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Talked to a receptionist who said hes in retirement, hes not working traffic. >> you left 50 messages in one month? >> yes. im a little obsessive. >> she eventually was put in touch with the investigator looking at cold cases. a woman who dusted off the old angie samota files, took a look inside and found some promising evidence. >> in06 when she decided to reopen the case, she went over to the lab and realized they did have a rape kit. they did have a sample that in todays technology could be t...

Delays in testing evidence left behind during sexual assaults have been a lost opportunity for investigators and a source of frustration for victims.

The new website is exclusively for survivors of sexual assault to be able to track their kits electronically.

Rape survivors told lawmakers on Friday that they're often being left in the dark about what's being done with evidence in their cases.

City. dna from her rape kit was used to arrest her for theft charges. now, the arrest charges were dropped after this case came to light. and the city did pass an ordinance prohibiting cops from identifying suspects by using dna from an rape kit. doug is back at the table. you have been tuching to source about your story and the implications are pretty far reaching. what do you think about it? >> i talked to a lot of lawyers, particularly former lawyers and former mayor of baltimore, and he says...

And the idea that this kind of information is going to happen is going to be a huge disincentive for them to want to come in regard. and the other thing people need to realize, may not know this, taking the evidence from an rape kit is not exactly unintrusive. it is extremely intrusive, extremely traumatic. so having this result, its used as a band-aid. they need to look at it from a different issue, but that ordinance has been passed that you cant do this in future cases. >> the politics of it,...

But later issued a correction that was not the case. court documents obtained by fox news digital suggests henderson received credit for time he had spent in jail prior to his sentencing in the 2000 case, which is required by law. but after his release, investigators say henderson kidnapped and raped a woman at gunpoint, in september of last year. but he was never indicted for that crime until just last week. back in 2021, memphis police collected samples for a rape kit similar to the ones you s...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health will reduce in-person sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) services on Cape Cod from 24/7 coverage to Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 3

And then we also know that she, herself, identified fuentes as the perpetrator. on july 12th, which was this tuesday, a search warrant was executed to obtain fuentes dna. fuentes was taken to the police station, and he confessed to raping the victim on at least two occasions. which is a very interesting statement to look at. >> jean, just out of curiosity, do we know why the attorney general wouldnt have known any of that evidence? >> well, as far as testing, do we know when the testing started?...

Helped the girl. the story quickly caught the publics attention, and some conservatives doubted its credibility, including ohios attorney general. >> not a whisper anywhere. something maybe even more telling, jesse, is my office runs the state crime lab. any case like this, youre going to have a rape kit. youre going to have biological evidence, and you would be looking for dna analysis, which we do most of the dna analysis in ohio. theres no case request for analysis that looks anything like th...