Category Archive for : ‘UNSOLVED SEX CRIMES SOLVED’

By the Chronicle, Centralia

CENTRALIA — In an announcement on Tuesday, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the completion of one phase of his office’s “lawfully owed DNA project,” an effort to collect DNA samples from registered sex offenders from whom a required DNA sample had never been collected.

The successful completion of the project has resulted in 372 DNA samples being added to the Combined DNA Index System, CODIS, a national DNA database.

According to Ferguson, eight of those samples have matched DNA evidence already in the database. Of those eight matches,

By Tony Keith

MESA, Ariz. (KKTV) – A man taken into custody by authorities in Colorado Springs is suspected of several heinous crimes in connection with a cold case that is more than 30 years old.

On Tuesday, police in Mesa, Arizona, shared some details on how DNA evidence linked 58-year-old Thomas Cox to the murder of one woman and the sexual assault of a second.

According to police, investigators believe Cox sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman on Oct. 16, 1989 in her apartment and then killed her. The investigation revealed the 22-year-old

By: News 12 Staff

Police arrested 46-year-old Ramon Rotestan in connection with a rape in an elevator of a residential building in the Bronx.

The incident happened around 10 p.m. Monday. Surveillance video from the NYPD shows a suspect believed to be Rotestan following a woman into a building near Bolton Street before following that woman into an elevator, where police say the woman was raped.

“The way things are now, you got to always be looking over your shoulders, you know what I mean?” said William Ponte, a neighborhood resident for nearly

Author: Natalie Swaby

SEATTLE — The effort to end the rape kit backlog has been a focus for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office runs the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.

Eight years ago, Washington had more than 10,000 untested rape kits.

“We had a number of kits sitting on shelves for a number of reasons,” state Representative Tina Orwall said in March.

Lawmakers like Orwall pushed for change, and progress has been made with thousands of kits tested, but there is still plenty of work to do.

“There is another problem that’s related, which

By Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News

A 62-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman found murdered behind a restaurant in Wildwood, N.J. in 1990, authorities said.

Jerry Rosado, linked to the crime through DNA, could face additional charges as investigators learn more, the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Rosado was busted Friday and charged with sexually assaulting 20-year-old college student Susan Negersmith on Memorial Day weekend in May 1990.

Negersmith lived in Carmel, NY, in Putnam County, and was vacationing with friends when she was killed.

Her partially clothed body