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Note: Cumulative performance metrics are updated quarterly based on state and local level reports.
Canadian man sentenced in Old Bridge woman's 1997 strangling in Bridgewater
— Mike Deak, MyCentralJersey.com, Jul 28, 2025
"A Canadian man has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison for killing a woman in Bridgewater almost 28 years ago, one of Somerset County's oldest cold cases.
In January 2023, detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit met with detectives from the New Jersey State Police Cold Case Unit as part of their Garden State Cold Case Network and Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Grant to discuss the ongoing investigation.
As a result, detectives determined that evidence collected in the investigation could be resubmitted for DNA testing, which may not have been possible in previous years."
SAKI Division Secures Conviction in Violent Home Invasion and Sexual Assault Case
— orleansda.com, Jul 10, 2025
"District Attorney Jason Williams and members of his Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Unit (SAKI) are pleased to announce that a conviction was secured in the case of State v. Ericson Gonzalez. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to Second Degree Rape, Aggravated Burglary, three counts of Second Degree Kidnapping, three counts of Armed Robbery, Aggravated Battery, Home Invasion, and Possession of Stolen Property.
In early 2022, Gonzalez terrorized the Vietnamese community in New Orleans East, including two incidents charged in this case, in a series of home burglaries, during which the defendant was armed with a gun. The home invasion case included the sexual assault of a victim in her 70s and the beating of an additional victim in his 70s. DNA evidence collected in that case was linked to Gonzalez."
Authorities identify missing woman's remains related to 2022 cold case
— Barclay Idsal, kivitv.com, Jul 9, 2025
"Pickett was known as a transient who had previously resided in Spokane, Washington and Ogden, Utah. She was last seen in the Pocatello area on October 20, 2019. Her family has been notified of the positive identification.
The identification is the result of an investigative partnership between the Power County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), the ISP Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) team, ISP Forensic Services Division, as well as other municipal, state, and federal agencies."
SAKI is enhancing the criminal justice response to sexual assault and ensuring justice for victims. SAKI funding will not only help link victims to advocates and needed services, but also help jurisdictions implement best practices and comprehensive reform to help bring perpetrators to justice and increase safety in communities by preventing future sexual assaults.
Sign up for upcoming webinars or watch webinars from the SAKI archive. Presentations feature practitioners and experts with years of experience in current and cold case sexual assault. The webinars cover investigations, forensic testing, prosecution strategies, victim notification, the neurobiology of trauma, offender research, and more
Choose from five E-Learning Curricula that provide guidance on issues related to unsubmitted sexual assault kits. The courses walk learners through the importance of SAK testing, the effects of trauma, creating a testing plan, victim notification, cold case investigation and prosecution. Individual modules allow learners to complete trainings at their own pace.
Explore hands-on resources tailored for practitioners working to improve their community's response to sexual assault. The SAKI Toolkit contains topics centered around skill development and covers the key categories of sexual assault response. Explore resources, save tools to a customizable Briefcase, or create resource sets to share with others.
SAKI is committed to helping survivors of sexual assault. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available through the resources provided by our partners.
Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative aims to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases. Through this program, funding is provided to support multidisciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
