Wed, Jan 2, 2019
Falk Petersen saved single Miriam Scherz from a fire, waited half a year to come forward, drowned in the lake behind her estate the night after she was beaten up by a masked robber. Grateful Scherz was generous for Petersen and his partner, who planned to start a diving school. Prime suspect for the robbery is local professional Ralph Tümmler as the loot turns up. Forensics finds Petersen was murdered with a weapon stolen from the Scherz home.
Wed, Jan 9, 2019
Relational therapist Gunnar Wittrock is found furiously skull-smashed and -hammered again in a parking lot. Patient Torsten Simon held his 'partial therapy' responsible for their divorce. Gunnar had many affairs, which wife Franziska Wittrock almost was used to, but the latest seemed properly amorous. Did Franziska Wittrock feel obliged to save her family the hard way?
Wed, Jan 16, 2019
Garage mechanic and tire merchant Arne Fritsch's neck was fatally smashed in the shop and found after lunch by employee Claas Franke, who suggested to save the ailing firm by selling counterfeit Chinese tires. Arne Fritsch refused and invested his father's inheritance in a house for him and pregnant fiancee Mira Hoffmann, the ex of his former swimming club mate Bastian Werner, who was jailed for drug trade. Contractor Ronald Böhm risks bankruptcy after a major mishap on the building site and hired Bastian, ignoring the links.
Wed, Jan 23, 2019
On doctors orders to follow a relaxing course, captain Jan Reuter covers up his yoga and mud therapy in "Baltic Vital Wismar" for the colleagues by pretending he's on Canadian fishing holiday. Hiding doesn't work as he stumbles on a corpse in a mud tub, but Lars Pöhlmann who's in temporary charge agrees to discretion to use Reuter as undercover. Forensic lover Helene Sturbeck reports less sympathetic, even jealous of the fat man-eater patient. Victim Steffen Reinhard was slowly poisoned with many lead acetate doses, probably there and at home, rendering wife and mistress suspects. Steffen Reinhard's cash withdraws to a fiscal paradise were ruining his wind energy development firm, which devoted deputy Bert Hohlbein was expecting to run after his retirement.
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Wed, Jan 30, 2019
Single mother Antje Breede made a fatal fall, staged as accident, from a cliff. Her cleaner job with affluent children's book illustrator Thiess Laurenz and Corinna couldn't maintain her lifestyle, but she seems to have had an affair with Thiess, who dreamed of a new life without Corinna, who might have found out. Antje's violent separated spouse, handyman Jan Breede, never accepted her leaving with three small sons of whom he has joined custody, only lacks a proper home or income.
Wed, Feb 6, 2019
Groom Torsten Bremer asphyxiated in his own vomit during his wedding night besides bride Melanie as result of poisoning by syringe-worked chocolate. Wedding guest Dennis Koperny danced with bride Melanie Bremer long after Torsten went to bed, having suddenly declared his long-standing love and offering to 'elope' together. The chocolates were pillow-placed by Gertrud Polle, whom Torsten gave notice recently. yet another kin complicates the plot.
Wed, Feb 13, 2019
Party animal and ship mechanic Gabriel Faber was beaten to death with a gun at a wood cabin, where a quarter million in cash and a marijuana stash are found. rather then a dealer, cancer-terminal Gabriel Faber was a client of medicinal cannabis, prescribed and personally delivered by his physician, school friend Dr. Thomas Kimmich. Ex-wife Ellen Faber claims she ignored Gabriel returned after years of overseas travel to Wismar. Her new partner Björn Wenner is caught lying about recent contact with Gabriel. But their is another dark secret concerning the drugs.
Wed, Feb 20, 2019
Dr. Helene Sturbeck's hot Argentinian tango teacher Gustavo Fernandez was fatally pushed down a harbor quay. Gustavo's popularity with female pupils in Peggy Schön's dance school rendered their partners jealous, notably shy Finance ministry official Martin Thieme, whose wife Johanna flirted shamelessly, even straight into bed. An abandoned, joy-ridden sport-car nearby is registered by Heiko Nüchterlein from neighboring Herne, who has a surprising link with Gustavo Fernandez, whose old and new secrets prove most relevant.
Wed, Feb 27, 2019
Jannik Claasen's fatal fall from a harbor warehouse window si reported by his twin sister Jasmin. The pair regularly releases popular, rather extreme prank videos, scaring passers-by fake injuries, zombie disguise ... Young prank victim Alina Preuß actually got injured after such scare, rendering her mother Marit Preuß furious. Teen Leon Schrewe's girlfriend Anna Everts had a date with Jannik Claasen the fatal evening. The twin's father Heiko Claasen clarifies their special sibling bond was breaking up as Jannik tired of Jasmin's domineering.
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
After the yacht club gala, member dentist Johannes Urbach's corpse, in smoking, floats in the marina, drowned after a neck blow. He volunteered his summers in an African dentist surgery. Girlfriend Anne Jappsen can't hide long she disliked the snobbish yacht club scene. The waitress Nina Seifert lost hr singer career after surgery by Dr. Urbach wrecked her tongue nerve.
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
When Jan Lehmann is badly wounded in a car crash, uniformed police finds in his trunk an old Wehrmacht pistol and female blood on a blanket. If he made a victim, where is she and in what state? A fitting corpse is found: nurse Jenny Horn, wife of Jan Lehmann's treating surgeon. The team looks into complex professional and romantic relationships, yielding an extra suspect.
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
Master organ builder Sören Pielham's corpse is found after a fatal fall in Wismar's Nikolaikirche where his restored organ was to star in the festive first concert by his brother, organist Hendrik Pielham, who fails to hide their dispute about a historical partition by a baroque composer. Sören had an affair with pharmacist Jan Sitten's wife Wiebke, who planned to divorce him and leave on tour of Europe with Sören. Finally there's Sören's former employee, now non-matched competitor Thomas Bungert.
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
Judge Holger Schmidt misses breakfast with sister Karin Wagner. His fatally breast-stabbed corpse is found in a wood waste container in the Wismar forest. The fingerprints were whipped from the murder knife. The presumed murderer of his daughter Nina, then driving instructor Markus Böttwig, was acquitted ten years ago for lack of proof and can't be tried again, despite conclusive modern DNA evidence. Holger Schmidt failed to get him to confess, the container belongs to Markus Böttwig's current employer.
Wed, Apr 3, 2019
Between popular local 'pirate tours' ship for kids "Klabautermann" and the marina quay drifts the corpse of crew member Merle Stegemann. On deck forensics finds cash and blood. Why was Merle aboard instead of with boy-friend Fabian Schimanski? She promised on a 'girms night' with colleague Jenny Schimanski and mechanic Elfie Pressler, who did all repairs at her own expense, to start chipping in to save the loss-making pirate venture.
Wed, Sep 25, 2019
On a girls night with police colleagues in a local bar, Karoline Joost happens to see Peer Seiler put K.O. drug in Sina Blohm's glass, yet can't prove it. Next morning, Peer Seiler is found murdered in his sail making workshop. He was popular, slick, yet kept a large supply of the drug he didn't need to score dates, none of which ever filed any complaint. Peer Seiler had long-standing trouble with Sina Blohm, who like husband Hendrik becomes a main suspect. However the dosing doesn't fit at all, requiring a general re-thinking of the case.
Wed, Oct 9, 2019
Shortly after her void attempt to stop an illegal drug race, truck mechanic Jessy Winter is found skull-smashed in the workshop she recently took over from her late father, returning to Wismar after her Rostock apprenticeship. She started an affair with Alex Lohmann, whose rivaling shop sells parts and does some car tuning. It looks like she found out and threatened to expose his use of cheap, inferior Chinese spare parts for German cars. She has no alibi, but the team also digs into her family, brother and mother having their own potential motives.
Wed, Oct 16, 2019
While gym club Magdeburg is on training camp in Wismar, where its two representatives are to be selected for the national championships, favorite Mia Lebedew is found dead after a probably pushed fall besides the bar, having sneaked in to train without supervision. Bitter competition meant the girls aren't friends, making her rivals prime suspects, notably Nele Klein, who really does it for her father Heiko, and whose secret boyfriend, Rafael Thomas, can only see her sneaking in. Helene's autopsy shows a long list of injuries from over a long period. Coach Gustav Haller once had to quit his Olympic team post after his ruthless training methods were suspected to have drive a girl to suicide.
Wed, Oct 23, 2019
Spanish 'digital nomad' Arturo Ramirez's corpse is found in a breeding tank of the Baltic fish reintroduction program managed by Dr. Stella Liebnitz, who found him but claims not to know him. He was the most charming member of the Mecklenburg-based, hedonistic IT collective "Work, Life und Nature Center" with Amelie Haag and Simon Dehler, who inherited the estate, and was hired by Stella to write 'routine' software, but had Arturo jump in for him, not a first. Another center boarder, retired romantic author Elke Schanderer, flirts with Lars as she did with Arturo, whose fate roughly fits that of her tragic Spanish novel lead, stable-hand Alejandro who drowns in a lake. Elke's jealous husband Norbert Schanderer admits having 'stalked' her from a Wismar hotel room. Dr. Stella Liebnitz hid her own, atypical affair with Arturo.
Wed, Oct 30, 2019
Playing in Wismar's dilapidated public swimming pool, a young man stumbles upon a female skull- it's 17 years-missing Christina Bellstedt. Recently reported missing is 'rollator gramps' Günter, a senior friend of detective Karoline Joost's kids, yet nobody seems to know his full name- research says it's late Christina's father Günter Metzger, whose blood is found near her skull, a murder case. The never charged only suspect in her disappearance was her husband, Lars's former sports teacher, 'handsome Klaus' Bellstedt, whose reputation as pupil seducer proves a figment of girlish imagination to render desirable boys jealous. Finally there's the paternally-abandoned pupil whom Günter virtually adopted.
Wed, Nov 6, 2019
Reinhard Koller, Wismar's well-known and -liked "beach pirate", who collects amber by the sea and runs a shop, floats skull-smashed in the Baltic. His apparently fatal burn by phosphor, which man can confound with amber, doesn't prevent Helene's autopsy: lethal neck fracture, foul play, and dragged to the beach afterwards. Developer Irene Gehrmann bid in vain on Reinhard Koller's land by the beach, for a huge hotel project, but officially shut that down months ago. Neighbour Helge Grimmiger lost a fortune as the option on her land was also undone, he needed the cash being physically disabled in an accident. Daughter Gretchen Koller ignores the true, major value of the big limp of 'magical amber' Reinhard believed to bring them luck, unlike the marine biology thesis student who helped out in his shop, where nothing else was stolen but that replaced with a cheap counterfeit.
Wed, Nov 13, 2019
Someone fatally shot well-reputed dog breeder Daniel Kahlke in the forest and dug a grave, but was chased. His high-pregnant girlfriend Annabelle Kruse seems shocked, and after brutal threat goes in hiding with butch Till Göbel, who later turns out no goon but her over-protective step-brother, who has a criminal record. Daniel Kahlke was bluntly threatened by retired boxer Hauke "Axe" Schulz, for selling him a sick puppy whose death in days broke his granddaughter Lilly's heart to turn mute indefinitely. Kennel inspector calls Daniel Kahlke exemplary, but probably helped cover up illegal sale of puppies from dubious provenance, not in he bloodline books.
Wed, Nov 20, 2019
Pensioner Beate Steinmann lies death in bath after two fatal head wounds, indicating a previous struggle, probably catching a nocturnal robber, who was picky, concentrated on the bathroom, perhaps staged, but ignored the small fortune is sash she kept rolled into toilet paper rolls. The lock was pocked professionally, as if by locksmith Markus Metzger, who has clients in the neighborhood all the time, whom she hired just too late. Steinmann and many other victims attended a crime prevention class for seniors "Sicher im Alter", organized by the Home Ministry, notably Beate Steinmann's granddaughter's fiancee Felix Brechtel, while she rather points at her estranged 'neglectful' widower father Benjamin Steinmann. Beate was expected to be absent, having been gifted a culture trip to Hamburg from her moved-in neighbor Irene Naber, who ignored Beate refused to stay in a hotel and lied to have won the trip herself.
Wed, Nov 27, 2019
Eco-farmer Andreas Hidde was left skull-smashed after someone pulled away the supports from under his car while he changed his tires. He left his wife and teen son Lenny as he became an obsessive prepper, building his atomic shelter. Inside it the detectives find his present girl Daniela Kuhn, who is traumatized and needs help, even having called the police paranoid. Andreas apparently considered returning to his family and home. Fellow prepper and lunatic conspiracy theory follower Ulf Karmann was caught by Andreas Hidde doing illegal bomb tests.
Wed, Dec 4, 2019
French teacher Jörg Bessan was skull-smashed besides the tomb of Franz Taler. Passionate genealogist Jörg Bessan proudly traced his Hugenot roots to the chef of Sun king Louis XIV. Recently Jörg Bessan discovered actually being adopted, given up by his Taler birth parents and nearby contacted ailing biological mother Bärbel Taler and brother, investment adviser Armin Taler, who took her in. Jorg's wife Susanne and teen son Valentin weren't told. Susanne cheated on Bessan with genealogical society and personal buddy Henning Biermann, who was leaving his family and expected her to as well, which she denies, but a secret leaked.
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
Teacher Christian Wullbrandt made a fatal fall from a hunting high chair, which was deliberately sewn to collapse. He was unpopular as contrary in the neighborhood, even recently killed neighbor girl Laura's act as bird killer, making her father Andi Dehler a suspect, having threatened Wullbrandt. Fresh widow Heidrun Wullbrandt was estranged since the death of their son, supporting none of his complaints against neighbors, and cashes a hefty recent life insurance.
Wed, Dec 18, 2019
After sending three teenagers home from a playground, responding to a complaint about drinking and noise, constable Timmermann recognizes the rebellious one, Simon Hofmeister, found next morning skull smashed against a stone in the nearest park. He never arrived home with his academic adoptive parents, literature professor Peer Hofmeister and piano teacher Kerstin, who describe him as perfect heir, but allegedly ignored Simon secretly wanted to follow neither's footsteps. Simon recently neglected school totally and started an apprenticeship with his biological father, stone mason Jürgen Bauer, where he got wounded in a mild accident. Simons school and band mates for years, Marek Seilinger and Violetta, didn't tell all about the playground night either.