SOKO Wismar

- Season 15

(2017)

Henning Peters was suffocated in bed with his pillow, found by doting stepson Lukas (9), who blames the mythical "Moort", a nocturnal ghost in white robe, here with a cape. *Wife Julia Peters was visiting her gravely ill mother Anja next door, who despised the alliance. In Henning Peters' gas station, recent employee Arne Friedmann, a Neo-Nazi thug, is prime suspect for recent thefts from the shop, even recorded by the new security camera. Henning Peters was a reputed adulterer, yet Julia maintains they were happy.

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Laundry entrepreneur Andrea Rossmann finds in a client seniors home the corpse of young Natalie Krämer. Yet manager Immel nor her husband, Alexander Immel, seem to know her. Residents remain discrete, until the team finds she was an 'escort girl' whose clients included retired attorney Klaus von Gemmer. Dementing Henriette Schröder-Bayer claims having seen Natalie's ex, Volker Waldschmitt, from her window the fatal night, with Carola Immel, but her sketch book adds a crucial clue.

Julius Bergmann apparently died in a fatal car crash, but carried 100 000 Euro cash. The corpse is found by his parents, retired judge Arne Bergmann and Sabine. Arne had only a few months to love unless he gets a liver transplant, probably only possible from a son. Julius was beaten to death, the crash staged. Julius's ex-con brother Sven denies having dragged him into drug trade, or having relapsed, on the contrary was about to break trough with his band. Brilliant researcher Julius blackmailed his biotech employers Patrick Schott and Sebastian Koch. The team finds ...

In Lutz Albers's ship wharf, apprentice Jonas Friese is fond murdered, drowned after incurring extremely deep burns, actually from a blowtorch. His grandmother hoped the job finally cured him of the obsession fed by his mother Sabine, to finish his late, semi-famous father's local maritime UFO-research. His girlfriend Jenny Weber just dumped him for caring more about hat research then them, perhaps returning to her ex, Jonas's fellow apprentice Gerrit Franz, in whose car a blowtorch is found. The team also finds Albers was in financial trouble, the UFO sightings ...

Amateur boxer Ronny Schnell is found skull-smashed in Balász Elek's boxing club's fitness by Katja Larsen, best friend of Ronny's lover Vanessa Tietz. As Ronny's trainer, Balász Elek objected to his best boy's intend to throw his promising career. Ronny's next opponent Timo "The Tiger" Clausen had a cheating deal with Ronny who may have reneged on it. Ronny recently started on affair with Katja, who expects his child. Forensics closer murders scene examination throws a new light on the MO, and thus the case.

During his last and best friend Hannes Warneke's birthday party, retired cardiac Frank Hilpert dies, but only because his medication had been switched with vitamin placebo for weeks in his rest home. Prime suspect is equally popular orderly Mike Stüwe, who hid from the management his previous abuse conviction. However the team also uncovers a secret affair with Hannes's daughter, providing alternative motives.

Three after his release from eight years jail for patricide and safe theft, Kevin Brandner's corpse is dug up on the beach, with some cash -not the 80 000 Euro loot- and an old army pistol. He always maintained his innocence and swore vengeance, notably for the claim of his adoptive sister Sabrina Brandner (then 12) to be traumatized as witness. Her alibi falls trough. Her fiance Jan Wettmann, Kevin's buddy and partner in petty crime before the murder, kept contact in jail and is linked to a bag of loot buried near the corpse. However the fingerprints on the pistol ...

Rich playboy Hubertus Kalow identifies the man who died when his 'datscha' (holiday cabin) exploded but whose corpse was dumped in the lake as Bernd Grossmann, the slick organizer of speed-dating for seniors with wife Sybille, but Hubertus may be the intended target. The gas heating was clearly sabotaged. Kalow's neighbor Kurt Wölffer was a bitter opponent. Slick Hubertus serially seduced elderly women in the speed-dating, only to drop then as easily, after trying further fraud or cashing gifts, maybe even Sybille.

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After performing with his band at a wedding, percussionist Alexander Nölitz is found skull-smashed on the beach. The wedding video recorded tension within the band, friend Rainer Lemke's wife Beate had an affair with Alexander Nölitz. Fresh widow Kristina, a jealous alcoholic, is missing after attending the wedding, then comes drunk the precinct, searching for her husband but amnesic, not even sure of her own innocence.

After a celebration with tree planting in his ecological commune, Thorsten Stein is found skull-smashed outside. The former tax official joint the alternative lifestyle with his wife Susanne, but both had affairs with other participants. Julia Fedder, who found him, started the commune with husband Mark, Susanne and carpenter Enno Gerwald, the only one who didn't put up 50,000 Euros capital but offered to work his share off in roofing, but Thorstan found his offer was way above market price. Neighbor Jochen Köhre wanted the land to expand but Stein found out about his...

Commissioner Jan Reuter investigates the murder of provocative naturist Sylvie Kopischke, at her mobile home. Neighbor Jochen Binder failed so far to buy her camping, an old GDR 'FKK' (free corpse culture) spot, crucial to extend his luxury resort with a wellness park, promising local employment, but he's a demanding boss. Ornithologist Henner Lang threatened her openly as her nude walks endanger rare breeding birds. Alibis fall trough. Kopischke received mysterious threat calls, traced to her lover, local beat cop Silvio Meissner, whom Reuter knows from a police ...

Solitary retired ship captain Nils Bodden, who allegedly kept his entire fortune cash at home, is fatally shot here at night. He received, like every year, a funeral reef since his abandoned sinking ship buried Hauke Frahm's son at sea. Nils Bodden shared his hobby, bird-watching, with Victoria Vogt, who canceled their latest date after a row that night. His cash wasn't robbed, but after counting it together, Katrin Börensen, who is up for promotion in another police force, reports solid colleague Lars Pöhlmann as only suspect.

Chief Jan Reuter is not amused that his arriving new detective, commissioner Karoline Joost, happens to be inside as client when the local bank is robbed at gun-point by a masked female, taking the public hostage and a female clerk. *Simultaneously Melanie Ernst urgently demands police help to search for his missing pupil niece Madita Ernst, whose mother Stefanie Ernst isn't found either. The branch manager arrives late from a trip but recognizes the robber ads a former employee. Lars links both cases.

Engineering professor Wolf Kessen made a fatal fall after a head-hit at his home, by someone with free entry. Student Maximilian Schacke's parents, engineers Thomas and Martine, harassed 'unfair' Kessen who needed to call campus security, while 'firm heir' Max hated his stifling parents' meddling but obeyed, forfeiting any social life or autonomy for a study he never chose. Academic assistant Dr. Eric Sommer did more then his duty, yet kept being passed over for promotion, let alone tenure. *Outsider Susa von Hohenstein visited married Kessen at home as a mistress ...

Fortuneteller Viola Zankova is found fatally skull-smashed in her herbal garden. Neighbor Nico Ziegler has no alibi or income, Viola promised to pay him for building an online-portal but prepared to move back to her native Bulgaria. SOKO finds she and a research accomplice systematically spied on clients to scam money out of them, especially shortly after losing a loved-one. A regular to his son Roman's open frustration, widower Hermann Biber, fell in love with Viola and planned to move with her to a cottage he bought in Bulgaria.

Ronnie Becker, his wife Frau Jenny and their daughter Lotta disappear suddenly from their idyllic lake house, leaving behind car, phones and papers. Ronnie Becker is the first suspect, having hidden even from his wife to have lost all possessions, even the title to the house, but his corpse is found with the sunk boat, murdered, no suicide. Fearing for the missing, possibly surviving kin, the team looks on, notably with the apparently silent neighbors, Daniel Wittbusch and his wife and daughter who bonded with jenny viz. Lotta.

Retired, fit Markus Rotmann's cardiac arrest during a joint workout in the gym is reported as suspicious by his seniors bunch buddy Hans Güstrow. Autopsy reveals critical intoxication. Prime suspect is Rotmann's recently moved-in partner Tanja Wunder, the gym instructor. Tanja rather points at his adoptive stepson Thomas, who fails to hide how badly his struggling shrimp farm needed an 'advance on his inheritance'. Markus's recent testament made Tanja Wunder nearly sole heir.

Paramedic Gerd Runge drives off berserk in his ambulance when his pregnant daughter Lisa Schneider is found fatally wounded at her home, blaming her allegedly abusive husband Carsten Schneider who stalked her since she recently left him. While the police wonders about the baby's father, and finds Carsten has an alibi, Gerd shoots him. Lisa's employer Holger Martens made enemies by selling fake Chinese parts for his ailing firm's luxury yachts, including Lutz Ahlbeck who plans to charge Martens for his exploded motor, and two-timed his allegedly also pregnant secretary...

Economics (ex-law) student Marcel Jeske is reported missing by his lover and student home mate, archaeology student Vanessa Schuhmacher shortly before his water-affected corpse beaches up from the Ostsee. His last appointment the fatal evening was with dodgy antiquities dealer Benne Fahner who claims Marcel Jeske was only an occasional buyer. Marcel Jeske's car points the team to the Celtic settlement being dug up by Vanessa Schuhmacher's supervising professor and other lover Felix Kobluhn 's team, apparently robbed by Jeske, who actually has a police record suspected...

Sickly senior spouses Wilhelm and Rosa Kusche are found apparently suicide-shot in their villa. Chief Reuter takes the lead, being the only cop convinced it must be related to never-convicted Wilhelm Kusche's criminal GDR past, especially an unsolved murder presumed to involve slick lawyer Christof Teevs, whose offered help Jan waves as sabotage. Also suspect seems the couple's Afghanistan front-traumatized, silent orderly, Bernd Rabe, who recently lost another patient. Both adult children and heirs were estranged: son Reiko written off due to his drug dependency, yet...

Construction executive Falk Schöller's corpse is found on a garden deckchair, beaten to death, while phoning with colleague Max Vogthammer. It was his anniversary with Juliane Schöller, who denied he inflicted the hematomas on her, although an abuse complaint was filed against him, blaming a recent car crash. His colleague Tanja Hoffmann had a hopeless crush on Falk Schöller and a very jealous husband, who filed the complaint after loosing a fight.

Ecologist bio-farmer Torben Lutter's corpse is found skull-smashed on his farm shortly after he angrily dumped a load of liquid pig manure all over the villa garden of agro-industrialist Gerd Böckmann, whose partner since a few years is Lutter's ex, having moved in with both their kids, while Lutter had another farm wife. Stubborn green nitpicker Lutter made many more enemies in town, like Holger Röhrle, who single-handedly runs the lucrative local dun exchange system, whose dodgy deals -notably with Böckmann and unshakable publican Sven Schröder- Lutter was trying to...

Old hunter Heinrich Maas reports having witnessed in the forest a "Wolf" and a "Kängaroo", people in fur suits, and the last fatally shooting the first. Victim Maik Zarnow was indeed shot from closer then the hunter came, and the suits belong to the generally non-erotic adult role play fetish niche "Furry Fandom", who are staging a costumed -hence anonymous- event in a village near Wismar. The cops must examine the attending "Furries" and the regional fur suit dealers' records. Maik Zarnow's widow denies any knowledge of his hobby, but the team finds various links, ...

The corpse of Sten Lundkvist, a Danish millionaire who came to order an exclusive yacht from Wismar family firm Yacht-Jäger, is found among a cargo of scrap iron for China. His polyglot hotel receptionist, Inga Bornholm, saw him the night before with a woman and noticed he never spoke a word of Danish. Warf owner Eric Jäger met Lundkvist on the fatal night and reports he was addressed under another name by an unidentified man. Sten Lundkvist turns out the pseudonym of an insurance detective looking into a series of yacht thefts and re-modelings for sale in Eastern ...

Driving home, commissioner Lars Pöhlmann must stop for startled Robert Ohlsen's garbage truck and notices an arm sticking out. The corpse, to be pieced together, was local environmental activist Peter Misselbach, whose hard-line opinions made many in Wismar his enemies. He funded a society to attack municipal environment alderman Fritjof Böhme who openly hated the 'extremist'. His own wife Sina and especially teen son Jannis can't wait to turn back his radical saving measures at home. But a surprising link decides the case.

Fatally shot fish restaurant owner Arne Bahlbeck's corpse is found floating in the lake and dragged out by son and heir Christian, who hoped to become his new chef. Arne Bahlbeck, who just handed police chief Reuter the annual angling trophy, has face lacerations from a fight days earlier. Former partner/tenant Jens Nielsen planned to run the restaurants again with friend Bahlbeck but was bread-robbed by a recent fight. His daughter Karin is Christian's lover, but they fought to.

Timmermann and Stine find a cab in a field, way off the road, inside of which is the fatally shot of the driver, Alexandra Preuss. She was shot from snide, by a vanished passenger. She recently left husband Thomas, who remains in denial, in favor of fireman Florian Sagmeister, whom she met at a car crash caused by Thomas Preuss. Nearby the tossed murder weapon is found, an unmarked pistol used years ago in a never-solved Hamburg robbery, to which daughter Ella Preuss's tender but poor lover with record from Hamburg, René Kwiatkowski, may be linked.