German Police Riddle (with SOLUTION)

[@sarcasticscholar7728]

Wes, you have the delivery of a showman. It would be worth the price of admission to lose a bar bet to you. Kristen, your logical jumps are jaw-dropping and hilarious to witness. You're a mind trap / trivia night a-lister. You two are a joy to watch.

[@Skeeve-Magick]

I'm German and I think I know the story. It was a contamination in swabs and the "same person" was a worker in the factory.

[@pauln7869]

Wasn't there also a case where the same person was wanted for numerous driving offences, and then they realised that the name they were recording was actually the Polish for "Driving Licence"?

[@YvonneWilson312]

That rings a bell with me too - wasn't it in Ireland?

[@JaceDraccus]

I knew the answer almost immediately.... because they used it for an episode of CSI: New York. Still fun though.

[@KiryokuYT]

If I took anything away from this story, it's that your wife has a lot of love in her heart. ♥

[@Lisa_Harlow]

I'm german and I've never heard of this story. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@Wolfwent79]

Ah, es war mal irgendwann in den Nachrichten. Im Internet findest du imme rmal wieder diesen Bericht.

[@moos5221]

I'm german and I have heard of this story.

[@Lisa_Harlow]

@@moos5221 good for you 😊

[@lunalovegoodwitch]

You've probably never heard of it because it isn't a actual true story even though they say it is

[@moos5221]

@@lunalovegoodwitch it actually is though.

[@MikeP2055]

I saw this on Adam Ruins Everything. I was kind of bummed that I knew the answer right away because I love riddles. Nevertheless, well done!

[@rikhavok]

Wes, I love watching your Magic, but mostly I love your performances because they are always so improvised in the moment. Obviously the trick has steps from start to finish, but you never have the same performance twice because you look for the comedy in the moment. Truely spectacular. Honestly, You are a comedian first and a magician second. I love that! You are such a character and so is your wife. Any chance you have done any stage shows where Kristen came on stage too? I would love to see that.

[@rikhavok]

And even more, It’d be funny if you had her come on as a plant. Have her “F” up and say she’s your wife. Your banter about how she wasn’t supposed to say that.. but still do the trick with all that banter going on. She’s not really even part of the trick other than the misdirection. You could totally pull a trick like this off. It would be so funny!!

[@Mikael.Nyberg]

I remember watching an episode of CSI: New York where this was the plot (S06E04), I had no clue they took inspiration from a real story :D

[@ShadowDemon_4]

I forgot about this. I had heard this before years ago.

[@robcoop6521]

Feel like you should have a spot on some local news show. Right after weather. Just pop up with these.

[@angrytedtalks]

So there were 2 human errors. 1. A Polish worker was allowing contamination from her DNA. 2. Police using the swabs didn't check that the swabs were contamination free when dusting for DNA at crime scenes and apparently unable to find any DNA from actual perpetrators.

[@CookinWithSquirrl]

15 years of doing her job terribly

[@KateSuhrgirlPlays]

I think I heard this story but my thought the whole time was someone donated hair for wigs and it was made into many different wigs.

[@moos5221]

You wouldn't be able to get any DNA from wigs, since hair doesn't hold any DNA. It's just the hair root that hold DNA which wouldn't be in the donated hair or wigs though. So wigs for DNA is impossible.

[@rickyrickstan563]

1:56 was it one of the cops investigating

[@ramonhamm3885]

What, was she dripping with sweat in the factory?

[@dustinparis2396]

ncis ny had an episode like this. it was a spanish woman not wearing gloves.

[@grotgrusson5124]

This even hit the news here in Sweden 😄

[@darbyl3872]

I'm a cotton swab, and I've never heard of this story.

[@grotgrusson5124]

DNA, High resolution cameras and Sky rocketing gas prices happened 😄😉

[@MagicofKeelanWendorf]

CROMES

[@gusteg83]

Thought it would have been a crime writer just visiting the places and to exclude him/her from the crime he/she was swapped every time and mixed in to the investigations. But the real answer makes more sense. And I'm so on the same side as Kristen about the 71 year old lade shouldn't HAVE to be working. But also she should not Be working at that age in a place like that.

[@osmia]

+

[@moos5221]

It's Poland, it's basically a 2nd world country and she's probably happy to have a job to pay the bills.

[@Merrsharr]

She was 71 when they figured it out. She'd been working there for 15 years (at least) so she had been 56 when she started contaminating the kits. The actually scary part though, is that in 15 years nobody else at the place noticed. Also, I've heard that story many times, but nobody explained HOW she left her DNA on the cotton swabs. It's not like it's enough to just handle them with bare hands... or maybe that IS enough, but has a low probability of leaving enough genetic material for a usable sample, however with the amount of swabs she contaminated, that low probability still manifested in LOTS of test results. Also, now imagine those swabs were not only used by police. "The results of the paternity test are in. Your kid is not related to you. Or your wife. Also your kid is wanted for several cases of murder."

[@osmia]

I'm hoping she is still alive and gets to watch this

[@spaceDJ_11]

Thanks little old lady!

[@escapedgoat]

She was probably a criminal mastermind that used her job to cover up her hundreds of crimes.

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

Love these videos - you always come away smiling after watching them 😁....cheers guys #youbothrock 🤘❤️🤘

[@FlyboyGWN]

Yeah, but when it started she was only ~56 ...

[@nancyanderson5320]

Great accent!! Love your acting and your laughs makes me so happy.😅

[@irian42]

Oh, I know this story! 😄

[@Blondie42]

Makes me wonder what she was doing with her handling of the swabs that left her DNA on them. 🤔

[@moos5221]

just touching them would be sufficient. it surely wasn't on all swabs, since that would have been discovered immediately when ALL swabs would hold that DNA. it was just occasionally some swabs, that why it was hard to conclude how it happenend at first. the only certain thing here is that the hygenie procedures at that plant were insufficient and there was no quality control. that's the downside of outsourcing labor intensive work to low income countries, you get insufficient quality.

[@Merrsharr]

@@moos5221 Touching them would not be sufficient to leave enough usable DNA sample on the swab MOST OF THE TIME, so they only matched her to so many cases because she touched thousands. Also, the factory was in Austria (though employing eastern-European workers) and the swabs were NOT CERTIFIED for DNA collection. So the hygiene procedures and quality control of the plant were sufficient for the intended purpose (testing for viral/bacterial load, which would not be contaminated due to being sterilized), but the people buying for the police failed to do their due diligence when choosing those swabs. (They were apparently not the cheapest. Some people thought these double-wrapped swabs were "the Mercedes among swabs")

[@spblc]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

[@lunalovegoodwitch]

Interesting but it's not good swearing it does not sound look good or achieve anything