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Dont keep teasing the victims when youre going to execute somebody -- >> do it by any means necessary. >> if not, get it off the books. >> mayor wharton, thanks for your work on this rape kit issue. thats the subject of this weeks call to action, add your signature to the chairs of house and senate appropriation committees urging them to assure the ip inclusion of $36 million in funding in the fiscal year to help clear that backlog of rape kits across the united states. you can find the letter o...

Analysts were able to obtain dna from the stains and generate a profile. >> they could not exclude rebecca barney from being a contributor to that profile and only one in 12,000 individuals in the general population would match that profile. >> but was kidwells dna at the crime scene? the profile from saliva on rebeccas body was very weak, so analysts returned to the dna from rebeccas rape kit. because she was menstruating, the dna was predominantly female, but there were minute amounts of male ...

Everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming at anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. >> brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. >> what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. thats what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because heres a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. >> it was just a nightmare. the hospital got angry because shauna wouldnt let them do...

He pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face. >> when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. >> a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, thats a rape kit. >> police now suspected graham ...

The physical characteristics of the dye and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the hairs recovered from the tire rim exhibited the same microscopic characteristics as the known head hair samples coming from the victim. >> during police questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards shoes and clothing. those stains were blood, and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the blood found on the tire at the crime scene. the res...

Fingerprints that matched doug desilvas from the scene never led us to believe that he wasnt the suspect. because a lot of times, we dont find any fingerprints. >> and perhaps the worst piece of news was that desilvas dna profile did not match the evidence collected from kaye robinsons rape kit. >> dna evidence conclusively ruled out doug desilva as being involved in the crime. it was almost like being struck in the head by a 2 x 4. >> we were extremely shocked. it was like someone had punched y...

To cover his face. >> when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. >> a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, thats a rape kit. >> police now suspected graham was responsible for the murd...

Up, because the chronology just doesnt support it. there was a nanny who made the initial observation. the nanny had no connections to mia farrow directly. she was somebody elses nanny, in fact, a friends nanny, who made the observation. then, mia did what any person would do under those circumstances, took her daughter to the doctor, had her examined. there had never been any allegation that there was any specific penetration. so a rape kit would not produce anything. i think, look, nobody will...

Considered to be most crit cam sent to a lab inside broward county sheriffs office for analysis. the chief said some arrests have been made. still too many women across the country are getting caught on the wrong side of this mess. like carol bart from dallas, texas, who in june 1984 endured the most terrifying experience of home run life. >> did you think you were going to die that night? >> i did think i was going to die that night. i thought he was going to kill me. >> reporter: after a night...

Backlog, but as was mentioned earlier, each rape kit represents a human being whose body was a crime scene, and what an amazing technology, and how can we really ignore that? the criminal, the evidentiary material is on a persons body. rape kit exam is a invasive exam and to go through that process and all of a sudden to be ignored and have these rape kits sitting on shelves collecting dust nationwide, 400,000 nationwide. its a travesty. 400,000 nationwide, rape kits collecting dust. >> we talk ...