Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits
Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits
A new law extends the state’s sexual assault evidence protections to cover DNA samples. But getting justice in hundreds of cold cases will require more than just testing, survivors say.
50 years. Disgusting. And they're far from the only state.
68We've had a severe backlog here in Texas, too. It's awful how widespread this is.
35This, to me, is the worst part of the article. About a multiple rapist who was identified recently through this program. Not because of his DNA, because of a fingerprint. You know, the thing we've been able to connect criminals to for over a century.
The technology to find Shipe had been around for decades; the difference that led to him to be found now was staffing the effort with a cold-case detective, paid for with funds from the reform effort.
All they had to do was hire one detective and a violent serial rapist was caught nearly 50 years after he may have started.
41Didn't Texas say they would eliminate all rapes in Texas?
It's like Trump's comment If we stop testing for COVID we'd have fewer cases.
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"on track" is a poor choice of terms. "catching up to" maybe.
28Sounds like a cog is loose in the Orphan Crushing Machine.
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