America’s massive backlog of DNA evidence collected after rapes is finally being analyzed and run through a national database. But what happens when survivors are told their rapist has been found — sometimes decades after the attack?

America’s massive backlog of DNA evidence collected after rapes is finally being analyzed and run through a national database. 

But what happens when survivors are told their rapist has been found — sometimes decades after the attack?

Jun. 22 2015
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