Mosbrucker said many kits sat waiting untested for years at law enforcement agencies or college campuses. Some kits were in poor condition due to a neglect of proper preservation. Numerous kits sustained water damage from lack of care.
“We want to make sure that when someone reports a sexual assault that we actually investigate it,” Mosbrucker said.
Due to a renewed commitment to test old rape kits, several people who committed sexual assaults years ago have been identified through the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a national database of DNA evidence collected from the perpetrators of violent crimes like sexual assault.
“We’re literally knocking on the door 20 years later
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