Efforts to end rape kit backlog lead to new delays normantranscript.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from normantranscript.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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HAMILTON - New Jersey State Police have formed a specialized Cold Case Unit, comprising veteran state police detectives and civilian investigators, to tackle the agency s hundreds of open cold case homicides.
The unit works out of cubicles and offices at the New Jersey State Police Technology Building, around a bend in Negron Drive from the agency s Troop C headquarters. It was first conceived in January 2020. Out of necessity, really, cold cases were being worked on a daily basis by our Major Crimes Unit for years, said Lt. Robert Cecchini, who leads the unit. Our unit was created with mostly major crime detectives who were working active homicides. They had the experience.
SPD provides new avenues to solve older sexual assault cases kxly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kxly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A Racine man suspected in a series of unsolved rapes from several years ago has been charged in two cases after investigators tracked him down using a DNA profile of his broader family.
Matthew P. Crockett, 46, faces one count of first-degree sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman in November 2014, and a count of second-degree sexual assault of a 40-year-old woman in spring of 2015, and two counts of false imprisonment.
Both attacks took place in Kenosha, according to the criminal complaint, and each victim reported a short man pulling them into a white car where he assaulted them.
Investigators from the state Department of Justice s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative have been reviewing evidence from backlogged rape kits, the evidence collected from victims by nurses. They noted the same suspect DNA from the two Kenosha assaults matched suspect DNA from two more in Racine from around the same time.
Charges Filed for Serial Sexual Assaults After Crime Lab Processes Backlogged Kits forensicmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forensicmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.