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Chester man gets 20 years for Wilmington rape spree
— DJ McAneny, WDEL, Jan 10, 2020

A Pennsylvania man is heading to prison for 20 years after raping seven women in secluded Wilmington locations over the course of five years, the Delaware Department of Justice announced Friday.

Raleigh man charged in decade-old Fayetteville sex assault case
— WRAL, Jan 7, 2020

Man charged in connection with 2009 sexual assault based on DNA evidence that had not been tested previously.

Two men are charged in separate sexual assaults after the testing of rape kits
— Sophie Cockie, Star Advertiser, Jan 1, 2020

Two men have been charged with sexual assault on Hawaii island following a statewide effort to test hundreds of rape kits that for years sat unprocessed in county storage facilities.

Possible serial rapists ID'd in testing of backlogged rape kits in Jefferson Co.
— Cynthia Gould, ABC 33/49, Dec 23, 2019

Jefferson County SAKI has inventoried 4000 previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits. So far, 500 kits have been tested and 52 produced CODIS hits.

'Bound and sexually assaulted': Charlotte cold case cleared through DNA after nearly 30 years, police say
— Fox 46 Charlotte, Dec 18, 2019

A man is facing several charges including second-degree rape and kidnapping in connection to a sexual assault that occurred in the 1990s in southeast Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.

Mid-South Man Identified through Sexual Assault Kit Testing Gets Multiple Life Sentences for Kidnapping and Rape of Six Women Over Seven Years
— U.S. DOJ Western District of Tennessee, Dec 16, 2019

Michael Love, 46, a Horn Lake, MS resident, has been sentenced to life in federal prison after having been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting six women in Memphis and attempting to kidnap and rape a seventh between 2008 and 2015.

Man charged with two New Orleans rapes reported 24 years apart
— Nola.com, Dec 12, 2019

An Orleans Parish grand jury on Thursday charged a man with two rapes which were 24 years apart.

With new federal grant, Duluth moves from testing rape kits to prosecuting cases
— Katie Galioto, StarTribune, Dec 11, 2019

During their SAKI project, Duluth has tested 444 kits, that have led to 126 CODIS Hits, 5 convictions, and 13 charges filed,

An evaluation of Kentucky’s sexual assault investigator training: results from a randomized three-group experiment
— Journal of Experimental Criminology, Dec 10, 2019

This study evaluated a 40-h statewide sexual assault investigations training program implemented in Kentucky in 2017. The study examined short- and long-term effects of training on police officers’ self-reported rape myth acceptance, knowledge of state laws, and knowledge of trauma-informed practices.

Dead man charged in cold-case sex assault near Ballantyne in south Charlotte, cops say
— Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, Dec 7, 2019

Police on Friday said they charged a convict who died in 2014 in connection with the 1993 sexual assault of a woman near Ballantyne in south Charlotte based on new DNA testing.