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The Most Notorious Murderer in Germany That Never Existed
She was called the “Woman Without a Face” and “The Phantom of Heilbronn” and her DNA was linked to forty crimes.
It was 2007, in Heilbronn, Germany, when twenty-two-year-old policewoman Michele Kiesewetter was murdered. She had been in her patrol car with her partner on their lunch break when a vehicle drove by and opened fire. Michele died instantly, and her partner was injured. The subsequent investigation unearthed more than a murder investigation.
For years, Germany, Austria, and France searched for a female serial killer with links in a variety of different cold cases. Ranging from murder, break and enters car thefts, and petty crimes. Totaling to a whopping forty crimes, spread out over a decade. The only common link between the crimes was DNA evidence. Investigators could make no sense of it. She seemed to be an expert in eluding authorities. She had managed never to be caught on surveillance or seen by witnesses. The crimes she was connected to were spread out over a vast geographical area, and there was no consistency.
Others who had been convicted in connection to her crimes also denied her existence — making her that much more infamous. A seeming criminal mastermind…
