We've spent a fair amount of time chronicling the battle of badass Kym Worthy, the Wayne County, Michigan prosecutor who stumbled on over 11,000 untested rape kits at a former police storage warehouse back in 2009, the lack of funding Worthy was faced with even after arranging for a federal grant of one million…
Mariska Hargitay's amazing Joyful Heart Foundation needs your help to win $500,000 to help put an end to the overwhelmingly large backlog of untested rape kits. I strongly encourage you to go to the website and cast your vote asap.
In a Huffington Post editorial Law & Order: SVU, executive producer Neal Baer and Mariska Hargitay announced that on Wednesday SVU will air an episode about the untested rape kit backlog in conjunction with the launch of the website endthebacklog.org.
DNA evidence has led police to arrest a man - suspected of raping and killing at least 30 women in L.A. since the 1950s - who may be one of the nation's worst serial killers.
