Synopsis

Doing a good deed just before Christmas Eve is a job for Hubert and Staller! They visit the pensioner Hannelore Eissner, who has not paid her radio license for a year. So that the 85-year-old doesn't get in trouble, the district has collected the missing amount for the senior citizen. However, the elderly woman can no longer be happy about the donation from the police - she is sitting mummified in her armchair and has been for some time. It quickly turns out: The Christmas decoration in the senior citizen's house is from last Christmas! For a year no one had noticed the old lady's death. Pathologist Dr. In view of the stately age of the dead, Fuchs initially assumes a natural death. So it is not a problem that Staller spontaneously says goodbye to a pre-Christmas shopping holiday in Rome after the corpse was found, which he won in a Christmas raffle in the district. But no sooner is Staller sitting on the train than the sobering news comes: The elderly woman has a broken neck! Who put her in her chair in this state? In addition, 400,000 euros, which the old lady withdrew from her account shortly before her death, disappeared without a trace. A robbery shortly before Christmas Eve, that doesn't fit the Girwidz Police Department at all! But Girwidz's trouble is just beginning. When he wants to pick up his unloved mother-in-law from the train station, a Santa Claus rushes down a hill on his sleigh and barely misses his car. The mother-in-law has to wait, the police council brings the injured Santa Claus to the hospital. The wounded man is Georg Obermeier, who was reported missing by his wife a year ago. When Hubert entered the hospital with Katharina Obermeier, her husband disappeared again without a trace. The two remain perplexed. After work, however, another surprise awaits Hubert: 16-year-old Anna, who claims to be his daughter, is standing on his doorstep. He can't bring the young lady to the door and allows her to stay with him first. This, of course, leads to some complications. DNA samples have now shown that it must have been Obermeier who broke into the dead pensioner a year ago and snatched the 400,000 euros. But who broke the pensioner's neck? And why does Obermeier appear again, disguised as Santa Claus, exactly one year later, and then disappear again? The trail leads to the regulars' table of bank advisor Franz Hübner, postman Josef Brenner and butcher Michael Schartl.