Sun, Feb 6, 2022
Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.
Sun, Feb 20, 2022
Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago, a friend reported her missing at the time. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest while preparing for an urn burial. A dispute at the site distracts Faber: It can hardly be overheard that inspector Bönisch and the KTU specialist Sebastian Haller are already fighting their private quarrel on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is a burden on herself and her work does not leave Faber indifferent. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: the gravesite was reserved here a few days after Feline Wagner's disappearance. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is recovered, just steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months will have passed again.
Sun, Feb 27, 2022
Carnival in Munich. The body of a 70-year-old man is found on a staircase on the banks of the Isar. A first trace leads to "Irmis Stüberl", where the man apparently had an argument with a costumed carnival guest. The most important witness of the argument is a "Little Red Riding Hood", who is clearly too drunk to be questioned that evening. Batic and Leitmayr therefore take it with them without further ado. Silke Weinzierl, as "Little Red Riding Hood" is called, is very annoyed the next morning. She obviously slept really badly in the detox cell. No, she doesn't know the man and doesn't know why the argument came about. It quickly becomes clear: Batic and Leitmayr are not only dealing with a tricky case, but above all with a very unusual woman.
Sun, Mar 6, 2022
What starts out as a "normal" murder investigation continues to spread: the shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found dead in his apartment. But neither his happy bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes a youth heartthrob in the dead man, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers amorous entanglements at the same time. And when the protection of the constitution appears in the shady characters Muster and Mann, it becomes absurd. Apparently, Thiel and Boerne stabbed a wasp's nest and even drew the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what about the little dog that loves to eat bananas?
Sun, Mar 13, 2022
In an abandoned factory building, cosmetic surgeon Beat Gessner came across the corpse of his son Max, wrapped as if in a cocoon. Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean discovered that the corpse not only had tattoos on the face, but also on the cornea of the eyes. The shocked father reports that he has not had any contact with his son for a long time. Initial investigations lead the inspectors to a sectarian artists' commune. This is led by the charismatic Kyomi. Her "disciples" are exactly like the deceased Max: shaved head, tattoos on the face and cornea - an incredibly painful process. A second trail leads via Kyomi to the gallery owner Bruno Escher. He markets Kyomi's art and could capitalize on Max's death. Would Escher go that far? While Isabelle puts the unscrupulous gallerist through the wringer, Tessa deals with Kyomi's way of thinking and working: like art objects, her followers should wear the pain of her past on their skin and reflect it in their eyes. Did this philosophy lead to Max's death as the ultima ratio of the mind game? Isabelle Grandjean observes Tessa Ott's apparent fascination with Kyomi with great concern: does her colleague run the risk of being exploited by the artist? Is the bright-eyed Kyomi trying to play cat and mouse with the police herself? Or did Beat Gessner not tell the whole truth?
Sun, Mar 20, 2022
Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country whose president is about to pay a state visit to Germany. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.
Sun, Mar 27, 2022
Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are on duty on the banks of the Rhine in the early morning. A man's body was washed up here. He was a mechanic on board a pleasure boat and apparently involved in a fight shortly before his death. When Chief Inspector Schenk contacts the captain of the "Agrippina", the case takes a dramatic turn: on board the ship that has just cast off is Daniel Huberty, a former high school teacher, who is now threatening: "I will take the ship in blow up if you don't comply with my demands." He demands justice. It did not exist in the court case when he was sentenced to imprisonment for a liaison with an underage student.
Sun, Apr 3, 2022
Eisner and Fellner are called to a crystal clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who alerts the police himself and waits for the investigators at the crime scene. Murder weapon, motive and factual confession included. Murder out of jealousy, a paraded husband who lost his nerve. Everything could have gone so "smoothly" if the country's most cunning lawyer hadn't taken on the defense of the accused and obtained an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the lawyer himself ends up on the autopsy table - and the acquitted disappears without a trace. To top it all off, Inkasso Heinzi, an old acquaintance of Moritz and Bibi, turns up to once again put their friendship to a hard test.
Mon, Apr 18, 2022
In the middle of the night, a young couple calls the police. In a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt, the two discovered a woman's body. But when chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive, the body is gone. A car registered to Maria Gombrecht was observed near the suspected crime scene. Although the car has also disappeared, massive traces of blood indicate that Maria was the victim of a crime. Confronted with this fact, the husband Ulrich Gombrecht and the two daughters Kristina and Judith continue to cling to the fact that Maria is in France for a fast hike and will appear again. Gombrecht is seriously ill, Kristina is heavily pregnant, and Judith is going through difficult rehearsals as a theater director. For the investigators, it initially looks like a robbery, but then the traces lead right into the middle of the family. Janneke and Brix soon discover that everyone here has secrets from each other. And in the end, the truth is far more gruesome than expected.
Sun, May 8, 2022
Nine-year-old Marlon is found dead at his school. He was pushed down the stairs and shows signs of a previous fight. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern soon noticed that this death caused ambivalent reactions at school: Marlon's conspicuous behavior made him an outsider who pushed his teachers, his own parents and also those of his classmates to their limits. It is depressing for the detectives that in Marlon's surroundings there is almost more relief than sadness about his death. Lena and Johanna are all the more dependent on Marlon's only friend Pit and his only adult ally, the social worker Anton Leu, for their investigations. Piece by piece, the inspectors reconstruct the last days of a boy who couldn't cope with his own emotions and whom not a few wanted to get rid of.
Sun, May 22, 2022
A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. She knew the dead man from the Spree, he had revealed to her that her husband Yasha is a leading member of the Russian mafia in Berlin. Rubin decides to help the young woman and tells the detective director. Julie wants to be included in a witness protection program if she can produce incriminating material about her husband in return. However, contact with Julie puts Rubin in a dilemma, because from now on she has to keep Karow out of the investigation so as not to endanger the young woman. Karow investigates the identity of the dead man, but senses more and more that his colleague is hiding things from him. Trust has been a thorny issue between the two from the start, and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow - especially since they've also become closer privately. All the more the old problem breaks out again. In her latest case, will Nina Rubin be able to free Julie from the clutches of her crime family?
Mon, Jun 6, 2022
A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigations: the traces in the house were manipulated, apparently the break-in was faked - but the forensic technicians found older remains of blood ... Neighbors and colleagues give different information, but there are indications that Fischer's wife hit and terrorized. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, killed her and faked a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody deed to incriminate her husband because she can only be safe from him when he is in prison? Her friend Beate Lindweg plays a dubious role in this marriage: Before Kathrin, she was in a relationship with Simon Fischer... The Dresden investigators have to find out what happened and descend into the abyss of a toxic marriage.
Sun, Jun 12, 2022
When Julia Grosz' friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator, disappears without a trace, Grosz goes in search of her. Under a false identity, she enters the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seems to have lost herself.
Sun, Jun 26, 2022
Bibiana Dubinski, best ager, wealthy and determined to enjoy life for as long as possible, dies of insulin shock. Her close friend Charlotte Mühlen, less wealthy but recently happily in love with young Hannes Petzold, inherits the villa and fortune. Two friends in the so-called prime of life, one rich, the other heiress, plus a 30-year-old ex-con who is ensnaring the heiress - is it experience, instinct or a fallacy that all the alarm bells are ringing for Ellen Berlinger? She is convinced that a crime has happened and suspects Hannes Petzold. But the evidence is not very reliable and prosecutor Winterstein closes the case. Martin Rascher persistently fought for a tight window of time for further investigations. The detectives comb through the entire case again, putting pressure on Charlotte Mühlen with suspicions about her lover.
Sun, Sep 11, 2022
Top lawyer Corinne Perrault knows no mercy when her clients' interests are at stake. One morning she floats dead in Lake Zurich. What appears to be a suicide turns out to be an insidious murder. As a lawyer for the law firm Clement and Widmer, she represented the up-and-coming pharmaceutical company Argon. Allegedly, their drug Volmelia caused devastating damage during the test phase - for example with Klara Canetti. The girl is in a wheelchair because of a rare disease. After taking Volmelia, Klara's condition has now worsened. Now her mother has sued Argon. There is a lot at stake for the group, because the outrageously expensive drug is about to be approved. In the event of a ban, the company with its shooting star Dr. Regula Arnold misses many millions, which makes the pharmaceutical woman the main suspect in the murder of Corinne Perrault, especially in the eyes of Tessa. Perrault's death causes dismay in the firm. The noble company loses a qualified colleague. For lawyer Matteo Riva, Corinne was more than that, and boss Martina Widmer also had a lot in common with the dead. But Isabelle and Tessa do not trust the demonstrative dismay of the two. Then the commissioners find out that Corinne had given up the Volmelia mandate and was on sick leave for a longer period of time. The investigators are still pursuing a third lead - mainly at the instigation of Isabell. In her eyes, Klara's mother Dorit has a double motive for murder. The hatred of Corinne Perrault, who aggressively attacked her daughter in a survey, as well as the prospect of high financial compensation. Isabelle tries to gain Klara's trust. Then Klara collapses while being questioned by her and has to be put into an artificial coma. Isabelle blames herself because she feels guilty about Klara's condition. In addition, the girl is missing an important witness who could shed light on the death of Corinne Perrault.
Sun, Oct 2, 2022
Manfred Gabler is found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Numerous injuries indicate that he cannot simply have fallen, but was severely abused in a hopeless fight before his death. For Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner, there are only very few immediately usable traces around the place where the body was found. Nevertheless, some peculiarities are noticeable from the beginning: Manfred Gabler was a Catholic priest, he had remarkably few social contacts - and strangely enough an amulet with the Satanic symbol with him. A possible reason for this is soon found: Prelate Gabler was active on a special mission, he was one of the few priests in the so-called deliverance service, which still exists in many countries and dioceses - Gabler was what is commonly called an exorcist. Shortly before his death, as Eisner and Fellner soon find out, he had an appointment with an unknown person "N" - possibly an important witness. But nobody can tell the two who this person is, nobody knows a name or an address. Moritz and Bibi take a closer look at the dead man's surroundings. Gabler's successor in office did not always agree with his methods, a somewhat eccentric scientist is interested in data that Gabler is said to have possessed, the psychiatrist who regularly examined Gabler's clients is deliberately taciturn, and what role does a former pimp play in this case? And above all: Where is the motive for a murder?
Sun, Oct 16, 2022
Inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are confronted with the death of six women and men, all of whom took part in a psycholysis session and died during the therapy session. As part of their investigation, they come across Dr. Adrian Goser, a controversial psychoanalyst and the sole survivor. Goser is known for conducting a particular form of psychoanalysis that uses psychedelic drugs to achieve absolute self-knowledge. While Brix considers Goser to be an impostor who consciously steers his patients into addiction, Janneke remains ambivalent about his therapy. In the hope of being able to reconstruct the last hours before the crime, Goser, as the main suspect, is brought to his villa to inspect the crime scene. While the investigators put pressure on Goser and hope for a confession, he denies any guilt and positions himself as the victim of a cruel act, the exact circumstances of which he cannot remember. During the inspection, all entrances to the house are suddenly blocked by an unknown person and a first shot is fired. Is Goser telling the truth? Is this an attack by the actual perpetrator, who now also wants to execute the last victim? And what does the performance artist Ellen, who disappeared a year ago, have to do with the case?
Sun, Oct 23, 2022
Commissioners Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of Cologne. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, went on the street for her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.