This perpetrator is incredible. She commits in 16 years, six murders and at least 40 serious crimes.
Times broke into a caravan and there can lay a half-eaten cookie. Then she sucks at welding a vault at a water bottle that she forgets at the scene: the phantom killer.
The "UWP" - said the police jargon for an "unknown female person" - whose genetic fingerprint is then always be secured with cotton buds depends 25th April 2007, the then 22-year-old policewoman Michéle K. with several shots to the head in a parking lot in Heilbronn downright out.
In the backseat of the police car, investigators secure - as always with the cotton swab - the DNA traces of the unknown. Superintendent Frank Huber (41), head of the Special Commission "parking" can they match meticulously with other cases. The result?
Six more murders: the pensioner Lieselotte Sch. in Idar-Oberstein, 1993, at which early retirees Joseph W. Freiburg 2001, three Georgians in Heppenheim in January 2008, to Diana P. Weinsberg in October 2008.
Attempted murder: In May 2005 we find the DNA on a bullet in Worms. The injured man was silent.
Robbery: In April 2008, the DNA is backed up after the attack on a Vietnamese diamond dealer in Arbois (France) on a toy gun.
A series of burglaries and car thefts in Germany and Austria.
Drug abuse: After an injury to the DNA is secured to the phantom woman in a syringe in a wooded area near Gerolstein.
A total of 40 crimes that can not be different. Crime scenes, which are far apart. "The enormous Deliktbreite makes it impossible to create a sharp profile," even concludes Soko-Chief Huber. Despite never come doubt that they all go to the account of a phantom killer. Too strong is the belief in the infallibility of DNA evidence.
And identify the investigator with a huge effort: from 700 women suspected, the police can take saliva samples. Without coming to the ominous perpetrator on the track. Initial doubts about the quality of the cotton bud traces of the forensic pathologist said Professor Bernd Brinkmann a year ago. But when the investigators to find a hearing.
The Puzzle of the offenses with identical DNA evidence on which they constantly add new cases, provides the investigator before new questions. Heard the "UWP" for organized crime? Possible. A Transsexual? Conceivable.
More than 16,000 officers overtime to build the now six special commissions on this - until the case due to escalating congestion must submit to the LKA.
But until a chance find in the Saar brings the embarrassing reversal. There, the DNA is the body of a burned applicant secured. And what can be found on the swab? The DNA of a woman. You must have come early as the production on it.
Because of the DNA belonged to the series perpetrator. The police fell for cotton buds. And so the Saarland Attorney General Ralf-Dieter Sahm can so far not dealt with the case - say that it is the "UWP" does not exist. Which is always - no, not the gardener, not a phantom killer. The murderer is always a cotton swab.
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