Rape
A woman whose rape kit DNA was used by San Francisco police to arrest her for an unrelated property crime is now planning to sue the city
Tips on safely maintaining services for sexual assault survivors in today’s socially distanced world
Detective Ashley Nolan of the Chandler Police Department in Arizona details how her PD solved a sexual assault cold case from 1986
The long processing times were called into question last year when a man was convicted of a 2021 rape weeks after killing a woman in 2022
The backlog includes about 1,200 kits from before 2016 and 450 kits collected from 2016 to 2019
Melvin Emde was charged with statutory child rape in North Carolina, allegedly faked his drowning death in the Mississippi River and was arrested in Georgia
The victim says the Spokane Police Department ignored “red flags” in the officer’s behavior, contributing to the assault
The police department’s crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the district attorney’s office
Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, will die in prison for his guilty pleas to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges between 1975 and 1986, said Judge Michael Bowman
The challenge in sexual assault cases often isn’t identifying the perpetrator, but whether or not the occurrence of a crime can be proved
Learn why yes/no victim interview questions by police can set victims up for failure and potentially impede the progress of criminal cases
Follow these seven steps to increase the odds a case is prosecuted
Longtime Philadelphia inspector Carl Holmes has been suspended with the intent to dismiss
The South Dakota Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether police investigating the possible statutory rape of a girl needed a warrant to seize a placenta
Start from the premise that every person who reports a sexual assault deserves a thorough, unbiased investigation
To understand a victim’s response to sexual assault, it is important to understand the effects trauma has on the victim’s ability to recall information
The Idaho Sexual Assault Kit Initiative focused on developing a model statewide policy for testing sexual assault kits
In a letter, O’Neill offered the woman his “heartfelt apology for all aspersions cast upon your credibility by NYPD personnel those many years ago”
National groups want all untested rape kits tested and the results fed into national DNA database
Experts say testing them promptly and comparing them to federal DNA databases for hits is crucial
Two convicted sex offenders suspected in the murders of 4 women checked in with police every month and wore their GPS trackers around the clock
In Memphis, Tenn., alone, there are more than 12,000 untested rape kits going back to the 1980s
Maintaining the chain of evidence is crucial
The value of evidence is limited in court unless investigators take care to properly collect, preserve and analyze it