"The woman without a face" is a serial killer being pursued by German police. She has struck without leaving DNA or other evidence.
Worse yet,
her DNA signature has continued to turn up at new crime sites since Heilbronn - most bizarrely, perhaps, a few months ago when the corpses of three Georgian car dealers were trawled from a river near Heppenheim, south of Frankfurt. Two men were jailed for the killing, an Iraqi and a Somali. In the Iraqi suspect's battered old Ford, forensic officers found traces of the same DNA found in the police car in Heilbronn. But how did it get there? Who is the woman whose genetic calling card has been found at more than 20 scenes of theft, assault and murder hundreds of miles and more than a dozen years apart?
The suspect is also known as The Phantom of Heilbronn.
(thanks to Steve B)
"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
As it is, my money's on three or more clones escaped from an Austrian basement where they were being controlled in part through heroin addiction.
Posted by: Ed Webb | November 22, 2008 at 14:21