A gruesome find at the Leipzig slaughterhouse: the remains of a human being are found in the stomachs of several pigs. The trail leads SOKO to Jakob and Sylvia Hüsken's organic farm. The couple are shocked at the news.
Stefan Tebo, managing director of a software development company, lies dead in his exclusive apartment. Only his laptop is missing. His partners in the company are shocked, but obviously know more than they tell SOKO.
15-year-old Sandy falls to her death from her bedroom window. She lived in a therapeutic residential group for young people. Was it suicide or was she pushed down? Her roommates are the first to be suspected.
A perfidious poison attack is carried out on Verena Siebert. She only survives because her stepson Kai finds her in time. The contact poison came in the mail in an inconspicuous advertisement for perfume.
A grisly find is discovered in a parking lot: a severed hand. The hand is from a young woman. Is she still alive or has she been the victim of a crime? A phone number written on the back of the hand leads to Carola Wenzel.
The Leipzig crisis advice center asks the police for help. A man named Volker has repeatedly announced on the phone that he will commit a triple murder. Jan Maybach realizes that Volker's threats are to be taken seriously.
A dead rocker leads the investigation into the strictly closed world of the motorcycle gang "Thunderbolts", which also operates a branch in Leipzig. The biker friend Ilona Weiß refused any information during the interrogation.
After the murder of tax consultant Birgit Breukmann, SOKO Leipzig investigates on a delicate mission: the victim came directly from a swingers party. Ina Zimmermann and Jan Maybach take part as an undercover couple.
A security guard is found shot dead in a warehouse. He must have caught the perpetrator in the act of breaking into a self-storage box. Inside, investigators found a dozen open and ransacked boxes containing old Lienhard financial files.
Young investigator Vince Becker watches an erotic chat show on Internet TV in the evening. He witnesses how a colleague of his chat partner Annabelle collapses live in front of the camera. Vince immediately informs the emergency services.
A murder in the Leipzig JVA causes unrest. Yuri Klopek is found stabbed to death in the prison laundry. The murdered man is the son of boxing trainer Walter Klopek, who is also imprisoned there and is the leader of the cell block.
The daily show program in the western town "Saxon City" comes to an abrupt end when Arthur Maschwitz, who plays the sheriff, collapses in a duel, fatally injured. The blanks in the Dueling Pistol have been swapped for real ammo.
The student Nora Beier is found murdered. Her body shows signs of torture. Along with her fellow student Liane Hellmann, she worked for an escort agency while she was studying. The boss of this agency refuses to release her customer file.
Investigator Jan Maybach has become the victim of a perfidious intrigue. Liane's testimony weighs heavily on him. It all looks like he pursued Liane as a stalker and shot her boyfriend out of jealousy. Jan is taken into remand.
After a book premiere party, the young writer Henriette Bach is found dead in the basement of the Leipzig Literature Institute. The young woman died chained to a sauna heater in the heat.
The daily drive to kindergarten takes an unexpected turn for investigator Ina Zimmermann when her son Paul sees a chimpanzee on the street. Ina follows the animal, which flees into a completely devastated laboratory.
One night, 15-year-old Niklas Kriewall disappears without a trace from the hospital where he has been treated as an inpatient for several weeks. The investigators initially assume that the boy was kidnapped.
The remains of a male body are found during construction work in the center of Leipzig. Investigations show that it had been there for around 20 years. The man was killed with a knife. The identity can be determined via the tooth image.
A luxury restaurant is ambushed by a group of masked youth activists. They want to demonstrate against the sale of their district to the wealthy. During the action, a guest of the restaurant is stabbed with a steak knife.
The financial advisor Henning Baumann is found murdered in a forest near Leipzig. Two weeks earlier he had been reported missing by his much younger wife Cora. Was he kidnapped? But why wasn't there a ransom demand?
In a suburb of Leipzig, 17-year-old Leon Köster dies in a fire in a garden shed. It is an assassination attempt because the doors were locked from the outside and the fire was started.
25-year-old Alexa Demski and her baby are missing. Her parents are very worried. Under the kitchen furniture, the investigators find the remains of carefully wiped away blood that can be clearly assigned to Alexa.
At night, the remote house of the retired couple Miriam and Hannes Wagner is broken into. Hannes Wagner kills the burglar in self-defense. The investigators find out that the alleged burglar was a private investigator.