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Discarded lifelike sex dolls keep fooling German police
Picking up a twig on the ground next to a blackberry bush, the dog walker poked at the plastic bag — and a burnt hand popped out.
He called the police in Rostock, the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the full machinery of a murder investigation swung into action.
Members of the homicide unit and a forensic team set up floodlights and a 3D scanner to provide a precise recording of the grisly scene. A drone was launched and an undertaker was summoned.
The charred remains of a naked unidentified woman spoke of a dark underbelly of German life, in more ways than one. It took more than five hours for investigators to discover that the body was, in fact, a