Never Too Late for Justice - Season 2 (2017)

A corpse found in a clothing bag beached up in the Berlin sewer system is identified, thanks to Benjamin's hobby expertise, as 2004 early fashion model Luise Graf. She disappeared after wrecking her career as designer Marc Bäumer's label face by falling vomiting on the catwalk and was instantly replaced by another street-casted nobody, who quickly left the business. The team focuses on the 'couch casting' and ruthless rivalry between the ally cats to become fashion queen plus Marc's PA and partner Patricia Kunkel. Benjamin also coaches Rufus when Samira finally ...

A girl's corpse, died from ahead wound, found during renovations of a plant nursery where she crashed trough a greenhouse, is identified as Miriam Gördes, a rising tennis star like her buddy Silke Behrendt during the Boris Becker heydays, who disappeared in August 1987, aged 17, just after prolonging last-minute her contract with top manager Martin Duve. Team Mertens uncovers her pregnancy played a key part in a web of couch casting, blackmail and killer competition. Rufus's dedicated puzzling secures a crucial blooded glass fragment.

A mummified male corpse in a renovated Weißensee (ex GDR) heating plant is identified as one of the Wöllner siblings, who went missing in 1991, when the Treuhand took control of East German state companies in need of private modernizing, in his case HiFi production. The case revolves around conflict interests between the former communist party secretary, his Western investor and the siblings, involving jealousy and corruption. Young Benjamin's flashy research and interest stuns for such an old case, and he helps Henrik cover up his back pain. Rufus is frustrated how ...

Lothar Kosing's fatally-shot corpse is found during gardening in Berlin's Friedrichshain cemetery. In 1985 he was a StaSi 'Romeo-Agent' who seduced secretary Gertrud Singer to get CIA info. In 2015 he returned from his Saxon ex-GDR home and was murdered in Berlin. The police team painstakingly contacts his former Berlin Stasi superior, Heinrich Rulf, and equally retired CIA-Agent William Baumbach as well as Gertrud Singer, who landed in a mental asylum, hart-broken, with a devoted, overprotective son Frank Singer, who proves key.

Rufus's charges accidentally smashed the jar containing a thus-damaged human heart in the university's anatomical exposition, so he brings it in for informal repair. Samira thus discovers it contains a broken-off piece of metal, the cause of death, which isn't listed In the record of the collection, which is managed by Katrin's former mentor, Prof. Richard Hein (former GDR), whom Henrik and she soon find to be hiding the full story. The identity of the corpse must have been falsified, and Benjamin's research links it to the Nazi concentration camp medical and racial ...

Human foot-remains on farmer Stefan Lobeck's estate near Berlin show his pigs devoured a corpse. He withdrew there alone since his beloved Thai wife Nutcharin returned to her family's rural province, years ago and never heard of again. However he met her in Bangkok, where his married businessman cousin Jens Lobeck frequently spent more money then his firm's interests required.

A skeleton found at the demolition of a Berlin common 'Schrebergartenkolonie' dates from 1944. Benjamin Kuttner's brilliant research shows Henrik Mertens and Stoll the way to identify it as Gustav Krohn, a decorated resistance member, who helped people -notably Jews- escape Nazi persecution to flee abroad, but was killed, without recorded trace. He belonged to a shady tiny resistance cell, must of whose members were caught and executed by the Gestapo. Entrepreneur Jochen Maibeck wealthy son of one of two survivors, is reluctant to give the team any access to the ...

During the 2006 football world cup match Tunisia-Ukraine in Berlin, Bernd and Nina Weyer's spoiled-rotten tomcat brat Lilly disappeared, leaving her model big brother Paul a hopeless 'susbstitute', until her corpse is found near the family home, but it was moved from a forest. The forensic team's reconstruction, co-starring an ant colony, proves painful, for Mertens due to his back condition, for the Weyers as it unearths marital troubles. Katrin also suspects the aupair, who wanted to turn Lilly into a girlish princess, and Bernd's PA, whose family assistance went ...

Near a former GDR 'People's Army' camp is found the corpse of a fatally shot young compulsory cadet corps member. He was officially reported drowned during a lake accident in 1986. The team reconstructs his last days, when everyone agreed to cover up a fatal shooting on the last day 'culmination' of a training bivouac, when practice blanks were 'mysteriously' replaced with live bullets. Forensics prove that was a set-up, leaving his unwitting buddy traumatized for life to hide an anti-revolutionary rebel's brutal fate and the communist regime's brilliant web of lies ...

A long-frozen corpse is painstakingly identified as Hermann Suttner, on police informer whose cover was broken while he posed as money launderer offering to exchanging D-marks about to become worthless after the introduction of the Euro into diamonds. The team traces the murder to jailed bank robbers Jürgen Zoch and Dirk Bolter. When part f the cash loot is found, it points to the kidnappers and murders despite ransom of Dr. Katrin Stoll's kid brother Konstantin. Rufus warns his mentor Hendrik that his spot may soon be declared vacant unless he risks spinal surgery.