Spuren: Season 1, Episode 1

1 - 1: Ein Dorf sucht

Stefanie Berghoff from Buchingen had been missing for 17 hours when the Lauburg police station began their search. Detective Chief Inspector Barbara Kramer and her colleague Thomas Riedle coordinated the search along the young woman's jogging route. The longer they searched, the more important it became to secure evidence, find witnesses, and prevent the many volunteers around Berghoff's husband and father from trampling on evidence. When the young woman's body was finally found in the forest, she had already been dead for 72 hours, killed by violence, the murder weapon unknown. Forensic medicine and forensic science began their work. The evidence was thin, and the investigative team led by Barbara and Thomas was expanded to a special task force.