SOKO Wismar

- Season 11

(2014)

Work at wind mill park "WisWind" lays bare the skeleton of skull-smashed biology student Corinna Löwe, missing for a year and a half, so far presumed just taken off, as her parents received postcards from Sweden, now found fake. Corinna was an environmental activist, with besotted roommate Piet Wegmann, opposing this mill as a threat to endangered bats, the only opposition for Rolf Mühring's firm, but also had a secret fling with him. Corinna's stepfather Dieter Löwe, with whom she often rowed, sent ma Marina the postcards.

The city wonders about the anonymous "Wunder von Wismar" who keeps making generous anonymous gifts. Retired real estate entrepreneur Erich Meissner seems drowned, but it's staged, with blacks and blues, while he had terminal pancreatic cancer. Heirs by default are younger wife Fritzi Meissner and son Phillip, whose mother got nothing in a divorce, and he's a failed businessman. Erich Meissner regularly contacted teen punk Ricarda Jellen, an odd rebel choice, whose part proves no less significant then the safe key Dr. Helene Sturbeck finds in the victim's stomach.

Old Gunnar Süder alerts the police in panic, having found an unidentified male corpse in employer Friedrich Lindemann's locked-up but unforced undertaker mortuary, with three deadly neck stabs. Besides them, only fellow employee Thomas Mühsal, who is late after a night excessive drinking, have keys, none admits any knowledge. Police facial ID software recognizes the victim as Richard Dankert, who was buried eight years ago, but his coffin found empty except for stones. Freshly fresh widow Hannah Dankert and wayward son Jakob, Thomas's party buddy, claim to be equally ...

Wismar 'polar bears' (all weather outdoor swimming) club member Annette Rabe lies on the beach, skull-smashed. She recently took 20 000 Euro in small change form her ban account, probably blackmailed. Annette was fatally involved in the attempted escape by boat from the GDR to the GFR of her friend Miriam Horn in 1985, so Reuthers team digs up the dirty StaSi past on their loved ones.

Patrick Rotendorf was insanely jealous, now wife Nina's corpse is found in the docks. Patrick accused Nina of adultery and she did have sex, but not with a man. Nina and mentally handicapped juvenile Melle Hansen spent much time with their dogs, but Nina's is missing. Nina actually had an affair with Melle's big brother Markus Hansen.

Jeweler Jörg Wilkens was fatally shot in his treasury. Shortly after, fresh widow Carolin Wilkens is found cuffed in her bedroom, apparently by robbers, who seemed acquainted with the locations. Young employee Lisa Heintze could have tipped off her ex-con brother Kevin about firm practices. Wilkens and collaborator Anke Hauser were in suspiciously frequent phone contact, which may have rendered her husband Toni Hauser fatally jealous.

Young Jana Gassmann arrives in the precinct, reporting she escaped by playing dead after five days kidnapping in a mobile home, by a man who allegedly stalked her long before, which she never reported, nor anyone her as missing. The cops soon realize nothing from her story quite checks out, finding none of the vehicles she mentions nor the abductor, despite a robot picture made while she almost flirts with most understanding Niels. People who know her don't trust Jana Gassmann, a gruesome discovery awaits.

Entrepreneur Uwe Erdmann was fatally stabbed at home, probably by someone he knew and let in. He invested in promising innovative firms and sold with huge profits, yet nobody is eager to discuss his deals. A nosy neighbor noticed an unidentified burly man coming around repeatedly. Niels and colleagues find out Erdmann forced his partners to sell him share, having a cahoot to threaten them or even their loved-ones, Björn Koschinski vandalized his own nursery in an attempt to become uninteresting as prey. Fresh widow Doreen seemed only interested in Uwe's income.

Strolling on the beach, Walter Krug finds fatally shot young Dr. Thomas Regling MD, whose father professor Dirk Regling is an old friend of chief Reuter. Holger Vogt filed an unsuccessful complaint to have ended in a wheelchair due to a surgical error by Thomas Regling, but he and wife Annette Vogt filed an appeal. A clinic colleague recently threatened Regling by e-mail, and e had a secret affair with a doting nurse, who covers up his dark secret. Walter Krug insists he saw a dark car drive away, but no trail is found.

Elvis imitator Jürgen Schmitt was poisoned in Horst Rafalski's furniture job, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, through the flask he received from his generous widow girl friend Elsa Wenning. The agency was way behind with several artists' payments. Tax official Schmitt however enjoyed a living standard way beyond his wages, including a new sports-car. It was among the liberalities of his senior 'private fan' Elsa Wenning, to son and heir Schmitt Daniel Wenning's obvious fury. Yet Jürgen played a double game, even on two continents.

Ella Fürnberg calls the police when her ex Thomas Metzeler, father of their kid daughter, doesn't answer the door on his custody day. Timmermann finds him in the basement terrarium, boxers-only and covered in bruises and his pet snakes, but those constrictors are innocent, as marine biologist Klaus Wieland assures innocent before autopsy shows he was smothered with textile. Thomas was recently fired from Peter Heinelt's reptilian show, where he collected snake excrement, which a lab confirms contains parasites proving most were illegally caught in the wild. Metzeler's...

After the first hot date in years with his Hamburg ex Leonie Buchwald, Nils Theede wakes up in a hotel room next to her murdered corpse. Only at autopsy he realizes the victim is a lookalike, although Leonie never even mentioned a sibling. The other members of his former Hamburg band are also in town, including her husband Richard Buchwald, whom she planned to leave for Nils. The team identifies the victim as her at birth separated twin sister Inka Wolf, adopted and raised without telling either by infertile couple Hans-Peter and Sabine Wolf. Nils draw a drastic ...

A Hansabank employee gets a cardiac arrest during a robbery, which yields only 3000 Euros, the culprits leave by Oldtimer motorbike, like only pastor Helge owns in Wismar. Retired crime mind Hansen Hansen cashed checks there shortly earlier and is late for a police interview, due to relatives begging his help with a most illegal problem. Former Wismar constable Lars Pöhlmann ends his Interpol training early, being dispatched back home on a mission to bug a yacht in the harbor, where organized crime is to meet planning the illegal import of protected wildlife, wood and...

While leading a team to disable a British bomb, expert Werner Jugert is killed as it explodes. An anonymous e-mail claims it was criminally manipulated, but is later found a mere knavish prank. Meanwhile his colleague finds the fatal error most improbable for such a well-reputed pro. Jugert's wife Tamara stresses he fell in last minute for Jens Klante, who was diagnoses with food poisoning, but both hide a secret.

City financial officer Astrid Reinders was fatally stabbed with her kitchen knife. Even husband Axel Reinders, a traveling salesman, claims ignoring she moonlighted in the bordello runs by Reuters' ex, Hella Morgenroth. Haughty daughter Saskia's wedding plans with a posh doctor might be compromised if the pimping became known. Someone anonymously called the emergency services, but without reporting anything. The team digs up adultery and blackmail.

Sonja Buscheck was fatally shot. She had just sold a legendary set of poem manuscripts to her great aunt Josefine Heyer, the lover of the "Red Baron" Manfred, the ace of Great War German air force who shot down allied planes by the dozen, by him. Expert Manfred Steinhardt paid her 50 000 Euro the evening before, but the cash is missing. Shortly after he's knocked down, the manuscripts stolen. Great war fan constable Timmermann's research helps the team see trough sets l-of lies then and now.

Ruud Jonker, a director of the Dutch central bank in Wismar from the half-yearly German-Benelux informal monetary summit, was skull smashed on the beach, and carried 50,000 Euro cash, now missing. He was personally given the VIP treatment by luxury hotel manager Wolf Baumgart, yet Ruud visited his predecessor Sandra Carstensen, who was fired for alleged malversation and became an alcoholic shortly after Jonker's previous summit attendance in Wismar. Hotel maid Anneke van der Meer, also Dutch and assigned to wait on him, suddenly resigns, but is found out an off duty ...

Inge Lojewski finds her terminal elder brother Hans dead in bed, the undertaker spots a fatal injection spot in his back. Inge's son Theo confirms Hans wanted euthanasia. Inge Lojewski was devoted to her brother, who carried her on his back despite advise to leave her behind as 'as good as dead' during the 1945 flight from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) while the Red Army killed their parents, events he was obsessed by, collecting all possible documentation, which only gymnasium student Maja Dold showed interest in, but it turns out the collection contained a hidden ...

Thomas Holtmann was fatally stabbed in the pub where his ex Irina Stern held an elaborate post-friendly divorce party, complete with male stripper Harald Kern. The decapitated marzipan groom on the cake suggest recent beef. Specialized agency "Happy End" event planner Natalie Krüger secretly had an affair with Holtmann, whom she called often, even at night. Businesswoman Hannah Stern, Irina's mothering sister, badly scolded Holtmann during the party. Freddie Mücke, gay Harald's fellow beach lifeguard and Irina's jealous new lover, also attended.

A group of cycling tourists' organized Baltic coast route, organized by specialized event planner Caro Malchow, would have been a blast without blunt eternal whiner and stirrer Bernhard Metternich, who suddenly collapses, vomits and dies on the spot, as turns out from massive kitchen salt poisoning. Dental surgery left him unable to smell anything. Tired of his constant rudeness, wife Barbara Metternich openly flirted with single Markus Bölling. Adolescent Oliver Rauscher, the only who rather got on with Bernard, takes surprisingly strong offense at his divorced ...

A male corpse in a ditch has a South African driver's license on the name of Peter Moller, a local reported missing 20 years ago by his teacher. His odd, isolated mother Bianca Möller claims to utterly ignore his whereabouts and return, but never showed interest and reportedly neglected the boy before his disappearance. Peter's wife, who inherited her South African shipping company, says he planned to visit his mother for closure. On extended honeymoon, Peter, Maria and her less competent maternal half-brother Ruid de Vries sailed on a yacht to Wismar, where the ...

Private school 'Leonardo' teacher Uta Schmidt has a deadly car crash, due to sabotaged breaks. Over-ambitious parents campaigned to have her fired for 'not challenging the kids enough': "Frau Schmidt muss weg". An anonymously posted video, from the masked "weißen Ritter" (white knight), shows their plotting against her. The team unmasks the night and finds the expensive school was in financial trouble while principal Jana Prinz made Uta collect annual fees in advance. Meanwhile family troubles are also uncovered.

Popular Ricardo Prahl was skull-smashed in the retirement home where he brilliantly performed a year of social service. He was found in his room by ex-con resident Hilmar Wiesel, the buddy of grumpy, former strict chemistry teacher Dr. Gernot Sieveking, who caused Lars to repeat a year in grammar school. Although he thoroughly hated drugs, a large stash is found in Ricardo's room, and it definitely looks like he sold it in Berlin clubs. His ex-junkie girlfriend may have relapsed, her grandmother and guardian is also a home resident. Lars and colleagues dig up some ...

Matthias Henschke is found with slit wrists in a house being demolished. Over a year earlier, he and cahoot Jan Weber brutally and unprovoked beat up Nele Neumann, he recently ended his jail term. *His bloody head wound proves no suicide, but murder. Nele Neumann wants revenge, remaining traumatized, but also overprotective ex David Meinecke for their stress-crumbled marriage. Henschke's accomplice Jan Weber also threatened him by phone.

Young Sarah's corpse is found in a lake, but actually died in a car crash and was clumsily dumped. She went missing during the youth club's "Geländespiel" which she left after a row with other participants. Around was noticed a red model airplane, which she allegedly followed. Local 'weirdo' Karl Wagner possesses such one, and it was the passion of her long-gone father. The car paint trail from the crash leads not to Wagner but Mike Reichelt, who has a conviction for an earlier 'hit and run' car crash, which links surprisingly to Sarah's father.