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Ole(7) is reported missing by his mother Lisa Genter who has full custody but found his already fetched from kindergarten where staff member Daniela Wildmann, her friend, is found murdered in the garden shortly after. Ole's father Peter Langer, the prime suspect, is found in France with the boy, who came happily for a seaside holiday, and denies any fight with Daniela. Kindergarten temp Elmar Schindlmeier risked losing a tenure shot due to Daniela Wildmann's negative advice. PTA president Holger Spellerberg and Daniela had an affair, which he ended; recently. Rico finds out he misappropriated municipal funds. Peter's second attempt to abduct Ole brings a crucial clue. Meanwhile Benedikt and his daughter Maya have their problems as the mother with full custody plans a move to Cologne.

Industrial butchery owner Walther Holler was murdered at home. To save a major contract, he illegally imported sub-standard Balkanic meat for traditional German products, and was being blackmailed. Walther's kids and their spouses all worked for the firm, but got along badly, with diverging goals. Son Christian and wife Bettina are successful and ambitions, Bettina running a linked catering-firm while Christian dreamed of international expansion, but Walther objected, even reconsidered stepping down as CEO. Bettina hides even for Christian a secret with Walther. Daughter Simone and her husband Marco are relative losers, she doing the accountancy, Marco working off debts as lowly floor supervisor after a failed venture, they plan to move to Portugal, but Walther Holler refused an 'inheritance advance'. A paternity test swings the case.

In Stuttgart Burschenschaft (traditional exclusive young men's fencing club) "Aurea Aetas"'Chargierte' (official) Sven Ammer is fatally stabbed with one of the blades for general practice. The uncooperative members are even hostile towards the police, awaiting legal assistance from "Alte Herr" (supervising alumnus) Dieter Häberle. Jo helps Benedikt Förster to stop snapping, frustrated over loosing most contact with his daughter. DNA on the weapon belongs to members Simon Rieger and Till Bröker. Simon managed the club jointly with the victim, but they recently fell out bitterly. 'Fux' Till Bröker was wounded the night before in a duel with Sven. Attorney Häberle's party strongly opposed Sven Ammers modern style and plans to break ancient traditions while Sven cheated on Häberle's granddaughter Luise. Till's commoner ex-classmate protege is cruelly 'honor-dragged' into hospital. Confrontations lead to the truth.

Managing security firm owner Anna Dressler is fatally ran over during a nocturnal parking lot patrol. her estranged, less ambitious brother, widower musician Volker Stach, runs a musical instruments shop but was effectively 'cheated' at their father's inheritance by testament. Volker's daughter Christine Stach, a computer specialist and aunt's favorite, run Dressler Security's IT section. Firm employee with procuration Jutta Hoffmeister, owns the culprit car, which she reported stolen two days earlier. She claims to be set up by her ex-lover, Harry Dressler, now the sole heir while Anna never trusted him to be promoted above simple watchman. Harry points at jealous Jutta, since he refused to divorce Anna for her. Ten years ago, Volker's wife Helen died in an accident under influence of alcohol.

A sabotaged spotlight kills star lead Leopold Strasser during the dress rehearsal of Kleist-piece "Der zerbrochne Krug". Self-righteous divo Leopold was generally disliked, even ignored ambitious director Daan Wachtel. He constantly heckled prompter Hanna Becker publicly, and arranged the casting of his untalented, attractive flame and lover Beatrice Reimann, who dumped him for fellow actor Frieder Becker. Yet Leopold's past provides the crucial clue.

After Schotti's 'act' at the "Fuck-up-Night", where losers supposedly make a first step to a better life, he finds in the loo the corpse of insolvent Emil Jannowitz, but his new app project looked most promising. He was poisoned by mercury, grandmother Edith Jannowitz sees no motive. Beate Urig, Vice President of the organizing Venture-Capital firm which offered deals to some losers, intended to curtail Emil's after finding out his bankruptcy cheated on several creditors. Penniless carpenter, courier and taxi driver Robert Sandmann left anonymous threat notes each time he delivered at Emil Jannowitz's home, being ruined by his fraud. Emil's girlfriend Vanessa Löbing waited tables at the event, but the poison wasn't in his digestion. The team must trace the mercury, with surprising conclusion.

Pharmakologist Dr. Hortmann is fatally poisoned at home after discovering the imported blood thinner "Profitin" was sold critically diluted by distributor "Wöldner Pharma". *A comatose victim's father, Holger Eberle, texted threats. Hortmann anonymously offered data as whistle-blower to Internet 'leaks platform' Open Door. Slick employer Jasper Wöldner had a motive for his elimination, but also offers an alibi. His internal quality control chief Johanna Illinger collaborated closely with both but has no plausible story. Rico Sander finds, shocked,his in-living It-buddy Amelie Thalheim was in contact with victim and leaks site. She gets in danger researcher further the "Profitin" drug.

Nadine (17) leaves her new born baby boy in an adoption hatch (8 weeks to claim it back) and her corpse is found near the orphanage. She told nobody about her pregnancy, maybe not even the unknown father. She lived and gave premature birth in a room rented from Eric Jennewein by student Julian Schuster, whose single mother Daria acts baffled. Julian says they agreed to drop the baby in the adoption hatch, not being a couple. Nadine secretly planned to sell it to Eric Jennewein and his wife trough nurse Evi Neumann of St.-Hedwig-Heim orphanage. It turns out more people had interests, knowing more.

Gardener Sascha Janke was skull-smashed in Stuttgarter Anti-Aggression-center"Glob", where he recently joined the group coached by Bertram Fuchs, who overcame alcoholism after fatally pushing his wife down the stairs five years ago. Suspects include aggressive group member Helga Pauli, whom Sascha verbally attacked that evening. Sascha's wife Sarah Janke forged a fake alibi. DNA on the corpse fits Hans Pauli, Helga's husband, another group member, and pathologically jealous. Sascha Janke also has a dark past as link between robberies.

A Superhero protects weak and poor at night in Stuttgart. After real estate tycoon Falk Beyer is run over, it looks like he was Crashman. Franziska Beyer, his mother, blames Toni Kühn whose comics shop was about to be expropriated for a Beyers hotel project, himself an artist devoted to his orphan kid brother Felix. Toni seemed to live a comics-fantasy world. Falk's recently fired secretary and lover Michelle Schückens expected his child - Falk insisted on abortion. Arne Thul and son Christian were terrorized by Falk's henchmen till Christian committed suicide. Mother Beyer resented Falk compromising the family firm by risky foreign investments. Michelle Schückens, Arne Thul and Toni Kühn probably conspired, one being Crashman.

Widower Eberhard Bauer is found murdered, having run up high debt on dubious 0900-'hotlines', just to talk to girls. Teen son Nick moved to friends, his study fund was largely wasted on the sex lines, yet Nick Bauer says dad started paying him back, recently 3,000 Euro, but there's no record. Hotline manager Maike Wagner says Eberhard sort of stalked her employee, Franka Turner alias "Lana", who claims not to have noticed - maybe her husband Ingo Turner did? Then an earlier link between Eberhard Bauer and Franka Turner means a twist.

Neil Clausner is fatally shot during a space suit test in a quarry. As Neil hoped to switch to a Paris space institute, director and investor Greg Ohmüller, who hoped to lead a Utah project, is suspect as Neil would snatch up the job. Neil's wife Lea refused to move with him to Paris. Wheelchair-stuck technician Phil Bergner constructs an exo-skeleton, which might allow paralyzed people like him to walk again, but Neil didn't support the project and his gun is missing. Neil discovered that his secret lover, biologist Christine Reinhardt, had no degree.

Jogging in the park, director Kaiser finds skull-smashed Kenian pro marathon runner Mary Wanjala from the "runners stable" of trainer-promoter Roland Asch, whose jeep was used to transport her to the forest and they had a private relationship which his wife Elena Asch may have found out. Mary's slower Namibian training partner Akuoma Webo needs the price money urgently for her kids' private school. Doc Benedikt Förster finds Mary was carrying condition trainer Thomas Wildfang's baby but unwilling to keep it. Roland Asch led a double life for years.

Young David Poth drowned in the bathtub in an evangelical 'Freikirch' Solvention, virtually a Bible-biter sect of US origin, after a bloody flogging. His devout mother Rita Poth claims seeing sin in son nor parish. *Charismatic preacher Niklas Reich concurs, pointing the police to David's ex Caro Hermann who seems to corroborate a rehearsed alibi story. Jo catches sect-dropout Sebastian Köhler apparently stealing the victim's laptop, who explains he actually returns it, reluctant to add they were secret lovers and fears hat was the motive.

Albanian-born ex-con Agon Gashi was fatally stabbed in a luxury sports-car, which he rented without a driver's license in Turkish manager Leyla Atalay's rental firm Kessel Cars, but she lies "not to know him": Rico finds a picture of her brother Murad, who owns the firm, racing with him. Gashi presumably fatally wounded years earlier in a drag race Robert and Sofia Lang's 17-jährige Tochter Eva. Agon Gashi's family received monthly payments since his jailing from Klaus Bühler's dubious import-export-Firma, which sells them stolen cars. Rico finds a blackmail video, proving the real events around Eva Lang's death.

At "Taxidermy Competition 2018", top competitor Leo König was throat-slit, probably by a rival from Hans Murr's preparation workshop, where he worked brilliantly. Hans's son Till Murr, seen nearby the day, was to be passed over as successor by Leo König. Yet Leo gave his notice for a lucrative job with big game hunting safaris in Africa. Dr. Gerling's . Apprentice preparator Bianca Heller recently stabbed his tires after he dumped her, and stole one of his stuffed birds for her final exam, but neighbor vet Dr. Gerling, an ecologist whose blog called for culling hunters, gives her an uncontrollable alibi.

Günther Lehberger was skull-smashed in a prestigious rehab clinic. The gutter reporter checked in under an alias to expose the methods and chef Klas Eckert, and his celeb addicts. *Eckert claims ignorance, but his wife and spa therapist Sylvie was his study friend, and paid for air tickets to leave with him to Fuerteventura. Schlager singer Jack Silber and actress Anabelle Winter both has their careers damaged by Lehberger. A Beach Boys love song proves a vital clue.

In sleep doctor Karl Petridis's lab, holiday job student Ulrike Schmidt is found skulk-smashed in the industrial laundry. She recently rowed with patient Moritz Lehnert whose leaving the security video also recorded. She also had one night stand with nerdy student research assistant Theo Steller, who naively went for a relationship, only to find she picked his brains to steal his only change to attend a prestigious scientific conference in Gent. Supervising professor Dr. Karl Petridis cheated with Ulrike on his narcoleptic, utterly dependent wife Jana. the hidden, unusually shaped murder weapon proves conclusive.

The professional 'white witch' of Heslach, Emma Brecht, was fatally skull smashed with her crystal ball. Her 'black magic' niece Pia Brecht, who hides being on the other team, claims a magical curse. Emma's client list includes alleged reformed repeat offender Ronny Cordes, a former motor gang killer, who claim Emma Brechts showed him the righteous way, but has no solid alibi. Unsatisfied clients couple Peter and Annalena Haller hired her to save their marriage, but Peter Haller believes to be cursed since he field for divorce, also lacking an alibi.

Two months after his jail release, drug-convicted Erik Hamsun is skull-smashed on a cannabis greenhouses-littered garden. Fiancée Melanie Runge claims he was reformed to start a family together. *Retired garden owner Hella Lorenz claims -with admirer neighbor Hubertus Bauer- she never comes there, being physically unable since year, but her beloved, doting drug trade-suspected teen grandson Marko Kramer continued the drug trade on her plot, yet has an alibi. The murder weapon is found in Melanie Runge's home, the key clue in the actual cannabis growing equipment.

Karaoke-bar owner Sonja Börsch is skull-smashed at home, a day after forensic technician Jan Arnaud's latest performance as rare regular client and near-neighbor. Her ex and friend since school Jürgen Blochm was to drive Sonja to her father Helmuth Börsch's deathbed in home town Maulbronn. He basically managed the bar and used it for money laundering, most receipts being fake. Sonja's lesbian partner Anne Sukowski and her aunt Hildegard Hellwig knew both but won't talk. Bärbel Hüsch, who met Arnaud the fatal night, has a stalker-past an may have been jealous of Sonja whom Jan Arnaud happened to help out with a fresh client.

Rising Stuttgarter painter Anselm Pollak was fatally shot in his workshop. His ex-wife Anja Pollak will just miss him as good father for their daughter Anja. Anselm's trusted agent Lydia Kleeve is shocked to loose the goose with the golden eggs. His works, many in a Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie exhibition organized by curator Melinda Rehm, instantly double in value, most other works being owned by slick millionaire dealer-collector Niels Reinhoff, giving all three a motive. Anselm's ex gets a hefty life insurance. the team finds Lydia Kleeve, Melinda Rehm and Niels Reinhoff engineered Pollak's meteoric rise, with a surprise complication. Ultraviolet light semi-accidentally shows hidden clues on museum pieces.

In Stuttgart Cowboys western club, member Konrad "Conny" Moser was killed by a throwing knife in the back, having recently returned from the US and won out, with buddy Andy Hartmann, over club president Wolfgang Breuer and wife Sabine on how to spend a major testamentary legacy. Near-adult son Lukas "Luke" Moser never forgave him being left behind in Germany all his youth. Andy Hartmann was seen lurking around the club. Wolfgang's alibi falls trough. Kaiser and Schrotti join undercover before the eventful club jubilee feast, when another knife is thrown.

Jo Stoll is in shock when hearing, after making love at his arc, the car of his missing beloved Henriette Frenzen was dragged from a dumping lake, where a murder took place. Henriette's half-brother Timo Müller returned three months ago from an allegedly lucrative Argentinian period, suspiciously in time to inherit from their father with Henriette half of family firm F&J, now all alone, and she wanted to sell her shares, to manager Georg Jäger's dismay, while his wife Theresa suspected he had an affair with still-missing Henriette, but Jo can't believe she would have cheated on him and housemate Jenny Brenner. Jo surprisingly proves his desperate theory Timo Müller must be a fraud,. Martina helps tail him and an accomplice into the woods, where buried proof is dug up.

Jo Stoll is suspended for shooting Henriette's killer Jenny Brenner, whose weapon remains missing. Robin Sturm made a fatal roof fall after a fight. Expecting Robin's baby, threesome-partner Sally Schlossmache dumped housemate Alex Probst. A swastika-tattoo reveals they all were Neo-Nazi cahoots. Rico finds Robin secretly dated Turkish Samira Akar, who claims she ignored his extremist past, which he seemingly disowned since. Jo finds orderly Robin nursed Jenny Brenner and pushes Jan to check it's the same weapon, ignoring his suspension. The Neo-Nazi trio made plans for a violent attack, but Robin deserted them, the team can act timely.