Former Morganfield Police Chief Sentenced
Craig Bolds was sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of public trust and theft. October 3, 2017The former chief of the Morganfield Police Department in Union County is sentenced after admitting to stealing evidence.Craig Bolds was sentenced to three years in...
Testing old rape kits leads to first indictment in Louisville
The testing has led to 110 matches to national or state DNA databases, possibly providing police new leads in old cases. But the matches were not necessarily linked to known people July 23, 2027A convicted rapist on the state’s lifetime sex offender registry is...
Police begin reopening rape cases as Kentucky tests old DNA evidence
Kentucky has shipped 3,173 untested rape kits to a private laboratory in Utah for forensic analysis, to determine if DNA evidence can be retrieved. April 15, 2017Kentucky prosecutors must prepare for a wave of newly reopened sexual assault cases as several thousand...
Kentucky State Police Lab becoming training ground for other state labs because of low pay, lab director says
Analysts in Kentucky are now ranked as the lowest paid in the entire United States, and KSP Forensic Laboratory System Director Laura Sudkamp told Pure Politics she is the lowest paid director in the nation, “by a long shot.” March 23, 2017Editor’s...
