SPANISH CITY SIEGE FUGITIVE STILL WANTED BY POLICE

Link to reclusive billionaire still “unproven”

 

Dog Plague mastermind is victim’s stepmum

 

WHITLEY BAY: One week after the dramatic Spanish City siege, the elderly woman who escaped in a self-piloted drone remains on the run and wanted for questioning by the police.

She was known as “Dr. Pretorius” to the children she had allegedly kidnapped. Police are investigating the possibility that she is in fact the Norwegian tech billionaire Dr. Erika Pettarssen who disappeared five years ago.

A spokesperson for the Pettarssen charitable foundation, which provides funds for developing technology in poorer nations, said they had had no contact with her.

The local children at the center of the siege were lured to a hi-tech games laboratory by “Dr. Pretorius,” where they tested virtual-reality games with an advanced form of transcranial direct-current stimulation device built into a bicycle helmet. One of the children—Georgina Santos—was taken to the hospital suffering headaches and vomiting. She is expected to make a full recovery.

The laboratory was located in the iconic dome of the 1910 Spanish City entertainment complex. Police computer experts say that all the disks that might contain clues about the games being developed had been wiped by the time they arrived.

In a startling twist, Georgina’s father’s partner—pictured at the scene cradling the blood-soaked girl—is Jessica Stone, the biobotics technician who is being credited with identifying the nanobiotic molecular antidote—the so-called cure for Dog Plague.

The two events are not believed to be connected.