Approving a bill to provide nearly $1 billion over the next five years to test "rape kits," the House yesterday jumped into the long-standing issue of warehoused and untested DNA samples from more...
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Michael Jerome Brown, 44, was in prison for burglary in Maryland in 2003 when investigators found his DNA matched genetic material kept in a rape kit from a 1993 assault on a 9 year old girl. more...
President George W. Bush signed a bill yesterday requiring that convicted child molesters be listed on a nationwide Internet registry, an idea that got a boost from research by a Long more...
Luis Perez, a 40 year old handyman, was charged this week with two sex-attack strangulations in San Jose dating back to the 1980s, and is a suspect in a similar 1996 murder in San Francisco. more...
After 13 years, DNA evidence convicted a man of raping and murdering an 11 year old Alison Parrott. The semen in her body matched with 41 year old Francis Roy. He faces a life sentence with no more...
Jeffrey Pierce, 39, was convicted of rape in 1986 and lost his freedom and his family. His marriage ended in divorce and his wife left Oklahoma to raise their twin infant sons as if he did not more...
The five young men whose convictions in the Central Park jogger case were overturned probably participated in the attack, a Police Department report concludes. "The most likely scenario for the more...
Eddie Albert Crawford, a 57 year old man who kidnapped, raped and murdered his 2 year old niece, was executed last night after the Supreme Court rejected his request for a stay. Defense more...
Millions of coasters that test for "date-rape" drugs in drinks are being bought by colleges around the country. However, according to forensic scientist Anne Gierlowski, tests at Michigan State more...
Edwin Gomez, a 29 year old Queens man, was charged with raping a 13 year old girl nearly seven years ago, thanks to a DNA sample he gave when he was arrested for stealing the identity of an Army more...