DNA
Serial rapist caught after eight-year hunt
Police finally have caught a man responsible for three rapes in northern Bavaria in 2008 after his DNA turned up at a break-in a different part of the country.
Police arrest murder suspect 25 years on
German police have arrested a man on suspicion of killing a young girl more than 25 years ago, on the basis of DNA evidence, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Teenage love-biter forced on sex crime register
A 14-year-old boy who gave his classmate a love bite has been ordered by a court to submit a DNA sample to be stored on a biometric register of sex offenders. Germany's highest court will now investigate the case.
Two decades later, teen's murder solved by DNA
Twenty-four years after she was slain, the murder of a Kiel teenager has been solved using DNA evidence linked to a long-dead sex offender.
Horses domesticated more than 5,000 years ago
Dogs have always enjoyed wide acceptance and man’s best friend, but a German team of scientists has revealed that horses may have been domesticated more than five millennia ago.
KaDeWe heist suspects released because of twin DNA
Five weeks after their arrest, Berlin police have released two suspects in the spectacular robbery of the city’s KaDeWe department store because DNA tests can’t tell the identical twins apart, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported on Thursday.
Bremen coating valuables with synthetic DNA to fight theft
The city-state of Bremen plans to be the first place in Germany to use synthetic DNA on valuables to trace thieves, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported this week.