Audit points to causes of New Mexico’s rape kit backlog

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A lack of human and financial resources is partly to blame for New Mexico’s backlog of more than 5,400 untested evidence kits from rapes and other sexual assaults.
State Auditor Tim Keller has released the findings from a special review aimed at identifying practices that led to the untested kits languishing in evidence vaults around the state.
Albuquerque’s crime lab still carries the bulk of the backlog, with about 73 percent of the untested kits.
Som