fought to.
Wed, Apr 18, 2018
Timmermann and Stine find a cab in a field, way off the road, inside of which is the fatally shot of the driver, Alexandra Preuss. She was shot from snide, by a vanished passenger. She recently left husband Thomas, who remains in denial, in favor of fireman Florian Sagmeister, whom she met at a car crash caused by Thomas Preuss. Nearby the tossed murder weapon is found, an unmarked pistol used years ago in a never-solved Hamburg robbery, to which daughter Ella Preuss's tender but poor lover with record from Hamburg, René Kwiatkowski, may be linked.
Wed, Sep 26, 2018
Surf school owner Luise Barth finds her most popular, attractive instructor Finn Hoffmann skull-smashed. His wardrobe and luxury possessions and weed use way exceed his official income, but he enjoyed generous gifts from his many admirers, especially wealthy, obsessed Susanne Tilling, yet girl friend Lara Schmidt claims to be confident he was no longer promiscuous.
Wed, Oct 3, 2018
Forensic doc Helene Sturbeck is personally affected by the staged fatal fall, actually push down the stairs, of pensioner Elisabeth Zimmermann, whose son and heir Martin Zimmermann was Helene's great youth love. Elisabeth Zimmermann made many enemies, now suspects. Her neighbor, carpenter Jens-Peter Hilbert, risked his livelihood trough a complaint she filed. Martin openly resented her meddling in his marriage and general domineering.
Wed, Oct 10, 2018
A World war II grenade exploding in the fire place kills Barbara Voss, who was about to be consigned to a home for Alzheimer patients as her husband Hendrick Voss, who runs a modern wood mill, can't keep up caring for her at home. His devoted housekeeper Jule Steinmetz may have aspired 'liberating' Hendrick Voss, who also has a secret affair. His daughter Barbara might soon be disinherited, as she disapproves of his old-fashioned stakeholder care in favor of 'business numbers'. Her simpleton brother Ansgar also needs constant parental supervision and resented his mother being removed.
Wed, Oct 17, 2018
While sissy-teased by his professionally tattooing brother Dennis in the torture chair, healthy, athletic Chris Bormann faints and dies, poisoned. Parlor video shows Chris drunk from a coffee cup he bought at Martin Apel's food truck, and he had an affair with his promiscuous wife. But the curare poison was in the specially ordered tattoo-ink. Rebecca Mettlach, Chris's ex, is caught sneaking into his home, presumably to retrieve the ink bottles from South America, where Dennis had been repeatedly. Rebecca is the daughter of Dennis's former traditional mentor and now outdated competitor across the street, ex-con René Mettlach, yet made designs for Dennis. Also access had the Mettlachs in-living senior parlor clerk, former shopkeeper Olaf Benschneider.
Wed, Oct 24, 2018
During Jasper Becklund's funeral and reception, a delivery man discovers in Becklund's grand home the hastily trunk-hid corpse of a presumable intruder. Becklunds valuable clocks collection is stolen. Becklund's neighbor Sebastian Meißner is also missing, but according to colleague Olaf was Becklund's virtually in-living lover. The corpse is Sebastian Meißner. Nosy busybody neighbor Alfred Hagedon noticed people around, including Karsten Peckermann, son of the publican who hosted various receptions during which robberies occurred. The team also investigates the heirs, separated wife Greta Becklund and their adult, single son Ralph, devoted to her.
Wed, Oct 31, 2018
A passerby's dog finds the beached-up corpse of lifeguard Leon Richter, drowned with a non-fatal head wound, who was supposed to fill in for colleague-mate Malte Röper, a student with whom friendship since childhood was stresses. Leon's informally in-living, high-pregnant fiancee Finja Werkamp, daughter of region's largest camping owner Jochen Werkamp, acts shocked, her father admits he found Leon a dubious choice, being a poor worker and incurable womanizer. Even Leon's buddy Malte considers him poor father material, and made a photograph, found on Leon's cellphone, of a recent flirt with Malte's girlfriend Paula Liedke. The team must work out what all of them, including Finja, knew when and took how badly.
Wed, Nov 7, 2018
Grandpa Rolf Rothe finds veterinarian daughter Silke's corpse at home, with a fatal head wound and fight lesions. Silke's son Milan (just turned nine) seeks comfort with the predator birds they cared for at the small practice. Milan ignores his biological father Tobias Linnemann, whom she barred contact with, was not even told for years and seeks contact since he recently found out having a son. Silke used her eagle to catch and destroy the drones designed by Karsten Holthusene's firm with falconer Lukas Draheim. Yet a wildlife protection and wind mill implantation issue proves relevant.
Wed, Nov 14, 2018
Keys and matches found with a battered male corpse allow the team to trace him to boarding house Engel, where owners and Doris Engels recognize him as their son Frank Engel. He recently returned home after 18 years in a hellish in Indonesian prison, being caught at the airport with 100 grams of hash he ignored was in the backpack he borrowed from his cool youth buddy, former petty drug dealer Eddi Nagelstedt. The neighbors Heinze heard Frank argue with his grumpy father Karl, whose pick-up truck has traces of his blood. Digging in the past, with video tapes Edi brought by a day before, the team discovers more dirty secrets, focusing on third buddy Malte Kraus and his son Tobias (18).
Wed, Nov 21, 2018
Chief Reuter finally accompanies forensic doc Helene Sturbeck privately, but can't appreciate the beer tasting and they stumble upon a corpse in a brewery kettle. Victim is connoisseur Jens Schneller, whose video channel compared beers all over Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. His private life was traitorous: devoted Verena Kelm practically paid for his beer blog, craft-beer-brewer Hannah Zeidler was his housemate with benefits. Both claim to have ignored the other's role but lack a solid alibi, having been invited to the beer tasting. Yet he theme also finds suspicious money trails and blackmail potential.
Wed, Nov 28, 2018
Henner Simon is found at home, perhaps after catching a robber: spouse Heike Simon, a professor, notices a missing chrome statue, possibly the murder weapon, but the previous months more disappeared there and forensics finds many fingerprints, mostly from colleague Clara Hartmann. Heike Simon was at a congress in Kiel and claims the marriage was happy, which Henners employees doubt and nobody saw Heike at the congress after noon. Henner's company designer Jasper Hennlein, who invented he 'shark lacquer' his yacht furnishing business is built on, recently brawled with him 'over money'. Clara Hartmann's home is practically unused, she soon confirms Timmermans' theory that she imagine being Henner's romantic partner and couldn't handle the truth, or his wife. Lars notices a link with Hennlein.
Wed, Dec 5, 2018
Harbour crane operator Piet Lasseck drifts in the marina with a fatal head wound. Wife Thea denies marital tension, but the police recently had a domestic fight report and her father was abusive, Piet her victim but contacted a psychologist to file for divorce and sole custody of young Finn and Anna Lena. Piet's bully colleague Heiner Klausen terrorized him into false testifying in his favor concerning a third harbor laborer's serious accident, due to Klausen's crazy risks. Yet a yacht camera adds another actor, fitting a surprise plot.
Wed, Dec 12, 2018
In Wismar forest Robert Pohl, raiding Viking king in a friends bunch's umpteenth weekend LARP, was killed by a real arrow substituted for the standard prop. Alex Pohl, his brother, was his opponent as the defending knights' king. All players were on site. Traffic lawyer Boris Malchow, a crack archer who devised the LARP scenarios, recently rowed jealously with Robert over Robert Pohl's relationship with Boris' ex, psychotherapist Birthe Schuch. The team also finds a possible motive in an earlier 'fatal accident', so ruled after a faulty investigation.
Wed, Dec 19, 2018
Sarah Bucher is found beaten to death with a high jump stand bar at the site of her twin sister's murder Jana Wegmann five years before. Sarah hung on after the police closed the case, took a Schwerin cleaner job for access to the public prosecutor's records and ordered a private DNA test, concerning her suspect. Maria Zoller, who manages the club grounds, 'forgets' to mention she recently got a court order banning Sarah after troubling the visitors.