WVTM 13 Investigates: Work to erase huge rape kit backlog continues in Jefferson County
Nearly 4,000 rape kits went untested for decades February 7, 2022BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —A special team of investigators, prosecutors and advocates are helping eliminate a large rape kit backlog in Jefferson County. So far, more than a third of the untested sexual assault...
Jury awards 3 KSP troopers $900K in whistleblower case
“This gentleman thought it was a good idea — if, for whatever reason — to steal this evidence from an open case,” Burton said. “And then stamp the property form, evidence form, destroyed by fire when in fact they weren’t destroyed by...
‘Why’d you take my mama?’: Cold case victim’s sons confront man sentenced in 1981 Lakeland murder
Mills became Lakeland Police Department’s main suspect in 2019 after DNA submitted through an online ancestry database February 9, 2022BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — Four decades of grief, pain and loss culminated in an emotional confrontation in a Polk County...
Key evidence found in 40-year-old Broward murder cold case Wilton Manors police send physical items out for DNA testing
Since sitting down with police, they began looking for missing evidence. In an email, the police department said they have now located fingerprints and the physical evidence that was sent for testing. February 04, 2022WILTON MANORS, Fla. – After a Local 10...
