CSI - Germany

[ams16]

I just thought this was funny:
Police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
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[lehser]

I did too.

(You'd think that the absence of amelogenin (gender marker) in the profile, plus statistics, would have made them skeptical. But maybe that's too us-centric.)

[ams16]

Why would it be missing a gender marker?

[lehser]

Sorry, I was imprecise. My memory is that amelogenin is actually a y-chromosome marker.

[fairdice]

Even better! - German police chasing a rare female serial killer!

[hauntmeister]

Oh, that's funny, and both happy and sad at the same time.