Relatively late, in January 2017, a citizen informed Mayor Lars Burkhard Steinz about the eerie shit series: "There is someone out there who shits on the sidewalks." Subsequently, the town of Heuchelheim documented 30 cases of public human poop during the last year but found no tangible trace of the "defecator."
Only in January 2018 did Mayor Steinz, a former police officer, take on the shit professionally by calling for help in the Heuchelheimer Gemeindenachrichten (Local Newspaper). To avoid upsetting his citizens too much, he euphemistically wrote, "Unappetizing occurrences happen in our community," and asked them to provide information about people leaving fecal marks.
The male form used here is politically correct because "We know the gender of the defecator from stool samples." Mayor Steinz had taken the matter in hand and collected samples, too, using latex gloves and test tubes. "That's how we saved the DNA," he explained.
By February, the mayor had received more than 50 relevant hints. He had the offender's profile published in the Heuchelheimer Gemeindenachrichten under the heading, "Hinweise zu menschlichen Kotspurlegern (Hints to humans laying marks of feces)." The text revealed, "A prime suspect is a man in his late fifties having a squat, stout body. He wears glasses, a kepi with a military pattern, and is usually on a bicycle."
Meanwhile, the man was identified: "For a long time he has been a Heuchelheim citizen and has perfectly working restroom facilities at home." And Steinz added, "This is not a court case. The regulatory authority will invite the guy to explain his case. As compensation for his pollution, he may be asked to do social work like cleaning rubbish from sidewalks."
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