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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG Investigators have spent more than a decade uncovering problems with rape kit testing in Memphis, and one year ago was no different. We found out a rape kit had sat on a shelf for months, allowing the suspect, Cleotha Abston Henderson, to reportedly abduct a Memphis mother on her morning jog. […]

JACKSON, Tenn. – The TBI opened its doors for Media Day on Wednesday, answering an array of questions.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is working hard to expedite the testing of rape kits following several high-profile cases where kits went untested for months.

On Wednesday, the TBI hosted a press conference to discuss drug trends in Tennessee, and several other parts of the bureau's work.

In an effort to reduce turnaround times, hundreds of sexual assault kits submitted by law enforcement agencies across the state, have been outsourced for laboratory analysis in Florida.

In an effort to reduce turnaround times in the TBI’s Forensic Biology Units, hundreds of sexual assault kits, submitted by law enforcement agencies across the state, have been outsourced for laboratory analysis in Florida. The TBI secured $1.5 million in federal grant funding for the project through the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs. Following a competitive bid process, the state awarded the contract to DNA Labs Inter...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation flew 550 kits to the Florida lab, including 250 from the Jackson Crime Laboratory which handles Memphis-area cases.

One of the rape kits that went untested for years belonged to a woman who was raped at 13. She said her rapist was only recently convicted.

The jury found her guilty of Vehicular Homicide by intoxication in the 2019 killing of Officer Nicholas Galinger.

A state commission will soon give the legislature a recommendation on how to get patients medical cannabis.