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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...

Kit. how much did it cost for the man to create male victims, female victims a hazard to communities? i bet it cost more than $1,000. >> today natasha's project is working with an advocacy group the joyful heart foundation. >> it will take care of the up tested rape kits but you have to make sure that law enforcement are testing kits in new cases as they move forward. >> authorities nationwide say additional funds are crucial to the effort and there's been another huge boost. congress recently allocated $41 million to provide law enforcement resources for the next step. and investigations and ...

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...

Many people will believe her in the future as a result of a story like this? >> i am sure both of us believe that women get raped a lot and it is a terrible thing. if you look at the piling on going on with big cosby and the press investigating that and the issues -- i believe a lot is true with bill cosby. is hundred percent true? who knows. >> again, if this kind of thing happens, what is the next woman that something like this might happen to, what is she supposed to do? >> part of the bill cosby issue is was it piling on or is there safety in numbers? when these incidents are written about...

This case, i can't specifically tell you because the federal rules in massachusetts prohibit me from doing so. >> you are the first telling me you think you can prove it from that long ago. others have said, there weren't rape kits or things like that, never mind that most of the women at the time say they were so humiliated they wouldn't have subjected themselves to such what they perceive to bein deg knits at the time. what are you asking for? >> to compensate her for her reputation, for damage to her good name and reputation. her standing within the community and her friends and relatives. ...