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A suspected serial rapist pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl and seven other people during an 11 year span.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis police say it will remain busy over the next few years, as it continues to sort through evidence from the rape kit backlog. We found this out on Tuesday, when the council received an update for the first time is more than a year. “Today we have two codis matches that […]

A Memphis man was arrested and charged with aggravated rape 16 years after the offense was first reported.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Despite promises, it’s been more than a year since Memphis City Council received an update on the rape kit backlog, like what evidence has been processed and who’s been caught. For the past several years, updates on evidence backlog were provided to the city council every month, but they suddenly stopped in […]

Authorities in Pennsylvania on Tuesday filed an arrest warrant in a 2013 campus attack at Gettysburg College, nearly eight years after the woman went to police and a year after she received an online message that said, “So I raped you.”

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Twenty years later, two families faced the man who killed their loved ones for the first time Thursday morning. Thomas Maupin, 71, admitted to killing Patricia Thornton and Nancy Alvis. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. “We had to make a reduction because a number of key witnesses […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The rape kit lawsuit against the city is now moving forward. On Wednesday, a judge heard arguments on whether the case should be certified as a class action suit. The hearing lasted about two hours on a zoom call that we weren’t allowed to record. Both sides presented their arguments on why […]

A bill that would allow sexual assault survivors to closely track their rape kits could soon be debated on the House and Senate floor.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A Lafayette teen is putting a horrific crime behind him while recovering from the near-death experience. On June 20, 2020, Holden White was tortured until his attacker thought he was dead. Now White, an openly gay young man, is pressing for hate crime charges. It’s been seven months since a meetup […]

They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations. On one […]