in Cleebronn by a man wielding a sledgehammer. On 22 July 1985, 26-year-old Wilfried Scheider was found shot dead in a parking lot in Beilstein-Schmidhausen. He was shot with a Walther P5 pistol, a common police issue pistol. The victim's car was found at the scene of a bank robbery in Spiegelberg. Investigation The subsequently formed SOKO "Hammer", whose headquarters were in the Bottwar school center, led the largest operation in West Germany's post-war period. In the next four months, 540 clues were investigated and 1,400 people questioned. On 5 July 1985, the lead police station in Stuttgart publicly announced on the Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst program that they requested help from viewers. After the show, in which a movie was used to reconstruct the previous murders and raids, the criminal police did not receive any decisive information from the public. It is believed that Poehlke's wife had seen the broadcast. On 29 September 1985, while searching a Ludwigsburg railway station for bombs, anti-terrorist officers found a police uniform in one of the lockers. The uniform was traced to detective chief superintendent Norbert Poehlke, a veteran officer of 14 years in Stuttgart. Poehlke said it had been left there after a quick change for a family member's funeral. Police became suspicious when they discovered no recent family deaths, but that his daughter had died of cancer in 1984. The investigation was picking up when, on 14 October, Poehlke requested, and got, some sick leave. Several days later police went to his home to ask him some questions regarding the murders and robberies. With no one answering, and fearing Poelhke had fled, the police entered the house. What they found was Poelhke's wife shot twice in the head in the bathroom and in one of the bedrooms was his son Adrian, also shot dead. Three days later, on 23 October, Poehlke and his other son, Gabriel, were found shot dead, a clear murder-suicide, in his car at Torre Canne, a village near Brindisi, Italy. Poehlke's pistol was confirmed as the murder weapon in the murders, and the case was closed. In the media Prominent German screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer, together with Elke R. Evert, wrote a book titled The Hammer Murderer in 1986. A documentary novel was also written, and a play based on the case was made in 1989. A feature film , starring Christian Redl and Ulrike Kriener in the lead