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There is this criminal out there and you're helpless do-to-do anything about it. >> reporter: until 2012. >> this man is now wanted by police memphis police. >> reporter: she felt a cold shudder of recognition. i wore a mask and at takdtacked with a knife. megan called the police and demanded they reopen her case. >> i found on my birthday june 21 2012 that his dna was found in my rape kit. >> reporter: anthony oliono a serial rapist now spending the rest of his life behind bars. megan was his first known victim. he raped six others while her kit sat untested. up tested rape kits are a nationa...

Decade. >> to find out you're raped, you went through the grueling process of a rape kit and that the rape kit wasn't tested? every survivor of sexual assault feels like they have been revictimized. >> experts say there are hundreds of thousands of rape kits collecting dust across the u.s. >> many who rape rape again and they rape again elsewhere. >> manhattan's district attorney cyrus vance jr. recently announced a $35 million program to tackle the nationwide problem. the money will give police departments across the u.s. the resources to test backlogged rape kits for genetic evidence that co...

That some of these cold cases may finally be solved. >> i went to my building as i always do, except the difference on that evening is there was a man behind me with a gun. >> she was violently raped in new york city in 1993. she says she is a perfect example of how the system failed after her rape kit sat untouched in a police storage unit for nearly a decade. >> now to find out that were raped, that you went through this grueling process of a rape kit, and that the rape kit wasn't tested? every survivor's sexual assault says they feel like they've been revictimized. >> the dna was finally te...

Tell you is there at least a moment of possibility open in all of the horror of the allegations for talking about and creating new pathways for reporting? because why don't you just go to the police? yeah, because everything we are seeing about police these days makes you feel like that's a really good idea. >> and that's a key point because we need to talk about the process of what happens when you report a sexual assault. for example, a rape kit is not a science experience. that's sort of very sanitized and not invasive. it's invasive and emotionally a damaging process. i think that people t...

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 kidwell's dna at the crime scene? the profile from saliva on rebecca's body was very weak, so analysts returned to the dna from rebecca's rape kit. because she was menstruating, the dna was predominantly female, but there were minute amounts of male dna too. this time analysts used a process called ystr, which zeros in on one part of the sample,...