A Turkish wedding, attended by Ina Zimmermann and her new boyfriend Faruq Arat, ends in disaster. Two masked men shoot the groom Erdogan Cimsir and his bride. As Ina pursues the perpetrators, she is hit by a bullet, too.
Jan can hardly believe his eyes when his attractive Dominican holiday acquaintance Emanuela shows up at his door one morning. Emanuela came to Germany to look for her sister Maria.
Actually, SOKO had already solved the murder of Maria, a young woman from the Dominican Republic, when it turned out that the evidence against suspect Axel Strasser had been manipulated.
When the event manager Klaus Thein returns late in the evening from a business trip, he finds his wife brutally murdered in the house. Everything points to burglary and robbery.
Dr. Renner, a ward doctor at a psychiatric hospital, is killed with an overdose of tranquilizers. Suspicion quickly falls on Bernie Tomczek, a difficult autistic person who is being treated in the clinic for his delusions.
A woman's body is found early in the morning near a nightclub. Only at second glance do the SOKO investigators discover that it is actually a young man. Niko Blume was active in the Leipzig gay scene.
In Leipzig, a judge and a lawyer are kidnapped within a very short time. On the same day, Chief Inspector Hajo Trautzschke disappears without a trace. The SOKO team suspects a connection with a case that dates back 15 years.
Dr. Klaus Müller, a businessman from Düsseldorf, lies dead in his Leipzig hotel bed. Caroline Neubert, an attractive woman with whom Müller has often met during his hotel stays, quickly comes under suspicion.
Is a brutally murdered dog a case for the SOKO? Not really, but Hajo suspects that the concentrated dog murders in Leipzig could just be the beginning of a completely different series of crimes.
A young woman, Martha Mehringer, was stabbed with a knife and her body was wrapped in a carpet and hidden among piles of rubbish in an old factory building.
SOKO investigator Patrick Grimm gets a surprising call from Namibia. His father Antonio, whom he last saw 30 years ago, is dying. Patrick decides to travel to Africa to say goodbye.
Businessman Gerald Kuhn meets two young women in a hotel bar. He goes up to his room with them and is found shot dead the next day - handcuffed to the bed.
Twelve-year-old Julia Schwenke has disappeared without a trace. A witness saw her with an unknown man. SOKO gets the case when pensioner Felix Urban is seen with Julia's backpack and arrested shortly afterwards.
Just as the SOKO team is visiting Jan, who has recovered from his accident, in the hospital, private detective Kurt Nieß is found dead behind an esoteric shop.
In front of the house of Dr. Thiel, a man is murdered in a robbery. Thiel calls the police but does not give his name. The two perpetrators fled before the police arrived at the scene.
The self-employed Internet specialist Paul Förster is found dead in his bathtub. It's obviously murder. Förster's last assignment in an investment company made him many enemies.
Dr. Daniel Götz collapses dead in the hospital. He was poisoned. The investigations focus on Timo Schneider, whose wife died due to medical malpractice, and Sabrina Karstens, Götz's ex-girlfriend and doctor at the same hospital.
After an undertaker discovers traces of a violent crime on 80-year-old Herta Kollwitz, he calls in the police. In fact, according to the forensic medical examination, the alleged heart attack turned out to be caused by suffocation.
The security guard Rainer Dornfeld is shot dead on a parking deck in downtown Leipzig. According to SOKO, the cold-blooded nature of the execution of the crime indicates a professional killer.
A beating video appears at the school of Jan Maybach's son Benni. The mobile phone film shows indistinctly how three unrecognizable youths severely abuse a man.
A sex murder from 1986, an old case from GDR times must be reopened again. Hajo, who was investigating the case at the time, gets the chance to find the real culprit through an anonymous letter.
On a farm in the Leipzig area, Helga Kubiki is overrun by a herd of bison and trampled to death. The circumstances surrounding her death are so mysterious that murder cannot be ruled out.
As Ina's pediatrician Dr. Fuchs is found dead in his practice, an extraordinary case begins for SOKO. But above all for Ina: She has to coordinate her job and private life because her son Paul is not allowed to go to kindergarten.
At the funeral of his childhood friend Karl, Hajo meets his old sports buddies Manne, Siggi and Ingo from the boxing club. He hasn't seen they for 40 years. But the circumstances of his friend's death irritate Hajo.
Wagging rascals find the head-shot corpse of local mother Marion Heidt, who lived separated since eight year-old son Dennis died a month before in a car crash. Father Thorsten Heidt admits having sneaked in and stolen a fat cash envelope.
When Kerstin and Uli Braun come home after a party, there is no trace of their twelve-year-old son Niko. A broken window suggests a kidnapping. SOKO investigates and finds discrepancies at the crime scene.
Karsten Geschonnek is found stabbed next to his car in a better residential area of Leipzig. The SOKO investigators initially suspect that Geschonnek caught a car thief in the act and was attacked with a knife.
Is it just a harmless burglary, or has the tenant been kidnapped? While Jan, Ina and Patrick are still wondering what they are dealing with, Hajo is already in the middle of his worst nightmare.
Double murder of a Syrian couple. Aysha, who was called Silke Kern in her previous life and who converted to Islam out of love, is suspected of murder. The dead man was her husband, the dead wife his young second wife.
The murder of law student Valeska Helmer is solved in record time by a new forensics unit under Prof. Grundelach. But Hajo is dissatisfied with the results because the perpetrator Marianne Reng doesn't want to fit in with the crime.
An armed robbery at a gas station. The previously convicted perpetrator is shot by the patrolman Ralf Decker when he resists arrest. Colleague Edith Thierse can confirm the self-defense thesis, but more and more questions arise.
