Overview
- The new episode premieres Sunday at 20:15 on ARD, marking Charlotte Lindholm’s on-screen return to the LKA in Hannover after her Göttingen stint.
- The case revolves around a Romanian seasonal worker found decapitated on a bio‑apple farm in the Altes Land, initially treated locally as a machinery accident despite the missing head.
- With LKA teams diverted to a missing‑child operation, Lindholm proceeds largely alone, riding a regional bus, improvising forensics with freezer bags, and relying on a reluctant village officer.
- Coverage underscores tensions between organic and conventional growers, debates over glyphosate and biodiversity, and the economic pressure on small farms, including recent health findings affecting agricultural workers.
- Reviews describe a Poirot‑style barn gathering that caps a classical puzzle, generally praising the craft while calling the episode thematically crowded; reports also signal a new partner, Minna Schaum (Luise von Stein), in Lindholm’s next case.