Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, ...

Newly released police records detail the initial police response, witness accounts and critical forensic evidence in the ...

Forensic evidence can be an important tool in solving and prosecuting sexual assault cases, but some victims don't feel comfortable coming forward to police or medical examiners right away. Enter ...

Soon after, he introduced the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination. The initial funding, assembly of the kits, and graphic design was organized by the Playboy Foundation.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Should survivors of sexual assault be able to collect their own DNA evidence after the crime? It’s a controversial issue a Maryland committee has been tasked with looking ...

The Virginia Department of Forensic Science has purchased 1,000 such kits — designed to collect evidence from a victim’s neck and fingernails — to be sent to forensic nursing teams at hospita… ...

And, in the annals of injustices to women, it is difficult to know where to rank the fact that a forensic-evidence kit, created under the aegis of the Chicago Police Department’s crime lab, ...

The measure, sponsored by state Sens. Renee Burgess and Paul Moriarty, would require the state’s attorney general to establish a sexual assault forensic evidence kit, or rape kit, tracking system.

All submitted kits must be tested. Her counterpart in the lower chamber, Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, D-Mercer, said that “establishing a tracking system for sexual assault forensic ...