DeWine announces completion of testing rape kit backlog

After years of working to reduce the number of unprocessed rape kits in Ohio, Attorney General Mike DeWine says a backlog of nearly 14,000 kits is clear.In a media briefing in London, DeWine discussed a seven-year effort to process thousands of rape test kits.DeWine says the kits, some from reports taken in the 70’s, were stored in warehouses or never tested law enforcement.DeWine says the rape kits placed more than 8,000 DNA profiles in a database. The Attorney General says more than 5,00