New DNA analysis helps bust 200-year-old royal conspiracy theory
A new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists has helped bust a popular 200-year-old myth surrounding Kaspar Hauser, whose identity became one of the most mysterious riddles in German history. The study is published in iScience as a pre-proof paper.
X-Files tag beats out Achtung tag for this one.
They did DNA testing on some hair samples, and discovered he didn't have royal blood, which was a theory at the time. So who was he? Just a young con artist?