Thu, Sep 27, 2012
Detective Anna Badosi is in a jewelry shop and finds owner Enno Patitzsie fatally shot in the back room, shots at a masked, armed robber and wounds him, while his female accomplice escapes. David Schrader's fate shakes Anna's confidence enough to reconsider her parents Renate and Lozenzo Badosi's initially rejected plan to start an inn in Italy. The police team, to Rico's annoyance joined by fresh rookie Nelly Kienzle, investigates David's claim he found Enno dead. The jeweler's son and heir, Thomas Patitz, left the family business after a row and started an Internet firm. Enno cheated systematically on his wife Antonia Patitz, who knew. The second robber is identified as Ina Schrader, elder sister of teen David Schrader, who remains in mortal danger. They were desperate for cash after buying a small garage. She's arrested after trying to free her brother by taking a doctor hostage and claims Enno Patitz hired them for insurance fraud. Rico Sander finds the final trail.
Thu, Oct 4, 2012
Shortly before auction house Lenné's Marc Turot session, their 'intern' art student Ariane Voss is strangled there at night, his paintings are missing. Owner Riccarda Lenné reports a ransom demand, which allows the police to catch recently paroled 'career' petty thief Kai Meerbusch, but he just pretended having the loot. Jan Arnaud finds the robbery was staged to distract from the purposeful murder. Attention turn to her more private sphere: her lovers Jan Weimar, an obsessive artist, and Arianes professor and promoter Ulrich Beck, who didn't know about each-other. IT-Specialist Rico Sander's analysis shows what's crucially wrong with the stolen paintings, yielding another motive.
Thu, Oct 11, 2012
The party clown, hired for the birthday party in the iconic city needle tower for the son of the state attorney, was strangled with his costume shoe laces in the lift. It's Björn Seberle, executive in Oliver Eichler's events agency, who took the boss's place last minute. Als die Ermittler Seberle's home was robbed, his laptop stolen, unlike 25 000 Euro cash, paid 'discretely' as private loan by state attorney Jens Köster, whom Seberle blackmails as part of his scam to take compromising pictures of guests on the lavish 'team building excursions' to luxury hotels with 'live entertainment in bed'. Köster has an alibi and informed Oliver Eichler, who proves he broke in to retrieve the blackmail pictures. IT-specialist Rico Sander gets hired to search the firm computers undercover, which also yields a candid pregnancy.
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
According to script, police series lead Raimund Heckmann is shot by Petra Rückert, but actually killed instead of the expected blank. Everybody on set could manipulate the weapon, as the man in charge left it in his unlocked car. Jo Stoll and Martina Seiffert have no shortage of suspects, as Heckmann was unpopular. Director Helmut Strassner knew about wife Tanja's affair with Heckmann, who dumped her for an unknown. Caterer and crazy super-fan Franka Hesse, with an alarming record, hated Raimund Heckmann being written out and was sickly jealous of his real life partners. Helmut Strassner makes a fake confession, producer Marc Kross is abducted by a woman. Rico's making off video analysis proves crucial.
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
Ex-con Leo Kehrlich's wood firm explodes while he's in the pub, wife Petra and son Tim are also out, yet a burnt corpse is found. Cause was a sabotaged gas pipe. Many locals turn on 'bad seed' Leo Kehrlich worse then ever before since a fatal fight killed the village baker Erwin Broich's knavish son. The victim was Leo's manager, Georg Sass, who had an affair with Petra since Leo as in jail. The local constable can barely prevent a lynching by rocks before the case is cracked.
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Thu, Nov 1, 2012
Forensic medicine professor Dr. Wolter is shocked that her top student Henriette Simon died in the college library from cardiac arrest and offers to pay for further tests after the initial ones suggest natural cause. Jo Stoll questions and flirts with Simon's foxy buddy Deborah Gerling, who found her and calls her unhealthily ambitious. Henriette Simon recently broke off her engagement with professor Hans Dorfmann, Wolter's colleague, after his surprise recovery from a grave illness, unmasking the gold-digger, but he maintains to have chosen even a short time with her. Lab tests still show no unnatural cause of death, but Stoll and Dr. Wolter set a trap to prove a far-fetched lab set-up theory.
Thu, Nov 8, 2012
Young Stuttgart discotheque DJ Tom Derichs is found brain dead from cranial injury. His girl friend Cora Jungbluth suspects Tom's father and hospital doctor, professor Dr. Peter Derichs, expertly knocked him down for refusing to donate the only compatible liver that can save his brother Lukas, a model citizen and Peter's pride and joy. Professor Dr. Derichs now preps comatose Tom, whom he administered first aid conspicuously coincidentally there, for the organ transplant, but Peter refuses without Tom's explicit consent. Sister in law Susanne Derichs claims she bribed Tom that day with 250 000 Euro cash, which remains missing, but there's no other sign of robbery, only the professor reports a dark mystery man escaping with some bag. Tom was informally blamed for the accident his mother died in. Susanne Derichs is forced to admit Tom wanted sex with her as bribe. Tom's girl friend Cora Jungbluth came to cash, suspiciously according to club owner Bruno Leifeld.
Thu, Nov 15, 2012
Housefather Alexander Dietz dies in a car accident on a rural road, due to sabotaged breaks. Fresh widow Tanja Dietz and her mother, Hildegard Blümle, believed him away all working week in his Stuttgart consulting firm. There Stoll catches simpleton Sascha Faust trying to enter the villa firm HQ, seeking to recuperate to money he paid for various flirting seminars which got him an debt, without dates. 'Pick-Up-artist' Alexander "Magic" Dietz ran it with business partner Jörn Wagner and his assisting sister Larissa Flirtseminare, recruiting mainly mouth to mouth based on his reputation. Many 'scored' women and some partners have motives to wish him ill. Alexander Dietz also discretely negotiated an international books deal with a Candian publisher, behind Jörn Wagner's back. Shy IT-nerd Rico Sander must go undercover and makes some discoveries.
Thu, Nov 22, 2012
Trainee Fanny Sacher was fatally skull-wounded in the family upholstery workshop with a small, pointy object, hard to identify.Father Rolf, sister Michaela and her husband Konrad suggested robbery, some 1000 Euro being missing from the till, but not her luxury watch. Jo Stoll and Martina Seiffert find her designer possessions way above known means, her smartphone leads to antiquities dealer Marek Heller. Brother in law Konrad Medinger threatened her by phone, as danger for the family firm. Fanny recently had sex, perhaps with recently paroled robber and youth lover Kevin Lausterer, whose big last jewelry robbery loot was never found, nor has cahoot identified, he's missing. Further avenues are found.
Thu, Nov 29, 2012
Stuttgart hospital nurse Silke Lopez dies from cardiac arrest after her night shift, despite reanimation attempts by colleague Eva Dubinski and duty doctor Dr. Werner Schäffle, who rules death, until Martina Seiffert, alerted by paranoid senior patient Inge Häberle who heard the nurses row, finds she was poisoned with the drug Narkobarbitalin. Newbie detective Nelly Kienzle proves an utter unruly nightmare for autistic IT specialist Rico Sander whom she must drive but rudely takes over questioning Cuban fresh widower Carlos Lopez, who contradicts himself. Eva Dubinski minimizes the fight but lacks an alibi and frequently phoned with ambulance paramedic Heiko Bachmann, who profited from his silence about an illicit affair.
Thu, Dec 6, 2012
Stuttgart real estate tycoon Erwin Kaminsky was shot in his villa, poorly staged as a robbery with only his antique watches collection stolen, not more valuable art. Daughter Bettina Berger reports his younger life partner, Lydia Jaspers, missing. Son in law and manager Hans Berger reports Erwin met Lydia Jaspers through her former employer, the escort service run by career criminal Klaus Bühler from a nightclub, both owned by big fish David Schöller, who has a bandaged hand - his DNA matches blood traces found at the crime site, but he goes in hiding, his alibi having been disproved. Lydia Jaspers denies any part or being a gold-digger, claiming Kaminsky secretly wed her already. David Schöller is found strangled, apparently by a hired killer.
Thu, Dec 13, 2012
A good-looking young man as fatally stabbed at a street porn pickup point. He's identified as Jerome Witherman, dancer in the Stuttgarter Ballett-Kompanie. Martina Seiffert meets Julia Weyer, his choreographer and fiancee. Prime suspect is the alternative male lead Gregor Dumas, who once eliminated a competitor elsewhere. Wardrobe assistant Nadine Wagner claims an intimate relationship with Jerome, and lost an earring in Jeromes and Julia's bedroom. Julia's Vater, Dr. Weyer, emotionally depended on her since becoming a widower. Jerome Witherman recently started taking growth-inhibiting hormones.
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Thu, Dec 27, 2012
Stuttgart star stylist Tony Stehr was fatally stabbed with his own shares in his famous salon Garcia, which seems ransacked by robbers, but the ample cash wasn't stolen as manager Anja Garcia and reception officer Jacques Oberleitner took all to the bank. Stylist Ramona Bellinghaus is socked, being the victim's fiancee and confirms Tony Stehr also did major regulars after closing time. His last penciled in, Ilona Grundner, canceled and spent the evening with Anja Garcia, but maverick fashion design star Paul Deus, was let in unannounced, but at the murder time attended an opera premiere. Tony Stehr enjoyed female customer generosity, sometimes into bed. Rookie Nelly Kienzle gets engaged on trial basis, an unauthorized undercover that yields more dark secret.