THE PHANTOM OF HEILBRONN | CHASING A GHOST

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The murderer named the Phantom of Heilbronn had been baffling German investigators for two years. The criminal was a rarity, a female serial killer, and a very busy one: police linked DNA evidence from 40 crimes — including the infamous homicide of a policewoman in the southern German town of Heilbronn — to the same killer.
Police found her DNA on items ranging from a cookie to a heroin syringe to a stolen car. They put a 400,000 dollars reward on her head.
Profilers from around Europe were called in to help hunt her down. The police even consulted diviners and fortune-tellers in hopes of discovering her identity. The papers declared the case "the most mysterious serial crime of the past century."