World's wurst burglar: half-eaten sausage helps German police solve nine-year-old burglary
by Staff and agencies from Science | The Guardian on (#5F7Y8)
Inquiry into 2012 burglary is revived after French police turn up a DNA match for unrelated crime
German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary case after DNA found on a half-eaten piece of sausage matched that of a man detained in France over an unrelated crime.
Police in the western town of Schwelm said on Thursday the sausage belonged to the victim, and the suspect - a 30-year-old Albanian citizen - appeared to have helped himself to a bite during the break-in in Gevelsberg in March 2012.
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