Germany police found a killer ghost after 16 years of search: it's all about dirty cotton sticks

The scandal ended with a 16-year history of searches by German detectives of a mysterious ghost woman who committed serial murders, robberies and other crimes, leaving abundant traces of her DNA everywhere. The so -called "Halebrobonn ghost" turned out to be a product of the rich imagination of forensics, who used dirty cotton balls in their work.

The experienced detectives of Berlin have been chasing a barlin for one and a half years, who committed various crimes throughout the Eastern Germany and in neighboring states. At the same time, every time she did such things that the detectives could not even determine the “handwriting” of the criminal: she enjoyed the cookies after the robberies, used heroin, and once he was coldly shot by a police officer, being in the back seat of her official car. As it turned out, the mysterious phantom existed only in the imagination of the criminally confused, reports The Monsters and Critics .

Last Thursday, police officials admitted that no sinister stranger exists, since DNA-following cannot belong to a person. The guilt of the dirty cotton sticks that were used to collect genetic material, explained the Minister of Justice of the Earth of Baden-Württemberg Ulrich Goll.

The detectives nicknamed the ghost "Woman without a face" - the serial killer made all of Eastern Europe tremble with fear. It was assumed that her victims became both representatives of youth and people at a respectable age. At the same time, the criminal every time skillfully missed traces.

With the actions of the Ghost Halebronne (a city in the land of Baden-Württemberg), a whole series of murders and robberies committed in Germany, France and Austria was associated. The only evidence that was at the disposal of detectives was the DNA of Fantom, left on the site of 40 different crimes, writes The Times

In search of a cunning and clever woman, supposedly using her thinking for the most insidious purposes, German detectives made thousands of kilometers of the journey. But each time their efforts were in vain, not counting the detection of the next ominous traces of DNA.

In an attempt to defeat this prolonged game in the “cat-mouse” of the German authorities appointed 300 thousand euros (about 407.5 thousand dollars) behind the attacker’s head. And the head of the land of the Earth Baden-Württemberg called what happened "a very confusing story."

Now, in the Federal Criminal Police Office (FCPO), on the basis of existing suspicions, they actively check the version that the “phantom” DNA-continues belongs to a woman whose labor activity is related to the production or packing of cotton sticks. In the case of the wealth of this theory, you will have to review all the work of forensic scientists in six criminal cases of murders, as well as a series of investigations of thefts.

Neither gender

In 2001, in the German city of Gerolstein, a seven -year -old boy accidentally stepped on the used syringe with the remnants of heroin. The find was taken to the police and took DNA from it. To the surprise of the detectives, genetic traces were identical to being discovered in the places of two murders committed earlier.

So, in 1993, a 63-year-old woman was strangled. Traces of the same DNA were found on a coffee cup of a deceased pensioner.

After 2001, DNA-following a mysterious stranger were discovered on the site of four new murders, as well as in the places of two assassination assassinations. Traces of the ghost found after robberies, thefts and robberies. For example, in 2006, detectives found the same DNA on a stone that broke the window of the verandas of the house in Sarabruken.

In 2007, the fame of the ghost reached the climax. Then, in the city of Hailbronne, a 22-year-old woman-policeman was shot dead, and all the same ominous DNA found on the back seat of her patrol car.

“We never established the motive of this murder,” said the representative of the local police Peter Lehner. “At first robberies and theft and suddenly the murder of a policeman does not converge.”

In early 2008, the Ghost again proved himself in the village of Oberstenfeld, which is 15 kilometers from Heilbronne. On the night of April 10, someone burst into a private house in which mother and her three daughters slept peacefully, and stole a laptop, a video camera and other valuable things worth more than a thousand euros. In this case, the same DNA was found at the site of the presuration. And two months earlier, genetic traces of an elusive woman found three Georgians at the place of murder.

In the same 2008, a completely exotic version appeared, according to which the "ghost of Halebrobonn" is a transsexual. The police even spread the male photobot of the alleged criminal. The conclusions of the killer’s belonging to the stronger sex were facilitated by the testimony of witnesses who saw a person at one of the crime sites.

At the same time, serious doubts regarding the existence of a mysterious female fantom arose among detectives after in France her DNA-Preprifications were found on the corpse of a burned foreigner who achieved refugee status.

“This is simply impossible,” said Ernst Meiners, a representative of the General Prosecutor's Office of the German city of Saarbruken. - Since the deceased was a man, and the phantom DNA belongs to the woman. "The secondary examination to find the right DNA on the fingerprints of the deceased also ended in the fiasco.

“This circumstance aroused suspicions that the materials were simply polluted,” Meins explained.

Since April 2008, the forensic experts of the German city of Stuttgart analyzed hundreds of unused cotton sticks, but did not find any source of pollution. The police attempts did not bring the results and attempts to find traces of the elusive killer among employees of various pharmaceutical companies related to the supply of hygienic goods and, in particular, cotton sticks. The failure in a similar investigation was expected by detectives of the German city of Linz.

If the last conclusions of the police are true, it will become clear why the Halelrobron Ghost for so long drove the detectives by the nose. It also explains the “omnivorousness” of the phantom, the DNA of which was found on weapons, cigarettes and even on pieces of cookies left at the crime scene. The multidisciplinary nature of crimes, and their wide geography, also becomes clear.