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...Liquor Hilde" who made her living picking up elderly men in bars, going home with them, then drugging and robbing them. Not long ago, before getting down to work in a pigeon's apartment, she and he paused to watch West Germany's favorite TV show, Aktenzeichen: XY . . . Ungelost (Case: XY . . . Unsolved). Suddenly, to her horror, the program began to dramatize her own racket and displayed a mug shot of Hilde herself. She snapped off the set, but it was too late. Although her victim failed to recognize her, one of his neighbors did. The police were alerted...
...presents four to six such real-life, unsolved crimes. Ninety minutes later, Narrator Eduard Zimmermann returns to the air with a progress report that is often amazing. Two of the six cases depicted on the April show, for example, were cracked that same night. In its 21-year history, XY has solved 81 of the 164 crimes it has presented...
...Daniel Hugon was being tried for strangling to death a 61-year-old prostitute. His lawyers cited medical evidence that the 32-year-old drifter had required psychiatric care at 17, attempted suicide five times, and suffered from chromosome abnormality as well. His genetic allotment was XYY rather than XY, and the defense sought acquittal. The prosecution asked for five to ten years. Despite Hugon's genetic imbalance, the jury decided to give him seven...
...chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains a Y chromosome, the baby gets that plus an X from the mother; the potent male Y overpowers the single X, and it's a boy -normally, XY...
...than the average (about 18). But among their siblings there was an unusually low incidence of criminality. And in the only case so far reported of an XYY with several children, the abnormality was not transmitted: an Oregon XYY has had six sons, but all have a normal XY pattern...