Tatort

- Season 52

(2020)

A police murderer has already murdered 4 senior officers in North Rhine-Westphalia. In order to end the series of murders, a team of 7 colleagues from different departments should work together and deliver quick results.

Gümer asks the suspended Nick for help in protecting a leniency worker in a drug lawsuit. His brother, also a witness, has already been murdered. Apparently the drug dealers have an informant with the police. Yalcin tries to unmask it.

A 17 year old student is murdered on a lake shore. Ballauf and Schenk determine the victim's classmates. The teenager was apparently often the victim of bullying attacks due to his sexual orientation.

A ticket inspector's murderer is killed on the run. A large amount of ammunition and a radio are found near the body. Apparently there is an accomplice who is planning a killing spree. Batic and Leitmayr try to prevent this.

The murderer of Faber's family, Markus Graf, kidnaps Pawlak's daughter in order to force Faber to commit suicide. Only then will he release Pawlak's daughter.

Falke and Grosz investigate after a murder in the Hamburg red light milieu.

Philip Kiehl is murdered in his hotel room. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg investigate.

The two police superintendents Ringelhahn and Voss arrest a permanent murderer. But there remain doubts about the quick confession of the perpetrator.

Odenthal and Stern investigate young people in a difficult social environment after a murder of a pub inn.

A student is shot in the open in front of her university out of nowhere. Apparently there is no motive for the murder.

A youth official with many enemies is found killed under a bridge.

After an attack on Commissioner Lindholm, colleague Schmitz has to shoot the apparently mentally confused man. In the course of the investigation, Lindholm and Schmitz come across a second body. The events are apparently related to a deployment of the Bundeswehr abroad.

The convicted Louis Bürger is suspected of killing a motorcycle policeman with a baseball bat. Despite his claims of innocence, he is arrested and detained. However, with the help of his wife, he managed to escape and the family wanted to move to Croatia. Gorniak and Winkler put him in front of the home where his son currently still lives. There is a hostage-taking.

In their first case, the new Saarbrücken police commissioners Schürk and Hölzer deal with the murder of the potential new managing director of a family company. The family appears completely hostile and the victim's father has also died under mysterious circumstances. The background to the events seems to go back to the Second World War, when the company employed forced labor.

After a night of heavy drinking detectives Janneke and Brix get called to a crime scene in the woods. In a lonely cabin they find a male body that was seemingly tortured. To their surprise their college Matzerath confesses at the scene.

Lindholm and Schmitz investigate a politically sensitive case of a feminist right-wing activist who was found dead in the woods. The young woman was a well known Alt-Right blogger with her own successful website called "National Feminin".

When a young woman commits suicide right before the eyes of some police trainees it sets in motion a series of tragic events. While detectives Borowski and Sahin investigate the case they themselves get drawn into the occurrences.

The chief doctor of a psychiatric clinic is murdered. Ballauf and Schenk investigate in the hospital.

A serial killer who announces his actions by letter keeps the Stuttgart investigators in suspense. A "1" appears in the letter that is addressed to Lannert and Bootz. What is behind it will soon become a sad reality. On the same day, a woman is shot long range on the open road. The cartridge case that is found has an "1" engraved on it. The second letter contains a claim for money. However, the perpetrator cannot be caught when the money is handed over and a second murder occurs. At the second crime scene, traces of red nail polish are found in addition to the ...

Marlies Schrey, wife of the knitwear manufacturer Gerd Schrey, is killed in front of the terrace of a popular excursion restaurant in broad daylight - and nobody has seen anything. Since Marlies was tied up and gagged, Kira Dorn and Lessing assume that the kidnapping was unsuccessful. The assumption is confirmed when shortly afterwards they find a ransom demand of over two million euros in the Villa Schrey. Gerd was also kidnapped, so it is up to his son Maik to find the money. The Schreys have signed a kidnap and ransom policy that is about to expire. Did Gerd Schrey...

A thirteen-year-old boy is found dead in the Isar. His cellphone track ends at a parking lot known as a hangout for anonymous sex, 20 kilometers from the Isar. The commissioners suspect that the boy may have filmed something compromising. The investigation leads to the families of the victim and his best friend.

A bodybuilder who appears to be dealing in anabolic steroids is murdered. Fredo investigates incognito on site and literally gets a red nose.

A young adult falls to his death in an old factory. The evidence that it was murder quickly hardened. The footsteps lead to an American family well integrated into the neighborhood.

On the way home from a wine festival in the Kaiserstuhl, radio presenter Beate Schmidbauer, a friend of police chief Cornelia Harms, is knocked unconscious and raped by an unknown perpetrator. Although the man's DNA can be ascertained, Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg do not find any equivalent in the databases. Cornelia Harms is close to the case, but given the circumstantial evidence, she can give her friend little hope that the perpetrator will be identified. When, however, the news comes from Alsace that a man with identical DNA has been wanted for years for ...

The Berlin building contractor Klaus Keller is found shot on his 90th birthday. A sign hangs around his neck with the words: I was too cowardly to fight for Germany. Keller was the senior boss of a large Berlin construction company, his current largest project was the construction of a documentation center on the Shoah in Israel. A right-wing assassination attempt? Much seems to speak for it. But there is another lead. A youth photo of the crime victim Klaus and his brother Gert has disappeared from the dead man's apartment. Does the murder have anything to do with ...

On her first day at work, the profiler Tessa Ott was immediately thrown into the deep end: a body of fire with a head-shot wound was found near Lake Zurich. At the scene of the crime, Ott is greeted frostily by her new colleague Isabelle Grandjean - the French policewoman is certain that the inexperienced Ott only got the job thanks to vitamin B. Because the young colleague comes from a long-established Zurich family and seems to know everyone. Reluctantly, Grandjean includes the profiler in the investigation. But she soon notices that Ott has little practical ...

In the current "Krank" case, Harald Krassnitzer and Adele Neuhauser find themselves in the middle of a religious war between conventional medicine and alternative healing methods. When a little girl dies after using so-called gentle medicine, it makes waves and a bitter, highly emotional argument breaks out. Should she really have died, or could she have been saved with other treatment? Was your father, a well-known representative of alternative medicine and co-founder of the "Medicina Lenia" company, guilty of treating his daughter? A lawsuit acquits him from such ...

When the HR manager of a Stuttgart company is found dead in the forest, the inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin their investigations in the company. They hear no special incidents - CEO Joachim Bässler does not mention his conflict with former employee Oliver Manlik. He was imprisoned for corruption in the USA for over three years as a pawn by the company. Now he's back in the country and wants his life back. His private life is in ruins, his wife Caroline has lost all trust in him and his son also evades him. At least at the company, Oliver Manlik ...

After dinner with his closest colleagues, Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne suffers a catastrophic car accident on his way on vacation. Seriously injured, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctors in the intensive care unit are fighting for his life. Chief Inspector Frank Thiel is suspicious of the matter - his gut feeling tells him that something is wrong with Boerne's accident. Was it really an attempted murder? Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm refers to the colleagues who are investigating the accident and forbids Thiel to conduct his own investigations, which of ...

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As soon as Felix Murot has arrived on vacation and is having a good glass of wine in the garden of the local restaurant, the irritated waitress slams a knuckle on his table that he has not ordered. She confuses him with Walter Boenfeld, a married used car dealer who sits at the other end of the restaurant garden and waits in vain for his meal. Murot goes in search of the real owner of the knuckle and gets to know Walter, who is like one egg to another. Inspired by this strange encounter, the two different men spend the evening together, drink too much and talk about ...

For Luca Modica, the family is everything. He runs a small pizzeria in Dortmund with his wife Juliane. The restaurant is not doing well, but deliveries come regularly and are reloaded on site: cocaine, on behalf of the 'Ndrangheta. Their 17-year-old daughter Sofia does not know where the money that the family lives on comes from. Pippo Mauro suddenly shows up with a delivery. He committed a murder in Munich. Luca has to offer him shelter, the 'Ndrangheta demands it. After some initial hesitation, the two men approach. Pippo gives Luca new business ideas and he smells ...

Sofia Modica suffers from the fact that her mother betrayed the family to the police in Dortmund. She went into hiding with her father Luca and Pippo in Munich. The hope that they can quickly travel on to Calabria is little consolation for Sofia. They are dependent on the Italian entrepreneur Domenico Palladio, a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta, who uses Pippo and Luca for his own purposes to whitewash drug money in the construction industry in Munich. It doesn't take long for Pippo and Luca to make a mistake that puts the chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz ...

The "Haus Lüdecke" has a long history and is known beyond the borders of Münster. A body is found in the moat of the old moated castle - in knight armor. The dead person is the newly crowned lord of the castle Manfred Radtke. Was it an accident or is there more to it - as Inspector Thiel suspects? Only a few months ago, the former fair king Radtke bought the venerable castle and wanted to organize medieval games here with his family in the future. Central theme: the bloodthirsty story of the Anabaptists in Münster. Boerne is appalled by this; You don't joke with ...

Detectives Fellner and Eisner investigate a death in the homeless scene. It looks like routine, most likely a quarrel about money or alcohol has lead to the fatality. A second killing grows doubts, and a much more sinister story unfolds.

Club operator Timur Kerala considered himself the rising star in the Ludwigshafen security business. But before he can beat the top dog Gerhard Arentzen out of the field, Kerala is murdered. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern suspect competition in the milieu. Arentzen is not impressed by the events - because government agencies are outsourcing more and more security tasks to private service providers, he has excellent connections to politics and is unassailable. What, in turn, does not impress Lena Odenthal: When Kerala's ex-wife and daughter are threatened, Lena ...

After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first girlfriend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hitchhike with her to the legendary Jimi Hendrix performance on Fehmarn. After an argument, however, Susanne disappeared without a trace. Borowski had tirelessly tried to explain the disappearance. What was a gloomy suspicion at the time is now abruptly bitter certainty when the forensic doctor Kroll unequivocally identifies the corpse. More determined than ever and ...