SOKO Stuttgart - Season 8 (2016)

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After unemployed ITC expert Jochen Kappler calls Hanna Lohr's nocturnal radio talk-show to announce his suicide, his corpse is found at home, but it's staged: murder by poison. Jochen Kappler's financially struggling step-father Heinz Mahlmann, who calls him a parasitic loser, rowed with him the night before over cash. Study friend Hugo Stange was trough with his sponging. Radio presenter Hanna Lohr and devoted studio technician Nils Boden recently paid Jochen Kappler his share for the radio format, which they originally developed as college project, yet were ...

Neo-Nazi Hannes Jansen is the prime suspect of the death of Kenyan Carolyn née Wanjiru, having been observed around where her last walk ended as corpse in the river Neckar. Denying a racist hate murder, he points at Carolyn's colored walk escort, Sammy Pendo, whom she knew in their Kenyan birth town, since two months the guest in Stuttgart -nearing visa expiration- and lover of Teresa Seide, who may have grown jealous but has an alibi, unlike Carolyn's German husband Holger Stübner, who was quite hard-handed. An airline booking puzzles the team.

During daily morning yoga, entrepreneur's widow Natalie Bauer is fatally skull-smashed with a statue and found by stepdaughter Pia Bauer and her fiance Rolf Geusen, who runs the family but ignore the identity of Chloe, who is mentioned repeatedly in Natalie's agenda. The team identifies her as 'aura-reader' Chloe von Tretten, who promised Natalie Bauer 'life coaching' after her husband's death. Fingerprints reveal unemployed art trader Niklas Vollmer was her lover since weeks, but has an alibi. Rolf Geusen and Pia Bauer feared she was squandering their future ...

Shortly after his release from prison after eight years, René Olschewski is fatally shot. He had been caught fleeing after killing a watchman during a heist, for which accomplice Henry Maurer turned himself in while Gabi Endress was shot on the run by then commissioner Friedemann Sonntag's rookie and friend Theresa Engelhardt, Olschewski's girlfriend, who claims never to have contacted him since. Friedemann was her alibi, but now doubts. Now wealthy Henry Maurer may have used the never-found loot as seed money for his business. Magda Endress, Gabi's close granny, ...

Joe is suspended with pay pending investigation of the luckily not life-threatening shooting of his buddy and as turns out self-righteously overzealous informer Karl 'Schrotti' Schrothmann. Kaiser personally teams up with Rico to investigate the nocturnal bleeding to death in his own workshop of Stuttgart's loner world-renowned doll-repair-expert, who has a finger cut off, apparently to force him to tell the combination of his safe, which was not robbed of its treasure, a doll after the childhood likeness of emperor Wilhelm II. He was found by ex-con deliveryman Uwe ...

Emma Bukowksi and ex-commissioner Friedemann Sonntag, a regular customer, find her sister Ilse Hofer skull-smashed in the petty groceries shop the seniors run together. It was broken into and ransacked, but not actually robbed, and Ilse's companion, Harry Klein, suggest it's out of control vandalism, part of real estate speculator Jonas Läpple's campaign to make local owners sell out, even if that takes rude methods, like arson, which he can't prove in his home. Rico Sander's efforts discover an incriminating e-mail between Ilse Hofers and Läpple, but nor proof. Harry...

The corpse of Erik Pabst, a member of the Stuttgart survivalist club, is found in their bunker, so the team must investigate the 'prepper' scene, which few Germans know about. Timo Höger recently had a hefty row with the victim, his rival to succeed the club president Erik Pabst, whose wife Laura had an affair with the Timo, who has a special interest in their kid son Ole. Reporter Andrea Oellers joined under cover, as research for a book on the preppers, who she blames for her paranoid father's suicide some weeks before. The victim also found out that Philipp ...

In dance school Wörbel, sponsored standard dance society "Rot-Blau Wechselschritt" star couple dancer Caro Petermann dies from an electrocuting sabotage in the dressing room, as turns out not the first suspicious 'accident' fitting bitter rivalries for the sole spot in the prestigious public competition. All female members now hope to replace Caro as partner of fresh widower Hannes Petermann, the most talented.That goes mostly for former professional Sarah Kortner and shy club seamstress Melanie Schultz. Dance school owners Dietmar and Vera Wörbel are in financial ...

Pop label StuggiBeats' managing co-owner Alexandra Wagner is skull-smashes, a priceless slide E-guitar was stolen. *Rocker Jan Kilmann, who found her, was threatened to be dumped by the label, but claims that's bluff. Rising street artist Finn Bruckner, Wagner's last appointment, is penniless. Jo checks him and girl friend Elli Friedrich out. Kilmann's alibi falls trough. Label co-owner Tanja Degen couldn't convince Alexandra to join a larger Berlin label. One-Way-Flugtickets to New York expose the killer.

Contractor Albert Behrens and daughter Anja Rühle are killed with a hunting rifle. Recently fired alcoholic Olaf Munzinger, a passionate hunter, point to Anja's humiliated husband Andreas Rühle. He has a solid alibi, but may have 'traded murders' with season ticket stadium-neighbor Daniel Sperber, to create alibis, even though Daniel's victim Elmar Kesten survived. The team finds this theory hard to prove, but extremely urgent when they set a risky trap.

Miro Hauser nears the end of his year in jail for stabbing Selma. In his juvenile prison, abusive jailer Gernot Pröll, a feared brute who beat Miro and others in hospital and dealt in regular contraband and hard drugs, is murdered. *He protected long-jailed fraudster Max Welfert against violent abuse from jail-mates, for which Max's wife Tamara 'paid' him in sexual kind, which Max claims to ignore. Warden Ina Hausmann left Pröll and his dirty business alone, having been hostages in a prison revolt took Ina and Pröll earlier. Miro Hauser must have known more and ...

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Smart Home entrepreneur Adam Hell's kinds Gerrit and Joelle are kidnapped. The abductor had enough IT know-how to hack the SUV by remote. Their divorced mother Sonja Meyer claims she lost sole full custody to Adam due to fancy lawyers and fake incrimination, and has no alibi. Adam's former founding partner and the It inventor, unconventional idealist Fynn Cassen, who sold out refusing to cash fat profits, is on her side but has a jogging alibi. The abductor used a tracking-module and a missing drone, which Rico tracks down. Adam's Ukrainian housekeeper Alina Domzol ...

A historic city center tourist tour guided by Elke Kettler stumbles in the market on the corpse of fruit trader Hans Dörfler who was moved after a fall, pushed stairs fall. He planned to pas his firm and sought-after market permit on to daughter Simone and her partner Florian Hoss. Caviar trader Erik Setzkorn hides dark deals with him. Simone recently left her father's home after a fight over her refusal to dump ex-junkie Florian. Hans Dörfler had but probably hid his terminal cancer. Simone's presumed-dead mother is identified by her former housemate, Rico's ...

Murdered fitness club-owner Martin Keuerleber's polyamorous contacts are investigated, staring with fresh widow Stefanie Keuerleber, as neighbors believe their marriage was ailing with violent fights. Polyamorous neighbors Luise Bergmann, Mark Schildt and Daniel Mommsen suspiciously try to hide, Martin wrecked their art cafe dream by withdrawing his investment. All three confess having murdered him alone, neither is believed, yet two must be proven innocent. Rico's personality model algorithm gets them to talk: Daniel lacks MO know-how, Mark recently threatened the ...

For weeks Daniel Pflüger was celebrated as the hero who prevented Paul Behnisch being beaten up, now he's murdered. The jailed street thug's mother Jana Rühle blames Daniel Pflüger for her son and herself being stigmatized. Paul Behnisch, still healing in hospital but crippled and financially wrecked, asked Daniel in vain to set up insurance fraud. Daniel Pflüger had an affair with his boss Marek Hofmann's wife Sonja, whom he demanded to get a divorce.

In Waldfriedhof, jogger Sabine Dombrowski is fatally shot. She planned to sell the house which husband Mike Dombrowski, in financial trouble, couldn't afford to buy out, leaving him homeless- now he inherits everything. Marion Herting, whom he sold a poor-coverage cheap insurance, blames both spouses as Sabine convinced her. Equally bitter is local forest cemetery cable car conductor Xaver Brunner, whose long carcinoma-affected wife Heike died after her insurance was canceled.

Private eye Roland Wilhelm was fatally stabbed, the corpse burnt in his car. The heir, youthful-bullied brother Markus Wilhelm, runs with wife Bianca an ailing book shop, she's also a night cleaner. Roland Wilhelm was hired by the under-staffed tax office to investigate fraud suspects, including night-lifer Klaus Bühler, who has an alibi: Helga Fischer's nightclub annex brothel and illegal casino. *Wilhelm found out Markus and Bianca spends beyond their official means, from her actual night job in the brothel. His papers also contain a file on commissioner detective ...

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