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Enter Martha “Marty” Goddard, a 30-something visionary disturbed that sexual predators were escaping justice for their crimes. A divorcée with close cropped blonde hair and owlish glasses who used the moniker Marty because she liked hiding behind a man’s name, Goddard would go on to create what is known today as the first standardized rape kit.
Goddard had come to the realization that “incontrovertible scientific proof” from a crime lab was required to bring sexual perpetrators to justice. Police departments had been disposing of evidence when it suited them — even an assault, Goddard discovered, by a Catholic bishop on a child.She soon learned that hospitals lacked the forensic tools to prove rape, nor did doctors and nurses know how to collect evidence, and that her idea for a rape kit was a necessary tool.
If she had gotten the credit, the author explained, it would reveal the long-time failings of the police department. After Vitullo’s death, Goddard appealed to an unexpected benefactor, the creator of the nude centerfold, Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, and his progressive philanthropic Playboy Foundation. Hefner provided $10,000 in seed money to initiate a rape-kit system.Meanwhile, Goddard was hired as an executive with the Wieboldt Foundation that funded progressive causes. She was able to meet with victims’ groups and hospital executives to propose using rape kits to study DNA forensics.
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