Fri, Feb 12, 2016
Only pre-teen Claudio observantly witnessed the deliberate hit and run that killed a PI. The 'murder weapon' car belonged to his gay boyfriend Michael Freitag, who has a tight alibi, and was left at the court house. The team works out the victim was hired by judge Dr. Karsten Lehmann, who seems to be blackmailed into messing up a murderer's trial, so they must discover and undo the cahoots' hold on the judge.
Fri, Mar 4, 2016
Prosecutor Reuther calmly confiscates he handgun brandished by his elderly neighbor Elisabeth 'Betty' von Bensing when she reports a break-in for which there is nor proof, but next morning she's found murdered by insulin overdose. First suspect is veterinary student Roman Blau, a charming klutz whose enjoyable company she rewarded with free lodging in her lavish mansion, a privilege enjoyed much longer by the middle-aged Kowalski couple, her de-facto janitors, who expected to inherit the home. Daughter Susanne is caught breaking the seals to search in vain for mother's gold coins, meant as 'funeral fund'.
Fri, Feb 23, 2018
County court executioner Karl Stetten is found in his office, skull smashed with his perforator. *Reuther naturally thinks of debtors, whose estates he had to action, staring with ruffian Werner Mohr, who wrote threat letters and is about to be evicted by Stetter's apprentice Emil Kamp, whose negative assessment was never turned into with supervising judge Falk, whom Bernd soon realizes was Stetten's inappropriate secret lover. Schubert looks into other debtors who felt wronged, focusing on near-bankrupt interior designer Theo Ibus who misappropriated project funds to pay for his wife Nicole's Boston surgery, but she kept stunning secrets form him too, crucially involving another above party.