Tennessee's lead investigative agency says it now takes less than half the time it took to process rape kits in August 2022, not long before the high-profile killing of a jogger shone a light on the long delays and prompted a funding boost.
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The Albion Department of Public Safety worked with the CIU to locate the 1988 Sexual Assault Kit and submitted the evidence for DNA testing at the MSP Forensic Science Division laboratory.
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A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) forensic scientist is the subject of an internal affairs and criminal investigation after discovering anomalies in her work as part of DNA testing in the lab.
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Forty-nine years after Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker had enough foresight to save DNA evidence from the rape kits he collected from women at least once a day, Baltimore County has committed to testing all of that preserved evidence over the next 13 months.
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has sent a letter of inquiry to 23andMe after a data breach last month, expressing concerns about the fallout, as well as the possible ethnicity implications of the stolen data.
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Approximately 3,000 kits have been located and will be tested as part of this initiative. Many of these kits pre-dated the advent of DNA technologies.
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Eventually, due to the quality of the DNA samples preserved from the crime scene in conjunction with the advances of forensic science, additional investigative opportunities presented themselves.
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Clearing the backlog and testing the kits has helped solve at least 21 sexual assault cases—a number that is not exhaustive and will grow over time.
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Authorities can confirm 14-year-old Rashell Ward was murdered by Johnny Lee Coy, who was not a suspect at the time but did have a violent criminal history.
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New York’s highest court on Tuesday ruled police can resume a DNA searching method that can identify relatives of potential suspects, a technique that has helped solve crimes but caused privacy concerns.
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