The proof, this time around, was not in the proverbial pudding. It was in the sausage.
As daily Berliner Kurier reports, police this week said they have identified the culprit in a 2012 break-in that happened in the western German town of Gevelsberg after the man’s DNA was found on a piece of sausage he’d left behind.
Nine years ago, there had been no match when the half-chewed piece of forensic evidence was originally put through for analysis. But this week, after a 30-year-old native of Albania was arrested in France, a standard cross-check of international DNA databases matched him to the (long) leftover bit of sausage in Germany.
Although French police released the suspect, German authorities say they will reopen the cold case of burglary in Gevelsberg.
Oddly enough, this is not the first time German police report a hungry burglar’s appetite coming back to bite him in den Arsch. According to German news website Der Westen, in February 2015 in Ansbach, a man who broke into a grocery store was snacking on sausage during his crime, leading to his arrest a couple of months later based on the DNA found in a meaty bite left behind.
It only goes to prove that, in Germany at least, some burglars really are the wurst.
