The New Yorker8d
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 ...
‘The Secret History of the Rape Kit’ reveals how one woman changed forensics, then disappeared.
Journalist Pagan Kennedy tells the story of Marty Goddard who created the rape kit but allowed others to get the credit before dropping out of sight.
The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics
Designed to gather and preserve biological evidence found on the body of a person reporting a sexual assault, it introduced standardized forensics into the investigation of rape where there had ...
DIY testing could put rape survivors 'at risk'
Self-swab DNA testing could put rape survivors "at risk", forensic experts say, with a leading lawyer adding he is "horrified ...
Los Angeles Daily News12d
‘The Secret History of the Rape Kit’ reveals how one woman changed forensics, then disappeared.
Kennedy recounts her odyssey in “The Secret History of the Rape Kit ... change policing, forensics and evidence handling. “The important thing with the Chicago kit was that it was really ...