Sideswipe: March 16: A west end town, a dead end world?
15 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Edible evidence Imagine the indignation of returning to your home to find that not only has it been ransacked, but the perpetrator took a massive bite out of that lovely sausage you were saving (is nothing sacred?!). That's exactly what happened to a homeowner in the Rocholzalle in Gevelsberg, Germany, back in 2012. Nine years on, police finally have the identity of the perpetrator thanks to evidence of their guilt all over the remaining sausage. Officers took DNA from a half-eaten sausage but a search returned no matches at the time and the guilty party went free. That was, until they committed an unrelated crime and the arresting officers took a sample of their DNA. At last, an automated piece of tech was able to find a match for the Great Sausage Case of 2012 - a 30-year-old Albanian citizen. Unfortunately for the victim of the burglary, the statute of limitations had passed, thwarting any chances of the criminal being extradited for trial in Germany, leaving them once again free to bite another sausage.
Imagine the indignation of returning to your home to find that not only has it been ransacked, but the perpetrator took a massive bite out of that lovely sausage you were saving (is nothing sacred?). That's exactly what happened to a homeowner in the Rocholzalle in Gevelsberg, Germany, back in 2012. Nine years on, police finally have the identity of the perpetrator thanks to evidence of their guilt that was conveniently sealed with the bite of a sausage.
Following the burglary in 2012, officers on the scene discovered an uncoventional clue as they took DNA from a half-eaten sausage. The sausage belonged to the victim who, aware that they hadn’t tucked into it themself, was able to confirm that the bitemark could only belong to the burglar. A press release from the police doesn't detail exactly what kind of sausage it was, but it would prove to be hard edible evidence.