Crime scene: The second confession

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The second confession
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 94 minutes
classification Episode 51 ( List )
First broadcast May 11, 1975 on German television
Rod
Director Wilm ten Haaf
script Michael Molsner
production Peter Hoheisel
music Arpad Bondy
camera Werner Kurz
cut Margret Sager
occupation

The second confession is the 51st episode in the crime series Tatort . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode on 11 May 1975 was the first program of the ARD broadcast for the first time. It is the sixth case of Chief Inspector Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The episode is about the murder of a young woman and a related arson on a farm.

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The farmer Leo Koczyk is imprisoned on suspicion of murder of his sister-in-law and arson at his own farm. The night before his trial he got into an argument with his cell neighbor Huber and confessed to the murder of his sister-in-law. She wanted to blackmail him because she knew that he had set fire to his barn himself in order to receive the sum insured. At the start of the trial the next morning, the public prosecutor's office had already learned of Koczyk's confession from Huber's testimony, who indignantly denied his confession. Veigl and Brettschneider are called in to question Koczyk by the public prosecutor. Brettschneider remembers the investigation after the arson, Koczyk stated at the time that neighbors' children set fire to the barn, Koczyk's sister-in-law Thea had confirmed Koczyk's statement at the time. A few weeks later, Thea was found dead. On the evening of her murder, she had meanwhile left the pub where she worked and never came back. Koczyk, who had seen his sister-in-law that evening, got entangled in contradictions at the time, and various tire tracks on his bicycle were found at the crime scene; these indicate that Koczyk must have taken his sister-in-law to the later crime scene on the bike. Koczyk's statements in the arson case also turned out to be false.

The witness Otto Tamm was able to testify that he had seen Koczyk on a bicycle with Thea on the evening of the crime. Veigl then spoke to Tamm's boss, the entrepreneur Mergentheimer, who had arranged to meet Thea a few hours before the crime. Thea let him in on her brother-in-law's insurance fraud and wanted a deal with Mergentheimer. If he gave her the seed capital for a nightclub she was planning, she would have been willing to put pressure on her brother-in-law to sell a piece of land Mergentheimer was interested in to him. She talked about having evidence against her brother-in-law. With this deal, Koczyk would have been financially done, which was also revealed by the subsequent house search through the documents seized there. Veigl had doubts because the main witnesses Mergentheimer and Tamm both had an interest in Koczyk's field, but Koczyk was arrested on the basis of the overwhelming evidence.

Veigl continues to investigate even after Koczyk's apparent confession. He asks Ms. Koczyk, who is currently flirting with Otto Tamm in the village restaurant, about her husband's confession, who thinks it is absurd, in particular that Koczyk should have admitted that his sister-in-law wanted to sleep with him. Veigl learns from the innkeeper that Ms. Koczyk has been seen with Otto Tamm more often since her husband was arrested. Veigl and Lenz take a look around Mergentheimer's brickworks, where they find out that Otto Tamm has been demoted and that production is being switched, Tamm seems pretty relaxed. Veigl is more than suspicious that the production changeover, which had to take place because Koczyk's property was not purchased, happened so suddenly, and obviously the company must be doing very badly. Veigl's colleague Gerber visits the senior boss, Mergentheimer's father-in-law Egkbert, in Baden-Baden. This says that he decided to switch production a long time ago and only let his son-in-law in, but not Tamm. In order to spread unrest among the suspects, Veigl has the crime reconstructed on site. It turns out that Koczyk's bike is defective and that he could not have been at the scene at the time of the crime.

Veigl looks for the company's new technical manager, Schermann, who says that the changeover had been planned for over a year and that only he, Egkbert and his secretary, Ms. Schmalzl, were in on the act. Veigl asks Ms. Schmalzl, who had informed Otto Tamm about the change in company on a company outing. Lenz then shadowed Tamm, who heard Schmalzl's statement. Tamm throws various letters at the post office that the police intercept; he had sent them to himself in poste restante. In one of the letters, Veigl finds a letter from Thea to Mergentheimer, in which she says that she herself had seen her brother-in-law set his barn on fire. Now Koczyk has to sell his property to Mergentheimer. Tamm obviously wanted to hide this letter because he feared a house search. Veigl looks for Koczyk in prison and shows him the letter, who admits that he had set fire to the barn and that Thea had blackmailed him, but denies the murder. He had let himself into Thea's blackmail, he had only confessed the murder to Huber so that he would leave him alone and not abuse him any further.

Veigl goes to Tamm and shows him the intercepted letter. He had overheard the conversation between Koczyk and Thea and intercepted Thea on the evening of the crime and asked her about the arson. He urged them to come to an agreement with Mergentheimer instead of Koczyk and to urge Koczyk to sell the property in order to save the company and his own position. However, Thea refused to hand Tamm the letter with her testimony. He then strangled Thea to get the letter. Tamm lets himself be led away by Veigl and his team without resistance.

Audience ratings and special features

When it was first broadcast, the episode achieved a market share of 51.00%.

Veronika and Lisa Fitz, who play sisters in the film, are aunt and niece in real life.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre: “Despite the Bavarian color, no hammer”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The second confession at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: The second confession short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 3, 2015.
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