Internal audit of Minneapolis rape kit backlog highlights testing concerns
We need the BCA to be responsive to some of these kits,” said audit committee Enter Article DATE HEREUpdated: February 03, 2020 10:10 PMA new audit shows dozens of rape kits on the shelves of the Minneapolis Police Department have gone untested, even months...
Documents: $4,000 in military surplus misplaced in Randolph sheriff’s office
That inventory also found that a gun held as evidence and checked out by the deputy, Roy Hardt, was not in the department’s possession. It was one of 21 guns checked out by deputies from the evidence collection for use on duty. The guns were not attached to...
CRIME HUNTER: DNA links ‘monster’ to 1976 slaying
The magic elixir for solving the case was DNA and genetic genealogy. Enter Article DATE HEREOn Jan. 12, 1976, Pamela Maurer left a pal’s house to get a soda from a bodega.The 16-year-old vanished into thin air and was never seen alive again.Her frozen body...
Five years later, authorities address rape kit backlog in Flint
Leyton said in the last five years, they’ve been able to process all 736 backlogged rape kits, sending them to the lab. Enter Article DATE HEREFLINT, Mich — In 2015, between 230 and 250 untested rape kits were found in the city of Flint. The police chief at...
