A memorial stone for Peggy Knobloch. Photo: DPAGerman police admitted Wednesday they had falsely linked two high-profile crimes - an unsolved child murder and a neo-Nazi cell's killing spree - because investigators accidentally contaminated DNA evidence. Police last October reported that genetic material found near the skeleton of nine-year-old schoolgirl Peggy Knobloch, who went missing in 2001, matched that of the late neo-Nazi gunman Uwe Boehnhardt. This seemed to connect the child's death to the 2000-2007 racist murder spree on the National Socialist Underground, far-right militants who shot dead nine men with migrant roots and a policewoman. Something like that "should not have happened," admitted Uwe Ebner, who leads a special inquiry into the child murder.

Source: The Local March 08, 2017 17:48 UTC