Prolific Euro criminal is a cotton swab

Police had a very prolific criminal on their hands in Europe.  This lady was detected at over 20 various crime scenes, including murders, spread out over a very large area.  Turns out, some cotton swab company had been selling contaminated forensic swabs to the cops. Sort of funny…in a geeky way…

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