First of two parts: In the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation, testing the backlog of rape kits may not be enough. Many were from cases where the identity of the suspect was already known, or were opened only to find no usable DNA.
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LISTEN: Alaska’s first Zoom trial of pandemic ends in guilty verdicts over 2001 rape
In Alaska’s first felony jury trial of the pandemic, a Kenai jury found Carmen Perzechino guilty of kidnapping and rape 19 years after he attacked a woman in his van along the Sterling Highway.