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TIL 'The Phantom of Heilbronn' was believed to be a female serial killer tied to 40 crimes, six of them murders. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the woman never existed, and her DNA found at crime scenes was just contamination from cotton swabs used for collecting samples.

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