Is critical evidence being processed any faster?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG Investigators have spent more than a decade uncovering problems with rape kit testing in Memphis, and one year ago was no dif...

September 1, 2023
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG Investigators have spent more than a decade uncovering problems with rape kit testing in Memphis, and one year ago was no different. We found out a rape kit had sat on a shelf for months, allowing the suspect, Cleotha Abston Henderson, to reportedly abduct a Memphis mother on her morning jog. Screenshot from Eliza Fletcher's YouTube videos It happened on September 2, 2022. A massive search followed as forensic scientists 90 miles away at a state lab in Jackson, Tennessee were making a disturbing discovery.

Jessica Gertler