Seattle Police to start DNA testing on more than 1,200 stored rape kits

In a move being applauded by victim-advocacy groups, The Seattle Police Department will begin testing the 1,276 rape kits it has stored. Following a sexual assault, victims often undergo a forensic examination that collects potential evidence like blood, semen, and saliva, and preserves it in a kit. When a kit is tested, the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab enters the results into the Combined DNA Index System, an FBI database with DNA profiles, and looks to see if there is a match. Of the 1,64...