Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Fishermen spot in Wismar harbor a wine crate, containing live turtle Hermine, next the floating corpse of its devoted, retired owner, Willi Seeberg, unclear whether he drowned by cardiac arrest or the other way around after a fight. He accepted a few days earlier to pay 20,000 Euros ransom -advertised as reward, most of his life savings- for it, being the last gift of his late wife, stolen from his boathouse fridge (hibernating), perhaps mistaken for wine, but nothing else was robbed. Reuter mounted an extraordinary search for the animal as Willi Seeberg is an old angling friend. The team suspects young mates Eric Tiele, Thore Mayer and Lorenz Bock, who reacted on the reward advertisement. But his own son Klaas Seeberg desperately needed money for the house in need of constant repairs, after a failed career switch, his wife was told he got Willi to pay but they learned the armored memorial got priority.
Wed, Jan 15, 2020
Beekeeper Eddi Holm was fatally electroshocked, due to his pacemaker, left by his bees, but several hives have been stolen, nearly impossible to retrieve. His home was thoroughly ransacked, hardly anything stolen, duly presumed a frustrated search. Eddi Holm's public fight to prevent bee deaths from pesticides opposed him to neighboring bio fruit farmer Nils Nielsen, who no longer found beekeepers prepared to fertilize his trees, but adult son Thilo Nielsen started keeping bees himself, while helping to keep the ailing family estate going with kid sister Emma.
Wed, Jan 22, 2020
Retired veterinarian and animal asylum owner Erik Zierling lies skull-smashed and drowned in the water container in a stable box, the fatal, bloody tile was dropped nearby. Erik Zierling was repeatedly fined or arrested for vandalism, offending officers and so on in the course of animal rights demonstrations. Fake-Italian circus-owning director 'Franco Franconi' has decided to close down as the climate, started by Erik's annual protests and complaints, dwindles audiences, so he had elephant dung delivered at the asylum. Internet rumors that Erik Zierling sexually abused a minor girl volunteer prove unsubstantiated lies from a jealous rival there, but the murdered believed it.
Tue, Jan 28, 2020
While restoring stained glass in Wismar church, Jonas Pentke made a fatal fall due to the sabotaged scaffolding, that must have happened at night, when the sexton heard a bang and saw a car. Jonas Pentke may have hastily caught the robber who steals from various construction sites. However, Jonas Pentke may not be the intended victim, as most of the restoration was being done by his business and romantic partner Daniela Becker, who left her much older husband and fellow glazier Matthias, who still wants her back, for Jonas Pentke. Overprotective Daniela is pathologically opposed to her younger sister Heike Sabitzki's ex-con husband, ex-con Timo Sabitzki, whom she falsely assumes another wife beater.
Tue, Feb 4, 2020
Wismar shipping pilots guild president 'Ältermann' Carl Lauritzen's corpse floats in a boat in the harbor, neck broken in a fall previous evening, fatally pushed. Chief Jan Reuter was a friend since GDR childhood and when Carl Lauritzen was a captain at sea and patron of a marine NGO helping children worldwide. He was childless, to wife Ulrike Lauritzen's deep regret, but corresponded with an African whom she may recently have realized must be his bastard.
Tue, Feb 11, 2020
Contractor Hendrik Reschke made an improbable neck-breaking fall, actually pushed down a staircase at night, in the baroque Hansa merchant mansion he was restoring with a single remaining laborer, systematically late with pay till recently. *Weakthy owner Hannes Werth risked the restoration being delayed or even stopped now a 17th fresco is found on site, which might be declared a protected monument. Constable Timmermann is convinced Hendrik Reschke must have stumbled on another treasure in the basement, and actually finds Swedish coins.
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
Just gymnasium-graduated, Ole Janisch and Juuls Kampwirth planned a gap year sailing the world. Ole spent the last night on board, but is found by his buddy, skull-smashed. His ex Sandra Hansen claims she dumped him on account of the long boys trip, and bought the sugar that failed to sabotage the motor, but someone expert, like Juuls's mother Katja, sabotaged the rudder. Ole best buddy Ronnie Gorkow came up with the sailing plan, but was dropped having failed his final exam, Ole and Juuls didn't wait till his makeup-exams. Former sailing hero Mierisch, now a lush, made a crucial observation.
Wed, Feb 26, 2020
Michael Behrens made a fatal fall on a rustic road after his breaks-sabotaged, sneakily upgraded ''pedelec' (e-bike) speeded uncontrollably. As a life-long pedantic serial law suitor, he made countless enemies. His estranged only son and heir intestate own a bike shop, hence is capable to manipulate and had access to the home basement where it was kept, but as turns out not the fatal evening. The team also looks into Michael's uncooperative, sneaky maid-or-more, and the landlady who eagerly pointed to her.
Wed, Mar 4, 2020
Rainer and Rita Tiedemann run with their teen son a mobile company which steam-cleans dawn beds, all over northern Germany. During another visit to Wismar, they find in the steam cabin the skull-smashed corpse of regular discrete major customer (with his own key) Sven Ole Gerstner, junior employee in old Norbert Tötensen's pest control firm, and the childless widower's informal son. Rita Tiedemann hides an affair with him, but only their son knew about it, not devoted husband Rainer. Sven Ole Gerstner frequently called with deputy manager Yves Sundermann, who hired him discretely for the city's posh hotel. Who knew what proves crucial, plus bed bug DNA.
Wed, Mar 11, 2020
Near-high-school graduate Niklas Norberg is found skull-smashed after a pushed fall aboard the boat he inhabited at sea and planned to make a world tour in 'couch surfing'. After his parents' fatal car crash, Niklas was raised in his aunt Merle Christensen's family, as 'elder brother' of their doting own teen son Björn Christensen. A while ago, he moved out after abandoning his apprenticeship as Hagen Christensen's potential successor as local supermarket manager, turning against capitalistic 'excessive consumerism', raiding the firm's waste container for 'perished' food with his girlfriend, daughter of a divorced manager, who planned to sneak off with him after ditching her studies, who has a remarkably tragic admirer.
Wed, Mar 18, 2020
Shortly before the next national selections, retired senior high jump champion Elisabeth Mayer is murdered, the a fall on her daily jogging round staged. Viktoria Böhmer now has a shot at the Wismar spot, and the sponsoring sports equipment firm just decided to stop paying for both. GDR days rival Marianne Stegemann was on the same 1964 (last 'joined German') Olympic team, where both met and fell in love with Ruderer Dieter Mayer, whom Marianne Stegemann only just now told he sired her now adult daughter, having returned to the FRG and receiving false report from Elisabeth, who wed Dieter Mayer and domineered hum utterly, that he allegedly passed away.
Wed, Mar 25, 2020
*Angling on his day off, chief Reuter fishes op the corpse of Romy Hellmann, who was skull-smashed and dragged. She gave the parenting courses at the "Mama-Laden" baby shop, which is managed by her sister Linda and husband Jesper Steffens, who took Romy on free of rent, returning after a long stay in Hamburg, but hides poorly she resents their sickly mother Marianne Hellmann, whom Linda and her husband care for, always favored lazy Romy, who sort of pretended to take over the shop unilaterally, without having any shares.
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
Cripple senior Ingrid Petersen was skull-smashed as if in a failed robbery, which seemingly yielded no loot of value. her son Philipp Petersen now reconsiders her dismissed claims since months, according to his partner a sign of dementia, of receiving anonymous calls and objects being moved around the house. Searching from a possible intruder and/or murderer, the team discovers in neighbor Johanna Röhl's home a rare admiralty clock identical to the one Philipp Petersen confirms being stolen from Ingrid and come on the trail of systematical insurance appraisal errors and counterfeiting.
Wed, Oct 7, 2020
Timmermann stops and searches a van transporting laundry for driving with an open back door. Driver Sven Burdenski ignores how a corpse got into a full laundry basket, which he got from beach hotel "Drei Möwen", where victim Loris Falter was a guest. Timmermann however realizes it's not the real Loris Falter, a harmless homeless hobo he knows and gets to admit he as paid for his identity card. The actual victim was brutally stabbed in his hotel room bath, and is identified as Marc Binz, long-missing playboy son of pickled herring baron Binz. Marc Binz wrecked the family firm and hies from his debtors, having countless enemies.
Wed, Oct 14, 2020
During a guided tour of the Wismar coastal moor, a young female corpse is found, covered in bruises. Coroner Helene Sturbeck is shocked to recognize Melanie Reusdorf, whom she failed months ago to persuade to file a serious abuse complaint after examining her, hence feels guilty and insists the abuse-suspected partner be arrested as the presumable murderer. It's well-reputed, charismatic attorney Anwalt Gregor Stein, who claims he searched for her in vain. His present partner vouches for Gregor, while his elderly mother Christiane, who inhabits the ground level of their grand home, is most hostile, protective of his reputation.
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
Wismar's crime godmother Margot Ahlers puts up a case of cash ransom for her kidnapped son Hauke to be delivered by his brothers Jasper and Tjerk Ahlers, but the latter starts a fist fight which chases a abductor, leaving their leader Maik Lüders behind unconscious, but taking the cash. Ahlers sister Bine informed chief Reuter, whose team finds that -perhaps killed- Hauke Ahlers planned to flee to Russia. The other kidnapper s found, Jannik Knopp, but denies responsibility, indeed instrumental in a double-crossing plot.
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
Allergic Ilse Eger died from peanut bits in her breakfast muesli, despite someone using her emergency kit. Her retirement residence neighbors are shocked, especially Heinrich Witt, who found her dying, unable to help. Buddies Frieda Witt and Regine Hagen moved in together a few months ago to enjoy their last years. Ilse's birthday party the night before had more guests, including Ilse's son Peer Eger, whom Regine suspects of resenting at all cost her objections to selling the house she signed over conditionally for tax purposes, reserving right of residence, which halves the selling value, while he needs capital to avoid bankruptcy.
Wed, Nov 4, 2020
Horse-riding, Gerald von Gungelitz breaks his bleeding neck due to a steel wire strung across his path. He is missed by his sister Gesine von Gungelitz and her teen son Jonathan, whom Frankfurt businessman Gerald von Gungelitz was visiting, at their manage, which he once ran with her, recovering after a bad divorce. Wine glasses in his room suggest female company, and he recently had a row with stable-hand Bert Krüger, who lies it ware just about sports, in fact his girl friend Rike Meyer was Gerald's visitor. But torn-up VIP tickets also put the team on a sad other trail.
Wed, Nov 11, 2020
An anonymous call reports the crash of pilot school owner David Husby's glider after a shot in the morning, but cause of death was a free-flying tree branch piercing Husby's chest. Stubborn bio-farmer Arno Uphoff filed several failed complaints against the neighboring pilot school 'spooking his cattle'. David's partner Solveig Dülmener grimly resisted his plan to return to his native Australia now their daughter had left home, and left him. Still the team finds another suspect among the flying school's clientele and watchers.
Wed, Nov 18, 2020
Shortly after the court ruled for Achim Buchholz's claim to a historically reconstructed Swedish canon against Wismar's Historischen Gesellschaft der Hansebrüder, he is killed when it explodes as he test it with -lightly wounded- buddy Oliver Michel on the beach. Their own specially designed showcase shell was tampered with, inserting highly explosive modern gun powder. First suspect is the rival club. Achim Buchholz's wife Julia felt neglected and hated him spending every dime on the historical reenactments, which she only joined to meet men. Finally an affair is discovered.
Wed, Nov 25, 2020
Timmermann was observed by Danish guest colleague Stine Bergendal, meeting in the evening secretly on a tower with a mystery woman, identified as Fenja Wellenmacher when her corpse lies under the tower next morning. Husband Harald Wellenmacher suspected her of an affair, as confirmed by a friend: she probably wanted to start over with another partner. Was that her once ex Timmermann, who claims he never learned what she wanted and is forced to take leave pending the investigation? In Fenja's car is found the weapon used for a recent armed robbery on a cash shipment. A trail leads to the laundry firm, which had access to security guard- and police uniforms and even crucial info.
Wed, Dec 2, 2020
Tibor Müller was beaten yo death at the though private booth camp for 'wayward youth' he runs at the parents' expense in the woods outside Wismar. The previous evening, he handcuffed main rebel teen Sara Wagner to an iron gate. Sara got loose and allegedly went to sleep in her girl group's tent. The next morning, his deputy, psychologist Vero Frisch, started camp business as usual, without reporting him missing all day 'not to worry anyone'. Later the team learns Vero was his secret lover, and jealous of another lover he had in Wismar, and went there.
Wed, Dec 9, 2020
Popular dog trainer Christin Neuhaus's asthma rendered a pepper-spray dose in the park fatal. Veterinarian Dr. Ludwig admired Christin, her adulterous lover with an animal rights activist stunts criminal record, conspired with her to remove at least two dogs under false pretenses from horrible owners, like publican Arne Weiss who didn't even name his 'failed guard dog'. Martial arts school owner Mats Zepf is pinned to the murder site and time, has a violent record and an unrequited crush on Christin bot a solid alibi.
Wed, Dec 16, 2020
Harbor logistics project manager Christian Weberwas stone-beaten to death. He was member with wife Jenny Weber of a group of 'frugalist' housemates and already saved up 40% of the capital target to retire early and enjoy life, but she rather went along for his sake, affording herself some excessive luxuries, Christian even canceled their joint saving account. He also had an adulterous affair with frugalist neighbor Alexandra Lämmle, who runs an economizing blog.
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
Hours after wolf cries are heard, Frank Schäfer's corpse is found behind his shepherd trailer with a wolf-like wound. A few months earlier hostile neighbor Hans-Hermann Lang's dogs attacked his herd, so owner Für Lena Brüggemann points to him, as she refuses to sell him the pasture, which is needed for a development project. Frank Schäfer is actually a false identity of a car crash victim, assumed years ago by Paul Marklund who fatally shot during an armed robbery Lena Brüggemann's mother. The bite is also fake, made with a retrieved instrument.
Wed, Dec 30, 2020
Logistic entrepreneur Karsten Walbeck was fatally crushed between boats after a fall from his yacht, face unrecognizable, later hauled up on deck. Fresh widow Miriam Walbeck believed him on business conference trip in Hamburg, having received actually posthumous mails. Karsten actually engaged Karin Sellmann's semi-professional alibi-agency, which doesn't ask for clients' motives. His wife ignored that and his bastard son, ex-con Julian Voss, who allegedly turned good and regularly met Karsten in the marina. Karsten also has a young-adult stepson, Niklas Fellner, who has great ambition but little success and a surprising moonlight job.