On a bonus episode (first released on May 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Buried in an evidence room, a DNA swab held the key to catching a serial sex offender. But no one tested it for years.

Emily Zaballos sat at a bare table in a windowless room, waiting to be interviewed by the police. It was April 2020, and she was waiting to speak with a detective about a rape report she had filed a ...

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department says it’s massively shrinking its backlog of untested sexual assault kits. The department’s crime lab reduced the backlog to 160 untested and unpending kits, ...

Thousands of sexual assault evidence kits languished untested in the city of San Diego for years. The tests, comprised of DNA samples and other evidence, can be lengthy and invasive for survivors.

When Oregon State Police announced in 2018 that they had eliminated a massive backlog of unprocessed sexual assault evidence kits, officials celebrated ending a decades-old managerial and moral ...

Untested: A new podcast takes listeners inside a detective's hunt for a sexual predator WARNING: This video contains descriptions of sexual assault. In Untested, an exclusive podcast from USA TODAY ...