The innovation helped accelerate successful investigation and prosecution of sexual assault in the United States and whose influence continues to this day.
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“Sarah’s case could have been solved decades earlier if Washington state had stronger DNA policies in place. Why aren’t they in place? Shouldn’t the state do what they can to utilize the full potential of DNA to solve crime, prevent crime and exonerate the innocent?”
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The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in an attempt to identify skeletal remains that were discovered in 1977.
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The 2022 DNA Hit of the Year program is looking at how Latin America is leveraging their incredibly successful DNA database programs to solve serial sexual assaults, missing persons cases and more.
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A DNA hit was located on fingernail scrapings and bodily fluid from bedding recovered at the scene.
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Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn’s Untested Rape Kit Initiative has resulted in the first indictment related to previously untested rape kits.
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Following an investigation by Thames Valley Police’s Major Crime Review Team, a man has been convicted of the murder of a woman and the rape of a girl that happened in the 1980s.
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The Kentucky State Police (KSP) has utilized the ANDE Rapid DNA Identification System, a technology that generates DNA identification from forensic samples in less than two hours, to positively identify a woman who went missing in 2020.
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Yuma County currently does not have a full-scale forensic DNA analysis lab requiring cases to be sent to the state crime lab.
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Even as automated and new techniques have shortened the processing time for DNA samples from months to days, laboratories are struggling to keep pace with the vastly increased demand.
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