WaPo Berlin

Olympic athlete Dagmar Ehwald is found dead in the water on the Grünau rowing course. The 35-year-old athlete had recently qualified for the Olympics in the coxless pair with her partner Juliane Spieker. But what was gained was quickly lost: Dagmar Ewald subsequently tested positive for doping. Now she appears to have been beaten to death. Juliane Spieker insists on her innocence, even though her former teammate's doping scandal will most likely cost her the Olympic qualification she has trained so hard for. She is already back in training with a new partner.

Selda Bektas, frontwoman of the successful Berlin breakdance crew "Berlin Beasts," is found dead in the Spree River. Fahri is particularly affected by the girl's death because he knew Selda. For years, he has been training young people in his spare time at the Berlin youth club Prisma, which is run by Fahri's best friend Tom Naber. Selda Bektas' death quickly turns out to be a homicide—and that means Fahri is biased.

A baby is found in a tub in the reeds of Lake Wannsee—just like Moses. How did the child get there? The WaPo Berlin discovers that the little boy comes from a wealthy family and has been kidnapped. But when it comes time to hand over the ransom, the kidnappers don't show up. Jasmin and her team take a closer look at the Heppendorfs—and uncover more and more dark secrets...

After a dead body is found in Lake Stößensee, the WaPo is called in. It is clearly a case of murder. The first lead takes the WaPo team to young Clara Richter, who has a small child and is just about making ends meet with her canoe rental business. A DNA test identifies the dead man as her boyfriend Stefan Sibelius. Only, this person does not officially exist. What kind of life did this man lead, and who killed him?

An extremely unwelcome guest in the middle of the swimming season is the start of a crime that leads investigators from the Berlin Police Department into the world of exotic animal owners and smugglers. Even though the victim's best friend, Karsten Steiberger, emphatically stresses that this is primarily about important breeding programs, it soon becomes clear that illegal animal smuggling is a million-dollar business.

Stephanie Lindner, a pharmacist from Köpenick, is shot dead at close range on her waterfront property—anything but an ordinary case, because Dr. Jan Conrad, forensic pathologist at the Berlin Police Department, hears the fatal shot from afar and finds the body. The victim was his best friend! Why had she called him early in the morning shortly before her death and insisted on meeting him? Jan is more than shocked, and her husband Markus, who was financially dependent on his wife, vehemently denies having anything to do with her death.

A car veers off the road and ends up in the water. The driver is found dead. There are indications of third-party negligence. When it turns out that the driver had presumably kidnapped a woman who has now disappeared without a trace, a race against time begins. Can the WaPo find the unknown woman in time? And who is Markus Rost's murderer?

Finally, vacation! Together with Makoye, Wolf repairs the roof of his beloved arbor overlooking the Havel River. But then, right in front of his allotment garden colony, the contractor Oswald Renger is found dead in the water. Murdered, as Jasmin and her team quickly determine. Was he in the wrong place at the wrong time and fell victim to a junkie mugging? At least he didn't seem to have any enemies. Or did he?