The New York Police Department and state officials are in a stalemate over the requirements to search the state’s DNA database for relatives of suspects as investigators seek to solve eight cases, including a decadesold one involving a serial rapist. The NYPD’s Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea is frustrated. It has been nine months since the cases were submitted to the state and he still doesn’t have results. A ninth case was rejected for having insufficient DNA, he said.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 23, 2018 01:39 UTC