It's a match.

AuthorBrown, Elizabeth Nolan
PositionRape kits revisited - Backlog of untested rape kits - Brief article

A FEW years ago, Houston found that it had a backlog of more than 6,600 untested "rape kits," the medical forensic evidence collected from alleged sexual-assault victims. Since 2013, the city has focused on clearing this archive of potential DNA evidence, and it has gotten some encouraging results.

As of February 2015, testing the kits had turned up 850 hits from the FBI's criminal forensic database, leading to charges against 29 individuals and six convictions. Police are still reviewing DNA matches to see if more charges are warranted. "Now that the testing of these kits is complete, we know that it's up to us to finish the job and to seek justice for these victims," Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson told The Associated Press.

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