Germany's most wanted.
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The most wanted criminal in Germany is a female serial killer, whose crimes include the murder of a policewoman, 13 other murders and 40 other crimes in total.
After years of getting no closer to catching the killer, the police have now come up with the theory that the DNA samples they have found at crime scenes linking all these cases may have come from a woman working at the factory that makes the DNA testing kits.
Doh!
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888126,00....
It makes you realise there is a potential for huge balls-ups with the blind faith that is put into DNA evidence.
After years of getting no closer to catching the killer, the police have now come up with the theory that the DNA samples they have found at crime scenes linking all these cases may have come from a woman working at the factory that makes the DNA testing kits.
Doh!
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888126,00....
It makes you realise there is a potential for huge balls-ups with the blind faith that is put into DNA evidence.
According to a report in our local german rag, the supplying company was not even told that the swabs they manufacture had to be DNA sterile, or for what they were to be used.
The cotton buds were stuck on in China, the sticks came from Malaysia, and the kits all put together in Germany, and then irradiated, which apparently kills bacteria etc but not DNA (and supplied for use in swabbing for bacteria and virusses (virii?) in health inspections for restaurants or similar)...so the general feckup was pre-ordained....no wonder that DNA reliability scepticism is rife!!!
The cotton buds were stuck on in China, the sticks came from Malaysia, and the kits all put together in Germany, and then irradiated, which apparently kills bacteria etc but not DNA (and supplied for use in swabbing for bacteria and virusses (virii?) in health inspections for restaurants or similar)...so the general feckup was pre-ordained....no wonder that DNA reliability scepticism is rife!!!
Baby Huey said:
After years of getting no closer to catching the killer, the police have now come up with the theory that the DNA samples they have found at crime scenes linking all these cases may have come from a woman working at the factory that makes the DNA testing kits.
Sorry but.....anonymous said:
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As a tool DNA testing can be useful but it's not like CSI where the results are always 100% conclusive for or against.I was reading that in the U.S. the FBI have stopped independant testing of their system because some reporter tested it and got several "acceptable" matches for crime scenes to his and his co workers DNA .
Deva Link said:
Kraut Cop said:
The things were double-packaged, we thought they were the Mercedes of cotton swabs
I can see where they went wrong.Lucky escape for the lab worker - in Britain they'd have probably have been convicted and be in jail now.
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