Principal Bertilsson lives a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that he is hiding a million kronor in his basement. Money of a successful bank robbery.
Fuhrmann's colleague Dr. Wehninger has abducted her deceased father from the pathology department to her home in order to prevent an autopsy, and it is only with great difficulty that Fuhrmann manages to persuade her to turn back. But it's not that easy to get to the hospital with a dead body without being recognized. Fuhrmann himself remains stubbornly confrontational, especially when it comes to Dr. Böck, and even more so since it turns out that Böck and Fuhrmann's ex-wife are expecting a child together. Assistant Dr. Winkler encounters unexpected difficulties when he discovers that the prosector's assistant and the mortician are engaged in a lively trade in corneas from deceased patients. They are not about to let this business go to waste without a fight.
The closed campus of an experimental university on Russian Island. Student Sonya Kimaeva returns from abroad to the academy's dormitory to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend. But during the time that Sonya was absent, the situation has changed dramatically, and now excerpts from the personal diary of the deceased, replete with shocking details, are in the hands of students and teachers. Every day, more and more new secrets of students and teachers of the Academy become known to everyone, thanks to the anonymous blog "Your big secret". And this element cannot be stopped.
Beirut 303 plane explodes over the shore of Lebanon, turning the lives of the few who survived into a quest of truth filled with mystery and suspicion.
The year is 1979. The apartment of a famous ballerina has been robbed in Moscow. The housekeeper was killed, the intruders fled. Investigator Anokhin offers his friend, journalist Yeltsov, to help in the search for criminals. At the same time, a high-profile bank robbery is taking place in Yerevan, which is being carried out by a specially released bear swallowtail. At first glance, the two cases seem completely unrelated. Plunging deeper into the investigation, special correspondent Yeltsov realizes that he has found a conspiracy, the bloody threads of which stretch to the highest echelons of power.
None of the operatives voluntarily wanted to go to work in the new district of Vaselkovo, cut off by the railway "ring". Four "shot down pilots" were found in the department: Yegor Ozhogin, who began to drink frequently after the death of his wife, Anatoly Davydov, whose hussar adventures did not please the authorities, Mikhail Belsky, who carried out a successful and profitable operation with financial assistance, and the naive orphanage boy Sergei Matyukhin, who regarded his appointment to the department as a promotion.
A story of a selfish woman Aman who always sacrifices the happiness of her children for her desire. Aman has one daughter and one son who have married. Aman's son-in-law wishes to work in a foreign country, but he doesn’t have the requisite money for travelling to abroad, so then he forces his wife for money to go abroad but when she asks her mother for it, she puts in stake the happiness of her son by playing with the lives of her daughter-in-law.
Lieutenant Pereira is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a prostitute: it's the second time a woman has been found with her nose cut off, and a special plant known as a "goosefoot" placed beneath her corpse. Suspecting that the killer is basing his actions on the medieval board game of the Oca Brothers, Pereira asks Professor Rinaldi for help. His insight comes too late however: Tea, a young girl on a pilgrimage with a group of young offenders and their minder Leyva, is found murdered.
Leading forensic profiler and serial killer expert Dr. Bryanna Fox examines the serial killer's path from childhood or early teens when worrying traits first come to the fore, the gradual pushing of boundaries and the disintegration of personal morality, and the culmination to murder or multiple murders.
Though some killings are planned while others are not, there lies a certain pattern to homicide. Rediscover infamous murders as told through the eye of experts, relatives, and the detectives who uncovered the cases. Although some of these killings may seem unpredictable, it's clear that these criminals have all taken the 10 steps to murder.