Auf Wieder-Slain

Auf Wieder-Slain is a case featured in Criminal Case as the one-hundred-eighteenth case of the game. It is the third case of the game's World Edition (Season 3) and also the third case to take place in Europe.

Plot
Carmen Martinez and the player were ordered by Chief Ripley to head directly to Bierburg, Germany to protect a movie star named Hans Vogel during Oktoberfest. There were beliefs previously that the Promethians would use Oktoberfest as a front for their heinous agenda. Carmen and the player were too late as Hans was found impaled to death on a cuckoo clock puppet pole, halting any hopes of a peaceful Oktoberfest.

The team had to ship Hans's body to Angela Douglas before continuing their hunt for the killer liable for crashing the German tradition. It turned out to be a hunter named Johan Schnee who killed the movie star.

Johan believed that true friends keep secrets locked within, but when Hans opted to tell Mayor Nagel the truth before Bierburg, he wasn't too thrilled about what Hans planned for Oktoberfest. Johan's secret was that his brother was murdered years before Hans became a famous movie star--to which Johan claimed he killed him by accident. Johan buried his brother in which Hans promised not to tell anyone albeit he lied in front of Johan. Johan had to silence Hans before he had a chance to spill it out at the Bierburg Oktoberfest. Carmen felt that no one should be afraid of such cruft Johan threw in, so the player shipped Schnee to Judge Adaku for trial.

All Johan did was admit to Judge Adaku that Hans also wanted to out information leading to the arrest of the Promethians, but the cult wouldn't allow it, so Johan obeyed the cult in which he did. Johan gets 25 years in jail with no parole for homicide, but like the last case and the case before, an audit was necessary.

Johan politely asked the team to check out the black forest for the truth behind his brother's murder. After careful examination of the skull in the wishing well, Angela determined that Hans was the one who killed Johan's brother and not Johan. Johan still had to serve his jail sentence for Hans's murder though. At the self-same instant, a vase with clues leading to Greece required Brother Klaus to be locked up and interrogated by Marina Romanova leading to the arrest of the Promethians. Klaus didn't cooperate as usual, and used a magic spell to slip through Marina's fingers without being noticed.

Chief Ripley then ordered Marina to issue a warning to all local police departments throughout Europe to be on a lookout for Brother Klaus, with the player instructed to head to Greece for the next call.

Victim

 * Hans Vogel (found impaled on a cuckoo clock puppet pole)

Murder Weapon

 * Clock Puppet Pole

Killer

 * Johan Schnee

Killer's Profile

 * The killer drinks beer.
 * The killer had military training.
 * The killer listens to German music.
 * The killer is 6 feet tall.
 * The killer has blue eyes.

Release Notes

 * As with Off With their Heads, Johan Schnee's profile changes from normal clothing to prison clothing to denote that per the game's canon, he was interrogated moments after his arrest to find leads as to why Europe has been embezzled in a series of violence per Chief Ripley.
 * The developers got the title wrong practically. In some nations, it's titled as being Auf Wiedersehen, which is German for "Until we meet again".  The proper German pronunciation is said to be Auf Wiederschlagen, which is German for "Kill into it".