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Terrified. i didn't have any words. i didn't say anything to him. i just asked him to take me home. >> reporter: she says her roommate found her distraught and in tears and encouraged her to report the rape. every time a rape kit is collected the victim's body is treated as the crime scene. a nurse asks questions like did he ejaculate inside of you. did he kiss you, lick you. for three to five hours the nurse swabs the mouth, breast, scrapes under fingernails, comb pubic hair, using blue dye to illuminate torn tissue. photographs are taken of every injury. far away, close up with a ruler to sh...

>> i had to find way to cope. >> reporter: this woman is one of the 333 victims in fayet fayettevil fayetteville, north carolina whose rape kit was destroyed. we referred to her as christine. >> i was right here when i got the call when the case was re-opened. >> reporter: that call was in 2015. >> i felt we had a lot of rapes that were workable. the evidence needed to be sent off. unfortunately when i came looking for the evidence it was no longer here. >> why were they destroyed? >> we were just clearing up space in the evidence room. >> reporter: in north carolina, there is no statute of li...

Going out to put his garbage in his can and sees the knife in there. he immediately calls his police department and that's when they find the neighbors who said, yeah, they saw the night before some other car come up and heard a thump and somebody saw somebody throwing something in his can and leave. it wasn't shannon. no identification was made about that. >> reporter: just a dark figure in a hoodie. >> that's correct. >> reporter: was the knife planted? there's no proof either way, but it was tested, and there was nothing that connected it to jermeir. as for his whereabouts at the time of th...

Book "the case against impeaching trump" and joins us tonight. thanks for coming on, professor. >> thank you. >> tucker: you heard specific legal claim that it is now the law in the united states that, and i'm quoting, "a woman's word is enough." that's it. is that true? >> technically it is true, the law was changed some years ago, and i think it was a good change, that you don't need corroboration to make a case. so that if a woman, who was raped, immediately goes to the hospital, gets a rape kit, identifies her assailant, knew her assailant, her word would be enough. if it's 35 years old, t...

Investigate it. today on "the view" some one identified as a legal analyst said when it comes to sexual assault, due process plays no role. watch this. >> after 40 years we finally changed the law. we finally said a woman's word is fluff. i've taken many cases to trial with just a woman's kword. -- word. >> every single woman needs to be heard. more often than not women are correct. but, sonny, you are insinuating that evidence doesn't matter. as a lawyer, evidence should always matter. >> it is evidence, testimony. you don't need corroborating evidence. you don't need a rape kit. you don't ne...