Facts and Stats
~ Where the Backlog Exists and What’s Happening to End It – ENDTHEBACKLOG
Vides – Untested Rape Kits
~ 9 On Your Side investigates rape kit backlog in East – WNCT9 – VIDEO
~ 400,000 rape kits sitting untested nationwide – USA Today – VIDEO
~ 6,424 untested rape kits in Arizona – YouTube
~ 7,000 backlogged rape kits untested in Missouri- what’s next- – YouTube
~ 13,000 Florida rape test kits backlogged – YouTube
~ 400,000 rape kits left untested in U.S. – YouTube
~ Backlog In Rape Kit Testing Persists – NBC Chicago – VIDEO
~ Call to Action for Untested Rape Kits – YouTube
~ Disturbing new evidence reveals 10K rape kits remain untested – YouTube
~ Forgotten evidence from untested rape kits could bring justice to victims – YouTube
~ I-TEAM- 61 cases under investigation as rape kit test results return – YouTube
~ Massive backlog of untested rape kits is ‘a public safety issue’ that may be letting offenders slip away, experts warn – ABC – VIDEO
~ More rape kits sent to lab for testing – YouTube
~ More than 15,000 untested sex assault kits in NC – YouTube
~ No Justice- How The Chicago Police Department Has Failed To Solve Thousands Of Rape Cases In Last Decade – CBS Chicago – VIDEO
~ Rape Kit Backlog – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee – TBS – YouTube
~ Rape Kits Collect Dust, Victims Robbed of Justice – YouTube
~ Rape victim- Thousands of untested kits a ‘travesty’ – USA Today – VIDEO
~ Report Gives Chicago Police ‘Beyond A Failing Grade’ For Poor Clearance Rate Of Sexual Assault Cases – CBS Chicago – VIDEO
~ Report: More than 3,000 untested rape kits in Kentucky – CNN – VIDEO
~ Some rape kits may be too late to prosecute – YouTube
~ Thousands of Rape Kits Gone Untested Across the U.S. – NBC Nightly News – YouTube
~ Thousands of Untested Rape Kits Sit In Bay Area Police Property Rooms – YouTube
~ Untested Rape Kits – YouTube
~ Untested rape kits- Revisited – YouTube
~ Why 70% of Tucson Police’s rape kits are untested – YouTube
~ Why Thousands Of Rape Kits Go Untested In Minnesota – YouTube
Contaminated
~ Exterior of hundreds of rape kits found covered with mold, Austin police say – kvue.com – VIDEO
~ Nearly 850 rape kits growing mold at Austin Police Dept — RT USA News
Destroyed
~ Baltimore County Police Destroyed More Rape Kits Than Stated – CBS Baltimore – VIDEO
~ Report- MD police throwing out untested rape kits – YouTube
~ Springfield police- ‘We should never have destroyed rape kits’ – Springfield News-Leader – VIDEO
Tested after Years
~ 24 DNA matches found in first 150 rape kits tested under new law – YouTube
~ 11,341 rape kits left inside Detroit Police storage have now been tested 10 years later – YouTube
~ DNA results found in 900+ untested rape kits in Austin police backlog – YouTube
~ Man Pleads Guilty After Rape Kits Link Him To Attacks – YouTube
~ Rapists ID’d by DNA tests behind bars – YouTube
Mainstream News Articles – Untested Rape Kits
- ~ 9 On Your Side investigates rape kit backlog in East – WNCT9
- ~ 10 Crucial Facts About Rape Kits — True Even in Texas – HuffPost
- ~ 400,000 rape kits sitting untested nationwide – USA Today
- ~ A Nationwide Epidemic of Untested Rape Kits – The Atlantic Daily
- ~ After 3 Years and $1.5 Million Testing Rape Kits, Alaska Made One New Arrest — ProPublica
- ~ Backlog In Rape Kit Testing Persists – NBC Chicago
- ~ Cleveland Police Will Now Test All Rape Kits – CBS News
- ~ Cleveland still has thousands of older rape kits to test, exact number is unknown – cleveland.com
- ~ Congress poised to approve $41 million to help clear backlog of untested rape kits – The Washington Post
- ~ Dallas has the largest backlog of rape kits in the state — by a long shot – Dallas News
- ~ Delayed Justice- Previously untested rape kits help convict a Cleveland serial rapist – MSN
- ~ For years, Illinois has promised to clear a backlog of rape kits. So why are victims still waiting? – The Pantagraph
- ~ Her rape kit sat untested for 23 years. Now, Coral Springs police have made an arrest. – The Washington Post.url
- ~ How Detroit cop culture hindered rape investigations – Detroit Free Press
- ~ How Did the FBI Miss Over 1 Million Rapes? – The Nation
- ~ How Many of the Hundreds of Thousands of Untested Rape Kits in the US Are in Your City? – HuffPost
- ~ How Police Still Fail Rape Victims – Rolling Stone
- ~ How the U.S. Ended Up With 400,000 Untested Rape Kits – The Daily Beast
- ~ Illinois clears DNA evidence backlog by 31 percent – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Illinois rape kit backlog persists despite years of promises to fix it – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Illinois Sexual Assault Victims Can Now Track Rape Kits But System Does Not Track Backlog Of 6,000 – CBS Chicago
- ~ Illinois State Police swamped with DNA tests on rapes, murders – Chicago Sun-Times
- ~ KARE 11- More untested rape kits discovered in Minnesota – kare11.com
- ~ Kym Worthy Pursues Rape Cases With 11,000 Forgotten Rape Kits – Time
- ~ Manhattan District Attorney rape kit backlog grants lead to 186 arrests nationwide – ABC News
- ~ Massive backlog of untested rape kits is ‘a public safety issue’ that may be letting offenders slip away, experts warn – ABC
- ~ Memphis police discover 200 unprocessed rape kits adding to backlog – Rape and sexual assault – The Guardian
- ~ Minneapolis officials discover 1,700 untested rape kits – ABC News
- ~ Minneapolis Police Admit to Finding 1,500 Untested Rape Kits – Time
- ~ Mpls. police discover 1,700 untested rape kits over 30 years – StarTribune.com
- ~ Nearly 14,000 rape kits in California remain untested – The Sacramento Bee
- ~ No Justice- How The Chicago Police Department Has Failed To Solve Thousands Of Rape Cases In Last Decade – CBS Chicago
- ~ Oakland police have 1,200 untested rape kits, second most in California, audit finds – San Francisco Chronicle
- ~ Old Rape Kits Finally Got Tested. 64 Attackers Were Convicted. – The New York Times
- ~ Omaha Police are working through 1,700 untested rape kits in effort to solve cold cases – WOWT6
- ~ Over 1,000 arrests made in rape cases after authorities tackle national rape kit backlog – TheHill
- ~ Thousands of untested rape kits gathering dust on police storage shelves; delay justice for years – Fox News
- ~ Rape Kit Backlog Testing- How Detroit Became the Leader of the Movement – PEOPLE.com
- ~ Rape kit tracker website now available for victims- Illinois State Police – Chicago Sun-Times
- ~ Rape Kits Data, By the Numbers – CBS News
- ~ Rape test backlog never went away – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Rape victim- Thousands of untested kits a ‘travesty’ – USA Today
- ~ Report Gives Chicago Police ‘Beyond A Failing Grade’ For Poor Clearance Rate Of Sexual Assault Cases – CBS Chicago
- ~ She’s been waiting 15 months for her rape kit to be processed. A new proposal to track evidence aims to change that. – Chicago Tribune
- ~ State crime lab takes a year to test rape kits, Alvarez says – Chicago Sun-Times
- ~ Tens of thousands of rape kits go untested across USA – USA Today
- ~ #TesttheKits- Thousands of rape kits go untested – USA Today
- ~ The rape kit ‘backlog’ narrative lets police off the hook – The Boston Globe.url
- ~ Thousands of rape kits remain untested across Maryland – WBALTV
- ~ Thousands of rape kits still not tested – Green Bay Press Gazette
- ~ Thousands of Rape Kits Wait to be Tested – CBS News
- ~ Thousands of Rapists Are Not Behind Bars Because Cops Focus on Marijuana Users – HuffPost
- ~ Thousands of Texas Rape Kits Never Tested – The Texas Tribune
- ~ Thousands of rape kits are currently untested. Kamala Harris has a plan to change that. – Vox
- ~ Unnecessary Rape Kit DNA Clogging Up Crime Lab – NPR
- ~ Untested rape kits leave thousands of serial rapists at large – Axios
- ~ Untested Rape Kits Hid 817 Serial Predators In Detroit, Tens Of Thousands More Concealed In Backlog Across U.S – Newsweek
- ~ Why Don’t Police Catch Serial Rapists? – The Atlantic
Mainstream News Articles – Destroyed Rape Kits
- ~ Baltimore County Police Destroyed More Rape Kits Than Stated – CBS Baltimore
- ~ Charlotte-Mecklenburg police destroyed rape kits in more than 1,000 cases – Charlotte Observer
- ~ CNN Investigation Finds Police Officers Destroyed Hundreds of Rape Kits – Jezebel.com
- ~ Destroyed- How the trashing of rape kits failed victims and jeopardizes public safety – CNN
- ~ Exterior of hundreds of rape kits found covered with mold, Austin police say – kvue.com
- ~ Fayetteville police- More than 300 rape kits destroyed – WXII12
- ~ KARE 11 Investigates- Police in Minnesota destroyed hundreds of rape kits, putting cases in peril – kare11.com
- ~ How rape cases went wrong- Police files show flawed investigations led to the trashing of evidence – CNN
- ~ In Unusual Step, Victims Told Of Destroyed Rape Kits – CBS Baltimore
- ~ Maryland police departments destroyed 270 rape kits over the last two years – Baltimore Sun
- ~ Memphis Sued For Throwing Away 15K Untested Rape Kits – Opposing Views
- ~ NC police telling victims that rape kits were destroyed – Las Vegas Review-Journal
- ~ Nearly 850 rape kits growing mold at Austin Police Dept — RT USA News
- ~ Police Department Apologizes For Destroying Hundreds Of Rape Kits – CBS Denver
- ~ Police departments destroying rape kits outrages Maryland lawmakers – WBALTV
- ~ Rape kits untested in Kentucky, destroyed in N.C. – CNN
- ~ Some States Throw Untested Rape Kits In The Trash. These Survivors Want To Change That. – HuffPost
- ~ Springfield police- ‘We should never have destroyed rape kits’ – Springfield News-Leader
- ~ Victims’ hopes for justice fade as rape kits are routinely ignored or destroyed – Rape and sexual assault – The Guardian
- ~ Why have police destroyed rape kits? 5 takeaways from CNN’s investigation into rape kit destruction – CNN
Independent News Articles
- ~ Addressing the Rape Kit Backlog – RAINN
- ~ Ending the Rape Kit Backlog – The United State of Women
- ~ Illinois’s Failure to Test Rape Kits – HRW
- ~ Multiple Depts Caught Not Only Ignoring Rape Kits, But Destroying Them With No Investigation – The Free Thought Project
- ~ Rape-Kit Backlog Increases Despite Politicians’ Efforts – Illinois Family Institute
- ~ Rapists Fret Not, Cops Far More Interested in the Drug War. 400,000 Rape Kits Never Tested – The Free Thought Project
- ~ The Backlog of 400,000 Unprocessed Rape Kits Is A Disgrace – The New Republic
- ~ The Horrifying Consequences of Our National Rape Kit Backlog – Alternet.org
- ~ Untested Sexual Assault Kits Destroyed by Police Department – TheHumanist.com
- ~ What is the Rape Kit Backlog? – ENDTHEBACKLOG
- ~ Why Are More Than 100,000 Rape Kits Still Untested? – Forensics Colleges
- ~ Women All Over the Country Are Suing Police for Failing to Test Their Rape Kits – Mother Jones
Reports
Websites
~ Data Brief- Rape Kit Backlog – What We Do and Don’t Know – chicagojusticeproject