Murder by the Lake
Two homicide detectives - one from Austria and one from Germany - have to share jurisdiction and work together to solve dark and mysterious cases set against the picturesque backdrop of Lake Constance.
Genre: Crime
Cast:Matthias Koeberlin , Hary Prinz , Stefan Pohl , Nora Waldstätten , Fiona Neumeier , Inez Bjørg David , Peter Kremer , Christopher Schärf , Alina Fritsch , Martina Ebm , Raphael von Bargen , August Schmölzer , Ingrid Mülleder , Roland Niko Venturas , Stephan Kampwirth , Maria Simon , Philipp Hochmair , Harald Krassnitzer
S1.E1 ∙ Das Rätsel der keltischen Maske
Two detectives investigate a mysterious murder. After getting close, another one happens. In each murder, killer leaves a Celtic mask near the body.
S1.E2 ∙ Familiengeheimnis
A forester is found in his cabin near death with rabies in his system and 100,000 euros.
S1.E4 ∙ Die Braut
Following local custom after a wedding, bride Maja is "abducted" by a team of friends and placed blindfolded in a small boat. Her groom is then dispatched to find her in a rowboat, but he discovers her murdered and propped against a tree. Her veil and ring are missing. Various suspects seem possible, including a young couple who form a society to prevent the killing of a flock of cormorants that next next to the lake, and a fisherman whom the couple suspects of being the bird's killer. Jule, the young woman suspect has a history of violence and a past sentence for murder as a minor. Zeiler finds her father's life jacket in a collection of items retrieved from the lake and preserved by Maja's mother in remembrance of Maja's twin brother, who was drowned as an infant during a storm. The fisherman, Meinert, dies when Oberlander visits his house. He fires his shotgun at the wall, and the recoil apparently causes him to tumble backwards down a flight of stairs and a broken neck. Items found in his house eventually point towards the reason for Maja's murder and the actual killer. Oberlander reconciles with Kim .
S1.E5 ∙ Abgrundtief
In lake Bodensee a chained, 'waxen' teen girl corpse is found with Down-symptoms, identified as Marie Häusler, 15 years missing since she turned 18. Her mysterious disappearance haunted her father Manfred who, after her mother's suicide, married Marie's favorite home caregiver, Jasmin Häusler, whose brother, a retired cop, kept searching 'illegally' ever since. Bothersome Marie was far from popular, especially with crone Christine Ludwig, whose home she burnt down. Micha Oberländer is personally concerned, having lost a small son, and with partner Hannah Zeiler, who is inspired to revive the stuck search for her father, unearths dirty secrets in both family and home for mentally handicapped, including several crimes.
S1.E6 ∙ Der Wiederkehrer
Micha Oberländer investigates the fatal head-shot of Johannes Leitner on "Galgeninsel" with the service of Hannah Zeiler, who lies unconscious besides the corpse. She sought privately to let him clarify the fate of her father, but was followed and knocked down. *Hannah's former mentor Ernst Gschwendner assumed suicide, but later suspects Hermann Zeiler may still be alive. As the dirty truth is unearthed, Oberländer must conclude to change Hannah's life permanently and it's truth time for the Zeilers.
S1.E7 ∙ Die vierte Frau
The dead body of a woman is found in a hops field - presented by the perpetrator hanging in a spider web on a seven meter high scaffold. It is not the first case of this kind: apparently Jutta Reike is the fourth victim of a serial killer. Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler find out that the victim doesn't correspond physically to the pattern of the other homicides. Is this the crime of a copycat? When a swimmer is run over brutally by a motorboat on the lake, a surprise is awaiting Zeiler and Oberländer: they find evidence in the car of the victim Dietrich Falkner, that he might be the sought-after serial killer. During a house search trophies of the four victims are found. Everything seems to fit, until Zeiler and Oberländer find out that the trophies of the fourth victim are false. Now it is obvious: there must be a second murderer, who not only killed Dietrich Falkner.
S1.E8 ∙ Der Stumpengang
As they adjust to changes in their own lives, Hannah and Micha investigate a murder case involving love, loss and revenge.
S1.E9 ∙ Die Meerjungfrau
A woman is found dead in the costume of a mermaid on the shore of Lake Constance. Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler target a surfer clique and the ex-husband of the murder victim.
S1.E10 ∙ Fluch aus der Tiefe
A diver is murdered after recovering a box of gold coins from Lake Constance.
S1.E11 ∙ Der Blutritt
After a gruesome murder attempt, Zeiler and Oberländer investigate in the vicinity of a horse stud.
S1.E12 ∙ Der Wegspuk
A long forgotten curse seems to resurface when children witness a murder in an old and deteriorated mansion. Detectives Zeiler and Oberländer need to investigate the past in order to uncover the truth.
S1.E13 ∙ Der Seelenkreis
When a baby is found floating inside a wicker basket on the lake, Oberländer and Zeiler suspect a connection to an older case of a missing woman. The strange symbols painted on the sheets the baby was wrapped in give them their first lead.
S1.E14 ∙ Das zweite Gesicht
A disturbed young woman shows up at the police to report a murder she claims to have seen in a vision. Oberländer believes it to be a hoax, but Zeiler is not letting go of the matter. Few hours later, the man described is found dead.
S1.E15 ∙ Unter Wölfen
A wolf roaming the woods causes unrest among the population and attracts dubious characters to Lake Constance. When one of them, a trophy hunter, is found dead in his self-made wolf trap, detectives Zeiler and Oberländer are called upon.
S1.E16 ∙ Nemesis
While Zeiler has still not returned from her vacation, Oberländer has problems getting used to her replacement, the resolute Detective Hoffmann from Vienna. But soon a complicated murder case forces them to cooperate.
S1.E17 ∙ Der Nachtalb
Detective Oberländer, plagued by nightmares and strange visions, falls under suspicion of murder himself.
