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In Untested, an exclusive podcast from USA TODAY and Witness, a detective brings listeners along as she tracks a sexual predator. advertisement Story by Gina Barton and Austin Fast, USA TODAY ...
The Houston Police Department's backlog of untested rape kits totals between 6,000 and 7,000 - 50 percent more than what officials previously acknowledged, according to a memo from Chief Charles ...
As the former head of the Minneapolis Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit, I would like to respond to the allegation of 1,700 untested rape kits ("Minneapolis police discover 1,700 untested rape ...
In fact, the number of untested new kits has quadrupled in the past two years. As of April, Oregon State Police reported a backlog of 884 newly submitted sexual assault forensic evidence kits, ...
Some of the untested kits in the state dated back to the 1980s, according to the Attorney General’s office. "Each of those kits was a survivor whose voice was never heard, that never had a ...