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Well deserved. >> thank you very much peter. listen, though i decided to turn the page i'm not ready to write a final chapter. i'm out here fighting for issues i believe in. >> that's what we want to focus on right now, one of the key issues is this backlog of rape kits maryland has been struggling with this backlog for years. is this strictly about money? is that the primary obstacle right now? >> no first of all, number one we face the issue of attitude that rape is a serious violent crime for many people they rank this right up -- second only to murder, murder kills the body. but -- and the...

Shelf, it's just not right. >> reporter: wayne county prosecutor kim worthy sounded the alarm on untested rape kits back in 2009. that's when her office discovered 11,341 untested rape kits in a city warehouse. the kits, they later realized, went back 30 years. all that time the women who the kits belonged to expected police to be using that evidence to help catch their attackers. detroit has completed testing on 2,000 of the rape kits. another 8,000 are in the process of being tested. of those that are done, worthy says they've identified 188 serial rapists. 188. sadly, she expects to find mo...

>> i was. >> did you say to him, get off me? >> i just kept saying, please stop. please stop. >> reporter: paula says the man raped her repeatedly. then by some miracle agreed to let her go. shivering and alone, paula made her way here to henry ford hospital. she told a nurse she had been raped and agreed to an exam. doctors photographed and swabbed her, a humiliating experience. but necessary to collect evidence for a so-called rape kit. doctors collected dna evidence so the police could catch the man who raped her. she couldn't have been more wrong. it turns out that rape kit, the one with t...

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Congressional lo indicated $41 million last year. now they're doing that again. also in 2013 michigan alone gave another $4 million to try and get these rape kits tested. but it costs about $1200 to $1500 to test each kit. and detroit is broke. so to go back and do this and really reinvestigate the entire case it takes a lot of money and a lot of time. a lot of the cases go back 30 years. and before 2001 there was a statute of limitations on rape cases. that went away after 2001. it's not retroactive. they're trying to move as quickly as they can to get as many of these guys off the street. >>...