The Lost Child (5/49)

The Lost Child (5/49)

Unnoticed by the outside world a person was held prisoner in an apartment and only found at last after many years of martyrdom. This is how the press reports the case. Following the murder of a 67-year-old man, Munich's Detective Inspectors Leitmayr and Batic and Superintendent Menzinger make a terrible discovery: the severely handicapped 31-year-old Hans, tied to his bed, vegetating away in his parents' apartment, cut off from the outside world. Hans has not been registered, he never went to school. Superintendent Menzinger, acting on a hunch, found Hans after hearing strange noises in the night. For the press the case is clear: 30 years of torture and imprisonment - then the son avenges himself on his own father. A medical report confirms that Hans could be capable of committing such a crime. But Hans' sister Sabine discovers that an antique clock is missing from the apartment. Was it a case of robbery with murder after all? The police officers search the antique shops. A clock answering to the description was indeed sold - but two years ago and not by an elderly man but by a foreigner. Leitmayr comes to the conclusion that the relationship between father and son was by no means what it appeared at first glance, for Hans loved his father...