SOKO Stuttgart

- Season 9

(2017)

Bastian Hölzner's partner Bea Klemm is fatally electrocuted by the T-Bone-Kings-Grills, a model she invented, due to contact sabotage during a commercial demonstration in Helge Scherbaum's grill market, in the presence of grossly aggressive animal rights activist Hanna Kraven. The lucrative patent was disputed with Scherbaum, who refused to sell fast but cheap and already invested heavily in the product. Bastian feared Bea planned to emigrate, unable to leave his sickly, dependent and meddling mother Erna behind. Scherbaum's fingerprints are found on Bastian's laptop,...

Pizza baker Toni Kröger is found skull-smashed in his food truck, opposite his former employer Franco Motta's permanent pizzeria Sagittario, which lost a third of its business to him and his partner Sebastian Hirschberg, a somewhat parasitical mate since childhood. The competitors' vandalism-tainted feud culminated in sabotage of Franco's son Paolo's motorbike, which landed him in hospital until recently. Toni meanwhile resumed his affair with Paolo's wife Olivia, who claims having dumped him again but is soon after hospitalized for a knife wound. Rico works out, ...

Retired Günther Pfeifer's corpse is found in his home freezer. Prof. Wolter presents the case to her forensics students, but the thermostat is sabotaged, plausibly by one of them. Notably assertive Svenja Reuter's spineless mother, Ursula Reuter, was his partner while colleagues at the college mess. Pfeifer's probably last contact was his alleged biological son -according to the late mother- Frank Köster, who was filmed using his card in an ATM posthumously. Shielded by teen home minder Wilhelm Häberle, Frank only to have found and hidden the corpse. Ursula admits ...

Due to car trouble, captain Michael Kaiser accepts hospitality in a Benedictine monastery, but everybody is woken by the discovery of the fatal fall of the abbot, who was beaten and pushed from high. Novice Gregor, a former junkie, expected to be expelled but now hopes the probably succeeding prior Ignatius may let him stay. The pub and brewery which sells the abbey beer Klosterthaler under an exclusive contract might loose it, rendering innkeeper Katharina Ziegler suspect, and a masked man sexually harassed her waitress Tanja Schramm, who wounded her assailant. ...

Hagen Busch was fatally stabbed at home with a kitchen knife. A neighbor heard a row with his last visitor, umpteenth date Mara Scheidhauer. .Andreas Funk, managing owner of national leading dating site "WaLi", recently fired Hagen, a top counselor, after several warnings for unexcused absences. Hagen recently dumped lover Franziska Probst, who believed him her true love for whom she dumped Manuel Boland, the father of her kid son Matti, who also has a row with Hagen. Joe and Rico -who consults the cloud backups as his PC is missing- work out Hagen serially dumped ...

Mirko Schrader was fatally skull-smashed in the firm he inherited with his brother, CEO Ronald Schrader. Only now h confides into Joe's team that Mirko's wife Mona was abducted a week ago, the 2 million Euros ransom paid but so far in vain. Former employee Torben Bilic had a motive for both: Mirko fired him and refused decent compensation after an accident on the job severed his hand. Chief secretary Ilka Wiesner was adulterer Mirko's lover. Ronald refused to buy out Mirko. Suddenly Mona Schrader is released, the ransom remains missing and she lies to protect her ...

The morning after his stage goodbye as transvestite singer Zarah Lola, Laurent Leclerc's corpse is found in his "La vie en rose" drag club dressing room, badly staged as suicide by pills OD but skull-hit with a champagne bottle causing a fatal brain hemorrhage *Minority shareholding co-founder Ernst Fengler, stage-name Kiki, was stage-overshadowed by ZarahLola's protege since three months, young Victor Millet alias Victoria Divine. Laurent's romantic partner Boris Vasic's share in the testament was largely to be transferred to Victor Millet whose Alsatian past is ...

Stuttgart suburb innkeeper Bertram Lochner, a terminal long patient, confesses the ax-killing 'in self-defense' of his adult son Günther Lochner, a near-uncontrollable, unpredictably aggressive screw-up lush, who compromised the family business. The team and autopsy soon find the whole family is lying, notably about a witness among them, and all have motives. Brother Marcus Lochner, the reputed chef who is to take over at Bertam's death, gave an ultimatum for the removal of Gunther, who sexual intimidated his shy sister in law Theresa. Both brothers were physically ...

Archery athlete and ailing center manager Falko Haller is fatally heart-hit with an exclusive carbon arrow. He's found by his brother and training partner, champion Sven, blind a few years since they had a car accident. Fresh widow Marie rowed with Falko over their financial problems the evening before. Huntmanship author Malte Färber, single father of archery pupil Senta, about to publish again, was photographed by Falko while poaching. Sven recently learned that Falko covered up causing the crash. Marie may have known about Falko's affair with Senta. But there's a ...

Commissioner Jo(achim) Stoll stops to what seems a regular car crash, only to be held hostage at gun-point. *He and his team -which he manages to inform sneakily- soon realize his abductor, Gunther Rinn, freaked out having stabbed a man that morning and set out to find his wife Karla, who recently left him for the victim a while after his career went down the drain. While the chief mobilizes men and a helicopter, Jo sort of wins Rinn's limited confidence, preventing worse at Karla's buddy Heidrun Mehringer's place, comes to understand him and seeks the mildest outcome...

Resident Heinz Kehl's corpse floats in Altenheim rest home swimming pool. Someone stole Kehl's big winnings as dealer of illegal poker in the nearby cellar in which participated addicted Ursel Vogt, the seniors spokesperson, who was romantically involved with him and his clever roommate Lorenz Bruckner. However Bruckner's priority was devoted to his contraband cahoot, community service-paroled orderly Adem Jahovic. Home manager Ariane Boetsc was being blackmailed. A trap is set, with elderly precinct janitor Jan Arnaud undercover as new resident.

Recycling firm owner Peter Frühling's corpse in found on site, apparently fatally smashed and skull-crushed by a huge paper ball. New widow Marion seems barely concerned, procured manager Hartmut Berger points out his boss was often absent since the broke return from Canada a month earlier of twin brother Günther Frühling to Stuttgart, in a cottage rented by Peter who also regularly booked luxury hotels in town. Also sighted was recently paroled ex-crime partner Franz Siegert, who went to jail alone while the twins's identical DNA rendered evidence inconclusive, but ...

Chief of surgery professor Dr. Gunske's throat is expertly, fatally slit by a person in surgical gown and mask who escapes while his team can barely save the patient, so nobody got a good look. He wanted the sacking of maverick rival Irina Brandt, who has another surgery ads alibi. Rico finds romantic pictures in Gunske's home of him with surgical assistant Anja Derflinger, bisexual partner of lesbian colleague Yvonne Schultz, who denies knowing about the affair but has no alibi. Widower Moritz Tennen threatened Gunske for refusing the perform surgery which might save...

Roofer Ansgar Zischler, formerly convicted in fraud cases, made a fatal fall from his roof to his house entry, pushed, and is found by Elsbeth Möller-Wuntram. In the same town and time frame, an inconspicuous retired woman is found after a similar fall in her staircase, apparently unrelated. Zischler and roofing competitor Stefan Juchmann were locked in a grim insolvency trial, blaming each-other. Juchmann's brother and informal guardian since father's dead, Reinhold, is increasingly worried, especially as a smuggled-in moss-wrecked tile suggests he scammed seniors, ...

The day after the first anniversary of the bus crash that killed five high school pupils on the way home in Schullandheim, the acquitted driver, Heiner Grindel, whose attendance was deeply disliked, is found stoned to death besides the commemoration site. Tobias Möhnle threatened the driver, having lost his son, and finding the mother suicidal. Single Lilly Falk claims she has no time for vengeance, raising two daughters. Fresh widow Dagmar Grindel claims to have been strictly supportive. The school-website page for the support group was managed by young teacher ...

In a fresh-dug Stuttgart grave is found the electrocuted corpse of pensioner Anton Engel who cardiac condition made it fatal. Recent fiancee Erika Nolde, who works for funerary undertaker Tibor Heckmann to supplement her meager pension, inherits the home. Engel was seen bickering in the cemetery with an unidentified homeless person. Gravedigger Michl Poll reluctantly admits, after claiming he saw nothing, he sneakily let her spend the night in a service shed, which could cost his job. After photos of her are found in Engel's place, homeless Ingrid Bogus comes confess ...

Alibi agency owner Paul Pankofer was skull-smashed in his discrete office, rented in the beauty-parlor of his ex, Ilona Zoller, who failed to have him evicted as tenant in view of a lucrative deal for the whole building. Among the agency's clients were Frank Härtel and his wife Jutta, who had his fidelity tested, by manicurist Sabrina Werner, who moonlighted in the alibi agency, but Rico finds she and Frank had a affair and she was a silent agency partner, who now expects to continue the business. Student Linus Gerster was the agency intern, with a crush on Sabrina. ...

Farmer Karl Müller's Vietnamese bride since a few months, Kim Nguyen, was stabbed in the field and widely disliked in the village, especially by his daughter Svenja, who calls Kim a gold-digger, who got him to sell land, which he wouldn't consider otherwise. Rico finds her photo on the website of Henry Schneider's spouse search agency, where Kaiser applies undercover, finding it even demands an income assessment. The agency systematically planted Asian women in Vietnamese partner Anuthida "Tau" Lin's restaurant, who pretended to be fresh from Asia as bride, so they ...

Cabaret artist Sven Stetter wins the "Stuttgarter Brüller" competition, but is found fatally poisoned backstage by his sister Monika, who met trough him her boyfriend, his rival, ventriloquist Simon Janetski, the cup runner-up. Their mother Beate Stetter made the poisoned eggnog and wanted Sven to leave the theater to take over from Monika, who ran it so far for pittance, the ancestral family business. Critic and jury chair Nadja Norten did cast the decisive vote for Sven Stetter, despite a bitter private conflict and utter dislike the previous edition, perhaps bribed...

Julius Weber dies from multiple head wounds indicating several beatings and a fall in the garden of his future father in law Maximilian Kohlmeyer's grand villa estate. The retired captain of industry is uncooperative, his in vain)withheld walking cane was used for at least one beating. The victim's brother Frederik Weber also has a motive, Julius's gross sabotage of the first attempt to sell their advertising agency lucratively, and another opportunity is coming up. Frederik's girlfriend, Carla Schmitt, had but claims to have broken off recently an affair with Julius....

Dr. Kraft is found in his office, apparently strangled by a bionic hand prosthesis, his robotics novelties department's specialty. The hand was a custom-made prototype for carpenter Bert Meyse, whom he also operated on for free, as Meyse's exceptionally large hand allowed a crucial experiment. Meyse canceled their latest appointment for the fatal evening. Victim's widow Ruth Kraft recently rowed with him over serial infidelity. His less-brilliant colleague Dr. Rainer Peters benefits from the exit of his major rival for research subsidies. he also discovered that his ...

Hairdresser Marie Ewers was murdered in boss Walter Schmick's Stuttgart salon, whereto she moved to escape financially demanding ex-con gambler ex Mario Renzing, against whom she field a complained. Walter Schmick and his young wife Gudrun took Marie Ewers into firm and home, which earned them customers. Marie however fell in love with their rich competitor barber Thomas Pross, who wanted to buy and run Schmick's salon and denies an affair. Ex Mario Renzing had found Marie who borrowed to pay him off from Walter Schmick, who got her commitment instead to keep working ...

Precinct evidence room official Friedemann Sonntag is duly embarrassed to be found by the team in the natural museum, where he convinced a security guard to lock him in for the night with senior buddies Dieter Ahrens of Max Hagner , as part of last buddy lung cancer-terminal Gerhard Eisele's bucket list, but they woke up next to Swabian entrepreneur Gerhard's corpse. Shortly before, Dieter Ahrens checked in and out of the rehab clinic Gerhard took his addict friend to, and may have acquired the poison to avoid being outed. Junior founding business partner and assigned...

Siggi Arnold, multiple co-owner of an apartment building, made a fatal fatal down the staircase, and was pushed. The co-habitation wasn't nearly as idyllic as it seemed, especially after objections to his plan to take in Syrian refugee families in his empty units, especially from nagging rule-stickler pensioned co-owner Alma Meyer, whose nephew, early-retired alcoholic Hans-Peter Götz, hides with her help moon-shining in the cellar. Tenant Cosima Berger, a social worker, was womanizer Siggi's jealous lover. Recently-notice-given tenant Lars Mäule enjoys a suspiciously...

Law firm partner Franziska Winkler was skull-smashed in the underground parking with a fire extinguisher, which is missing. She was on anti-depression medication for psychic troubles. Her practice ailed. Client André Zauner, a choleric traditional saddler, fakes an alibi, having see her that evening and has a violence record. Rival attorney Katharina Schwartz is caught 'searching for case files' not there in Franziska's office, where the PC contain an unsigned draft for her resignation. They disputed the indemnity claim case of Marlene Hahn, whom Franziska didn't ...

Luxury stable owner Mirko Falkenroth is found hung in his barn, a staged suicide covering up poisoning. Clients considered him Mirko his own major con, arrogant and domineering, gross abusive to staff, especially simpleton ex petty con stable hand Sascha Grollig, whom he recently horse-whipped a scar in the face. Fresh widow Tanja claims she was happy with him, except for debt, until the recent decease of her champion favorite horse, comforted by her cancer-incurable sister Greta Wiese, the stud farm's blacksmith. Veterinarian Dr. Bernd Kranz may have been blackmailed...

Therapist Dr. Hans-Georg Teufel dis from a subdermal drug cocktail, weeks after his jail release. He practiced 'psycholytic' therapies with legally restricted narcotics. Florist Liana Kerner's Tochter Liv died a year ago from such therapy, in exactly the same way as Teufel, and Liana never accepted the death. Hans-Georg Teufel considered making up by offering her half the house, which his son Tobias would otherwise inherit, having lost his healer job due to his father's bad reputation chasing all patients, so he became cabby to pay off his business loan. Hans-Georg's ...

The cops investigate the fatal shooting of vice actress Conny Gerlinger in radio studio where she was dubbing zombie film, but when they inform her husband and agent Christian Tannert, she arrives; the victim was her twin sister Anni, who had take her place sneakily before. Her male counterpart, voice actor Roland Rust, had an affair with Anni, who expected him to divorce his wife, and Rico filters his voice from the fatal record. Synchron studio gopher Karsten Simmle, a fan of the US actress to be dubbed, openly considered Conny disastrously unfit, and found ...

Chief of detectives Michael Kaiser becomes the absurd prime suspect when the shot corpse is found at home of Gunter Helbig, who swore revenge for being convicted for a murderous jeweler's robbery twenty years ago, recently released. Initial suspect is Helbig's former cellmate Edgar Bogner, who ransacked his place, presumably for the never-found loot. Forensic officer Arnaud finds Kaiser's finger prints all over, including on the murder weapon which was discarded not far from the site. Helbig repeatedly threatened Kaiser, who lacks an alibi as he evacuated his wife, ...

Kaiser is even more obviously, less implausible, suspect when Gunter Helbig's former cellmate Edgar Bogner's corpse floats in the river Neckar, just after declaring he saw Kaiser leave Helbig's home in the murder night. The team hopes to prove a double set-up. Edgar Bogner's naive pen friend turned financially supportive partner Nele Gerster was frustrated he didn't come trough romantically. Helbig's brother Ulf Schenk and his wife Sabine fail to cover up Edgar attacked her, demanding the hidden jewelry loot. Kaiser goes trough his old cases with Friedemann Sonntag, ...