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"Indictment in Nine Year Old Cold Case Defendant is Charged With Sexual Assault in D.C. and Maryland"
— Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia, Sep 15, 2023
"Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 37, of Washington D.C. and Prince George’s County, Maryland, was arraigned today on charges stemming from a 2014 cold case involving a stranger sexual assault, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Acting Chief Pamela Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
This case was brought as part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia’s Cold Case Sexual Assault Initiative and investigated by MPD’s Sexual Assault Unit. In February 2018, the U.S. "
DNA links Kentucky man to 2005 sexual assault in Louisville
— WHAS11 Staff, Aug 29, 2023
"A program used to solve sexual assault crimes in Kentucky has led to the arrest of a man in a decades old case. Kentucky State Police funding from their sexual assault kit initiative (SAKI) to charge 53-year-old George Wayne Aldridge. The SAKI grant program is funded by the Department of Justice and gives money to police departments to address the backlogs of untested sexual assault kits."
Trial for man facing 21 sex crimes underway
— WVTM13, Jon Paepcke, Aug 28, 2023
"The trial of a man accused of victimizing more than a dozen women is underway in Jefferson County.
Jonathan Fitzgerald "Master" Lockett is facing 35 total felonies, two-thirds of which are sex crimes."
Authorities identify killer in 1987 cold case on Arizona hiking trail
— AZ Family Digital News Staff, Aug 26, 2023
"The murder of 23-year-old Cathy Sposito was unsolved, but remained open and active for 36 years. Cathy rode her bike to a trailhead and began a hike. However, hikers in the area later reported hearing screams for help. By the time they found Sposito, she was dead. Investigators found she was shot in the eye, stabbed and hit in the head with a rock and ratchet.
Sheriff David Rhodes named Bryan Scott Bennett as Sposito’s killer. Bennett also allegedly had more victims in northern Arizona who were attacked and sexually assaulted. SAKI funds were used to support the genealogy work as well as travel for the investigation and exhumation of Bennet's remains."
After nearly 30 years, North Texas police charge man with sexually assaulting woman, child
— James Hartley, Star-telegram, Aug 23, 2023
"Denton police arrested a 53-year-old man in two sexual assault and child sexual assault cold cases nearly 30 years after the rapes occurred in 1993 and 1997, according to a news release from police. Marcus Deshaun Johnson was connected to the two cases through DNA evidence collected at the time, according to the news release. Police announced his arrest Tuesday.
A National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative grant also provided funding to support Denton police efforts to solve sexual assault cold cases."
DNA analysis helps lead to an arrest in a 1991 Durham rape case
— The News and Observer, AARON SÁNCHEZ-GUERRA, Aug 22, 2023
"A Durham man is accused of breaking into a woman’s home and raping her 32 years ago. Kenneth Lunsford, 60, was arrested by the Durham Police Department’s Cold Case Unit on Aug. 17 through the state’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), which matched his DNA to evidence collected from a sexual assault kit."
DNA project that led to arrest in McCleary rape case reaches milestone
— Harbor News, KXRO, Aug 11, 2023
"Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his lawfully owed DNA project has reached a milestone, with more than 2,000 new profiles added to the national DNA database since the effort began.
“Collecting the DNA of thousands of serious offenders will help us solve more cold cases,” Ferguson said. “This work makes communities safer and sends the message that we will use every tool at our disposal to bring justice to survivors and victims of these devastating crimes.”
Police arrest serial rape suspect in Baltimore County
— Tommie Clark, WBALTV, Aug 3, 2023
"James Shipe was arrested for the rape of at least five women between 1978 and 1986. Evidence that tied Shipe to the crimes came from the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Slide Project. Shipe previously faced a charge in 1970 for assault with intent to rape and was arrested in 1998 for a trespassing "peeping Tom" incident in the same area as the five rape cases."
Fugitive who faked his death can be extradited to Utah to face a rape charge
— Brian Melley Associated Press, KSLTV, Aug 2, 2023
"The documents allege that Rossi raped a former girlfriend he had met on myspace.com and briefly dated in Orem, Utah. The woman reported the sexual assault to a local hospital and her rape kit was tested as part of the “sexual assault kit initiative” in 2017. The DNA found connected investigators to Rossi."
