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Former New Bedford and Acushnet resident David Reed is ordered held without bail for allegedly bludgeoning his half-sister to death in 2001 cold case.

Nearly 20 years after US woman Rose Marie Moniz was found dead in a pool of blood, DNA recovered from a conch shell has helped solve the case.

State, DA in dispute over cutting-edge DNA database © WCVB State, DA in dispute over cutting-edge DNA database Shown the promise of partial DNA results to solve crime, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn began creating a database with the partial DNA results from unsolved rape cases. But his hopes of expanding the database and sharing the information with other DA's around the state has been stymied by the Baker administration, which has privacy concerns and said the sharing agreement could put the state in violation of the rules governing the use of another database already bei...

Updated: 3:12 PM EST Feb 19, 2021 Karen Anderson Kevin Rothstein Thousands of rape kits from Massachusetts victims dating back to the year 2000 have never been DNA tested, according to an audit of the backlog hidden from public view until now.The backlog persisted even after advocates and lawmakers thought legislation passed in 2018 was going to address it. The Joyful Heart Foundation, an advocacy group supporting legislation to end the backlog of rape kits, said in a press release that the measure would make Massachusetts "a national leader in the movement...

Man who hid in Maine for years now sentenced for 4 rapes in Massachusetts Ivan Keith already had been sentenced in 2 rapes, and his sentencing in 2 others means he will spend 44 to 50 years in prison. By Associated Press Share FALL RIVER, Mass. — A man already in prison for two rapes in Massachusetts in the 1990s has pleaded guilty to raping two more women, prosecutors say. Ivan Keith Photo courtesy of the Hancock County Jail Ivan Keith, 63, who fled to Maine where he lived under an alias for years, was sentenced Tuesday to up to 30 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in Fall River Super...