Thomas Maupin (Shelby County)The 2001 attack was vicious. When police arrived at the scene, they found an odd piece of evidence the rapist had forgotten: his dentures. There, like an estimated hundreds of thousands of rape kits across the country, the material sat untouched for more than a decade. Had anyone examined the dentures 16 years earlier, they would have seen the name of a murderer chiseled into the false teeth, according to the Commercial Appeal. Hard statistics on the number of untested rape kits across the United States are largely estimates and guesses.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2017 08:35 UTC