After 3 Years and $1.5 Million Testing Rape Kits, Alaska Made One New Arrest.

Dec. 30, 2020, 11 a.m. EST LAWLESS In the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation,testing the backlog of rape kits may not be enough. In even more cases, the sealed rape kits wereopened to reveal no usable suspect DNA at all. In Washington state, federal Sexual Assault Kit Initiative grantspaid for the testing of 5,096 backlogged rape kits as of Nov. 30,but the state attorney general's office and a state patrolspokesman could not say how many charges had been filed as aresult. [Extracted from the article]