Out-of-state laboratory workers discovered 555 additional untested rape packages while testing some of the untested rape kits that were found in 2009 in a police warehouse, Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller told MLive.com.
The additional rape kits were collected by Detroit police in 2010 and 2011, and eventually sent for testing in 2015.
That delay allowed one suspected serial rapist whose DNA was collected in a 2010 rape kit to go uncharged in one rape for nearly seven years. He wasn’t arrested until January, after he’d allegedly attacked another victim in 2011.
That group announced on Jan. 25 the arrest of a 46-year-old man accused of taking part in the gang rape of a homeless, lesbian woman in 2010; and the 2011 kidnapping and rape of another Detroit woman.
That man’s DNA has been on file since 2006 in a national DNA database that’s accessible to prosecutors and law enforcement.
“How that happened or why that happened, you would have to ask the Detroit Police Department,” she told MLive.
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