The 'Phantom-Killer' Swab Story

With all this hyped-up business on Covid-19 and the true or faked tests....I am reminded of this terror incident in Germany from around ten to fifteen years ago.

So, in the early days of CSI-stuff in Germany....DNA tests started to get popular.  They'd come to a murder scene....do the swabs, and look for evidence. 

Several cases around Germany suddenly popped-up, which led to ONE single killer.  This worried the police.

In one case, a break-in of a cottage had occurred, and a swab was done....showing DNA and a witness had said a person appearing to being 14 to 16 years old (a female) was there and had left. The swab test?  Matched the murder count.

Suddenly, the police got all hyped-up.  Teenage serial killer?

A female policeman was murdered.  Swab test?  Led to the same DNA.

So a task force was organized.  Various murders were laid out.  Timelines, locations, accomplishment, etc.

One cop looked at everything, and just said 'no'....it can't be the same person.

So he takes a couple of DNA test kits....bust them open, and swabs thin air (nothing).  He sends them off.  A week later, results come back....it's the phantom-killer. 

He lays out the evidence.  The police authorities are questioning this whole mess.

So they ask the DNA test kit company....who makes your swabs?

Well....it's a company down in Austria. 

So they go drive down.  Here is a rather small operation...maybe a dozen folks who prepare and make swabs in general.  Here are big bulky Austrian women who are in the manufacturing process, sweaty from the summer heat and perspiration dripping a bit, and grabbing up a thousand of these swabs in their arms to throw into a bag....which goes to some company which has a secondary use for them. A swab is a swab in their mind.

The cops stand there....shaking their head.  All this effort over three or four years....all leading to a phantom-killer who was branded as a 14 to 16 year old girl.  All faked-up.

The DNA test kit company?  No one says what happened to them, but I would guess that they folded up and went out of business. 

I look at the Covid-19 testing business, and kinda wonder what kind of people run it, and their trusting nature.