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Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Los angeles sheriffs department. but, after that, she never heard anything about her case again. >> i would call and would get an operator who didnt know anything and who would then put me through to someones voice mail and no one ever called me back. >> >> judge jeanine: 13 years went by with no progress on her case. until 2009 when peace over violence, a watchdog group stepped forward to help. it turns out the police actually sent helena rape kit to the lab in 2003, got a hit, but never did an...

Guy. he approached me with this rag over his face. >> she says alarms were going off in her head. she tried to hop in her car to escape, but the man slid in the backseat, put a knife to her throat, and demanded she drive. >> i didnt know what to do. i just felten an instinct to comply for survival. >> judge jeanine: helena took our cameras along the route she took that night. after a winding trip through the dark los angeles streets. they parked in this desolate lot. >> at night, none of this is...

Guy. he approached me with this rag over his face. >> she says alarms were going off in her head. she tried to hop in her car to escape, but the man slid in the backseat, put a knife to her throat, and demanded she drive. >> i didnt know what to do. i just felten an instinct to comply for survival. >> judge jeanine: helena took our cameras along the route she took that night. after a winding trip through the dark los angeles streets. they parked in this desolate lot. >> at night, none of this is...

Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Los angeles sheriffs department. but, after that, she never heard anything about her case again. >> i would call and would get an operator who didnt know anything and who would then put me through to someones voice mail and no one ever called me back. >> >> judge jeanine: 13 years went by with no progress on her case. until 2009 when peace over violence, a watchdog group stepped forward to help. it turns out the police actually sent helena rape kit to the lab in 2003, got a hit, but never did an...

Outrageous. connie, im going to go to you. 13 years, three and a half years to wait for the match that is sitting there in the national database. why? you run a lab. >> i work in a crime laboratory. crime laboratories work at the onus of law enforcement submitting evidence to them to be tested. not every case gets submitted to us by law enforcement agencies. >> judge jeanine: but, right now, what linda is saying and what we know about l.a. is helenaverage called con tantly and there was an activ...

Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Los angeles sheriffs department. but, after that, she never heard anything about her case again. >> i would call and would get an operator who didnt know anything and who would then put me through to someones voice mail and no one ever called me back. >> >> judge jeanine: 13 years went by with no progress on her case. until 2009 when peace over violence, a watchdog group stepped forward to help. it turns out the police actually sent helena rape kit to the lab in 2003, got a hit, but never did an...

Other victims out there. let me ask you, the l.a. sheriffs department comes out. they come out to see you. and they tell you about helenas case. what do they tell you? >> they had told us -- told me that our cases were practically the same exact things had happened. and and. >> judge jeanine: amber, do they then have a rape test kit done on you? >> yes, they did. jeep jean okay. i have a rape kit here and hell hellena you can look at this as well. there are several vials here that are used for e...