Marty Goddard changed how we think about sexual assault. A new history looks at why you have never heard of her
The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...
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The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics
The sexual-assault-evidence collection box, colloquially known as the “rape kit,” is a simple yet potent tool: a small case, perhaps made of cardboard, containing items such as sterile nail ...
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The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...
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Righteous Victims
Finally, the sexual assault evidence collection kit—more commonly known as a rape kit—is complete. The examiner seals the small cardboard box and, with it, all of the woman’s hope for ...
Man sentenced to prison in 1994 Attleboro rape
A 51-year-old man convicted in a violent 1994 rape case out of Attleboro, Massachusetts, was sentenced to prison by a Fall River Superior Court judge on Monday, the Bristol County District Attorney’s ...
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New Jersey Gov. Murphy signs bill formalizing a tracking system for rape kits
FILE - This Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, Utah State Crime Lab Director Jay Henry holds a sexual assault evidence collection kit following a committee meeting at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City.
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A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
Rape kits are boxes used to collect evidence after a sexual assault. The kit's invention was commonly credited to a Chicago police sergeant named Louis Vitullo, who had died in 2006. But as Kennedy ...
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A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
Rape kits are boxes used to collect evidence after a sexual assault. The kit's invention was commonly credited to a Chicago police sergeant named Louis Vitullo, who had died in 2006. But as ...
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The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics
The sexual-assault-evidence collection box, colloquially known as the “rape kit,” is a simple yet potent tool: a small case, perhaps made of cardboard, containing items such as sterile nail clippers, ...