“I had heard that they had results but couldn’t read the report yet because they were busy,” Alfaro said.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio - Advances in DNA technology have allowed law enforcement agencies across the country to crack decades-old cold cases.
In 2017, Charles Cross broke into her Cleveland Heights apartment in the middle of the night and raped her. “Obviously, you know, when you have that kind of a backlog, leads go cold, or you’re kind of you know, not putting bad guys away, you know, in a very timely fashion and so, what the federal government opted to do was to actually allocate, I think there’s about $5 billion and say, we need to fix this backlog issue,” Dr. Gilson said.But based on the recent numbers, Cuyahoga County isn’t meeting that mark.
My investigation found that there was a nearly 50% increase in the time it took Cuyahoga County scientists to process rape kits from 2022 to 2021 and from 2020 to 2022 there was a nearly 120% increase.The medical examiner’s office processed 410 rape kits in 2021 and 414 in 2022.“Nobody’s going to believe us,” Alfaro said. “We’re afraid to go through the process. We’re weak, we’re ashamed. Maybe we weren’t wearing the right thing. Maybe we got drunk and smiled.
“It’s vague and that it’s not a response,” Alfaro said. “It didn’t answer anything. I mean, they of all people know that they won’t file charges unless they have that rape kit. I’d like to see cases where they filed without the results. I don’t think you’ll find those though. So that’s the first step. It’s critical.”
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