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A story about a very expensive series of false positives. The German police spent years and millions of dollars tracking a mysterious killer whose DNA had been found at the scenes of six murders. Finally they realized they were tracking a worker at the factory that assembled the prepackaged swabs used for DNA testing.
The Questionable Authority : The "Phantom" of Heilbronn and Negative Controls (Or the Lack Thereof)
A story about a very expensive series of false positives. The German police spent years and millions of dollars tracking a mysterious killer whose DNA had been found at the scenes of six murders. Finally they realized they were tracking a worker at the factory that assembled the prepackaged swabs used for DNA testing.
The Questionable Authority : The "Phantom" of Heilbronn and Negative Controls (Or the Lack Thereof)
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