S4 • E14 Dec 2, 2015 45m
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Hubert and Staller are called to rescue a pitifully screaming cow that has strayed into a nearby moor. But there is no trace of the lost animal. Instead, the police make a gruesome discovery - the body of a young woman. Strangulation marks on her neck immediately suggest a crime. Initial investigations also reveal that the victim did not die in the moor, but was dumped there as a corpse. During the investigation, residues in the victim's shoes are also found, leading to a nearby farm. In addition to an elderly couple, the unpleasant landowner Manfred Weiss and his wife Helmine, who is severely affected by a stroke, their son also lives on the farm with his wife and child. To Hubert and Staller's surprise, Helmine Weiss is heavily incriminating her own husband. On a chalkboard, her only means of communication, she accuses him of murder in front of the police. But can the words of the old and confused woman even be trusted? Then the investigators receive the shocking results of the autopsy: The victim had recently become a mother. Expecting the worst, Hubert and Staller search the dead woman's apartment. But there is absolutely nothing to indicate that the young woman was pregnant and had given birth. The investigators also find no evidence of a partner or the child's father. Even after a conversation with gynecologist Dr. Haider, who also knew nothing about his patient's pregnancy - she hadn't been to see him for over a year, Hubert and Staller remain in the dark. Haider, however, considers it possible that the young woman had a miscarriage or had an abortion outside the legally permitted timeframe. But even the most horrific of all possibilities, namely the possibility that the child was also the victim of a crime, is something Hubert and Staller can no longer rule out. When police colleague Riedl reports his colleague Sonja Wirth missing, everyone fears that she, too, has fallen into the clutches of the murderer.
