Word: dna
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...second time in a week, DNA evidence has led German police down a dead end. "Are the heads of our police stuffed with cotton wool?" asked a headline in this week's Bild newspaper. The Phantom is now considered the most embarrassing lapse in German DNA analysis...
...police thought they'd been looking everywhere. But it turns out they should have been looking down - at the cotton swabs they were using to collect DNA samples. On March 26, German police revealed that the cotton swabs they use may have all been contaminated by the same worker at a factory in Austria - and that the Phantom of Heilbronn never existed...
...murderer dubbed the Phantom of Heilbronn had been baffling German investigators for two years. The criminal was a rarity, a female serial killer, and a very busy one: police had linked DNA evidence from 40 crimes - including the infamous homicide of a policewoman in the southern German town of Heilbronn - to the same woman...
...Police had found her DNA on items ranging from a cookie to a heroin syringe to a stolen car. They had put a $400,000 reward on her head. Profilers from around Europe were called in to help hunt her down. The police even consulted diviners and fortune-tellers in hopes of discovering her identity. The papers declared the case "the most mysterious serial crime of the past century." (See pictures of fighting crime...
...that guy could get shot and pass away, and then the name he's got on his shirt isn't necessarily the right one. So we would try to collect these clues and sort of hint at who they may be, but of course we couldn't do any DNA-testing. That happened back Stateside...