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The City of San Francisco is facing a lawsuit from a sexual assault victim whose rape kit DNA was used to charge her with a property theft, according to the victim’s attorney.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A recently tested rape kit from a case back on September 21 of 2021 has been connected to the man charged with kidnapping and killing Eliza Fletcher. The DNA match came back the same day Fletcher’s body was found behind an abandoned house in South Memphis. According to Memphis police, a sexual […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local North Carolina grand jury on Monday advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against state Attorney General Josh Stein and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 election opponent. After hearing from a State Bureau of Investigation agent, the Wake County grand jury asked […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The campaign committee for North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, facing trouble for a TV ad aired against a rival in 2020, plans to ask a federal court to block enforcement of a state law making it illegal to knowingly circulate false reports to damage a candidate’s election chances. The notice […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a sweeping inquiry into the New York Police Department’s famed sex crimes investigators following years of complaints about the way they treat crime victims. The civil rights investigation, announced Thursday and spurred by a letter last year from appalled victims, will examine whether the NYPD’s […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis grandmother told police her 16-year-old grandaughter was raped by a man she met on Facebook. The grandmother contacted police after she said a man, now identified as Phillip Glasper, contacted her granddaughter on Facebook, telling her he would take her shopping last week. Instead, the 16-year-old girl said he took […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis police officer was indicted on federal charges after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman over 20 years ago while he was on duty. Bridges Randle, 47, responded to a vandalism call at the victim’s residence in June 2000. Randle sexually assaulted the victim while he was at her […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility of parole for a 2006 rape case, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced Thursday. Joshua Beadle, 31, was convicted of breaking into an apartment complex on Jefferson Place near North Danny Thomas where he raped a 22-year-old woman, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A jury reportedly took less than an hour to convict a man of a 2019 rape, according to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. The DA’s office says Frederick Leon Peat, 43, was convicted Wednesday of aggravated rape after a three-day trial. Peat is accused of attacking a 50-year-old woman at an […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man was convicted Wednesday in a 2019 rape in South Memphis after a DNA database linked him to the crime, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said. Frederick Leon Peat, 43, was convicted of aggravated rape following a three-day trial. He will be sentenced on Nov. 15 by Judge Carolyn […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new law in Tennessee will help sexual assault victims keep track of their evidence, thanks in part to help from a city thousands of miles away. The law requires the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to set up a tracking system for sexual assault evidence kits. Donna Nelson, the crime laboratory regional […]