FBI delay kept DNA unlinked
They compared the DNA to 7 million known samples from criminals and prison inmates across the country, but they did not find a match. Meanwhile, the invasions continued, with perhaps nine more similar attacks in Sarasota and Manatee counties, including some where victims were sexually assaulted...
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- News Source: Bradenton Herald | about 1 month agoInvestigators from Manatee have re-interviewed witnesses and are culling through evidence that could implicate Delmer Smith III in several home invasion and other attacks. But their sense of urgency appears tempered by the strength of the four cases...
- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month agoFBI statistics show that rapes notified to the police dropped by one-third to 29 for every 100,000 people last year, down from 43 in 1992 when DNA testing was only just beginning to be widely used in law enforcement...Victims' rights groups say that...
- News Source: Herald Tribune | about 1 month agoThey compared the DNA to 7 million known samples from criminals and prison inmates across the country, but they did not find a match. Meanwhile, the invasions continued, with perhaps nine more similar attacks in Sarasota and Manatee counties,...
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- Blog Source: www.mcclatchydc.comWhen Smith went to prison in 1995, the law did not mandate taking DNA from federal convicts. But in 2000, with the enactment of the DNA Backlog Elimination Act, federal authorities began obtaining samples from offenders. ...
- Blog Source: gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.comStill, officials say the backlog has increased the urgency for a proposed regional forensic lab that would merge the labs of Houston and Harris County. "If you have all those rape kits that are untested, that means there are predators, ...
- Blog Source: springsblogger.blogspot.comThe challenge comes as authorities struggle to keep up with the flood of DNA samples collected under the law. Some 53000 samples from California have yet to enter the state's database — a backlog comprised, in part, of DNA from people who have not .
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