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A Kansas Bureau of Investigation initiative is expected to change the state's sexual assault evidence kit process so that ...
According to Orin Dym Forensic Laboratory Manager of the Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, the lab has 266 rape kits in its queue waiting to be tested and on average it takes 240 days ...
Attorney General Marty Jackley says that the state's forensic lab has finished testing all rape kits collected from South Dakota law enforcement agencies as part of a state project.
Memphis is set to have two dedicated forensic scientists at the TBI crime lab in Jackson. The city will pay for the positions.
Contamination at an out-of-state laboratory that tests rape kits has delayed progress on thousands of backlogged kits in Kentucky. Staff at Kentucky State Police’s central forensic laboratory in ...
As the state's crime lab struggles to process more than 1,300 rape kits that were found stored and forgotten at Grady Memorial Hospital, an avalanche of additional DNA evidence has rolled in ...
Sixteen agencies participated and about 2,100 untested kits were identified. The forensic lab manager, Jason Linder, said so far, about 90% of them have been tested.
Tennessee is outsourcing the testing of at least 550 rape kits to a private Florida lab through a $1.5 million federal grant. GET IT ON G E T I T O N. Skip to content. Menu. WINK News. News .
ALBANY - Thousands of sexual assault evidence kits that have gone untested across New York will be sent for forensic testing under a bill signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week. The bill ...
Tennessee is fast-tracking the hire of forensic lab workers after the grisly murder of a billionaire heiress revealed a backlog of over 12,000 rape kits. Business.
Forensic science has deadly stakes, but half of the largest labs in the U.S. haven't adopted federal standards, including for DNA tests and guns.
It is the Connecticut’s only forensic lab, and it gets sexual assault collection kits from more than 100 agencies across the state. The lab gets about 500 kits each year.