This is a story about the quality of 'test kits' and why you have to always be skeptical of what you see or think.
Around fifteen-odd years ago in Germany.....we had a murder to occur, and the German CSI guys took out the DNA test kits and took samples. Killer 'X' was established.
A month or so passed.....another murder occurred. German CSI guys did the DNA test kit sample. Oddly enough....it matches up with Killer 'X'.
Over the course of maybe four years.....there's several killings.....which all seem to lead to this one Killer 'X'. In one case....a break-in of a summer cottage, with some description of the person....the DNA kit identifies this teenage girl as Killer 'X' (suggesting from the description.....she was 15 years old).
All of this is worrying the federal police. Maybe fifteen-odd deaths....teenage girl....killing folks. They've invented a name for the person.....the 'phantom-killer'.
One day....some German police detective stood up and looked at everything. Nothing made sense. These were murders across Germany. Nothing connected these in the slightest sense. All committed by a teenage German girl?
He looked a plain regular DNA test kit.....German company. He asks some questions. They come to admit that they pack everything into the kit....but they don't make the swabs themselves. He asks about that.....well, it leads to a Austrian company.
The guy drives down across the border to this swab company. He comes to a small building.....probably not more than a dozen people working there. The only thing they do....is make swabs.
It's a summer day, and things are a bit hot. He walks in and is given a tour by the 'boss'. The 'boss' kinda indicates....they make a lot of swabs....for various folks. At this point of the tour....some healthy Austrian gal more or less walks by....fairly sweaty and carrying a fair number of loose swabs in her hands.
The detective stood there....realizing that he'd found the 'Phantom Killer'.....it's just that she hadn't really killed anyone....she just left her DNA on the swabs. The swabs were not pure and clean.
So ended the case of the 'Phantom Killer'. Up until that point, this was a five-star murder thriller. Now it was mostly about a sweaty and lusty Austrian gal, with big hands.
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