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Paradox of unanimity

Paradox of unanimity

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Paradox of unanimity

- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Jill Butler, and this is Universal Principles of Design. In this movie, the paradox of unanimity, or when something is too amazing to be true. In April 2007, Michele Kiesewetter and Martin Arnold, two police officers in Heilbronn, Germany, were taking a lunch break in their patrol car. Without warning or provocation, two assailants approached their car from behind and shot them. Kiesewetter was killed, and Arnold was seriously injured. This brazen attack shocked the nation and triggered one of the largest criminal investigations in German history. As police processed DNA evidence from the crime scene, they were stunned by the results. The DNA matched a notorious serial killer that had been dubbed the Phantom of Heilbronn, or the Woman Without a Face, a killer whose DNA had been recovered from over 40 crime scenes in Austria, France, and Germany over a period of 15 years. From the DNA, police knew that the killer was female and of Eastern European descent, but…

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