DNA testing raises new, daunting possibilities for victims of unsolved rapes.
Now, using DNA, the police have tied him to two unsolved rapes that took place in 2000.
The game generated some controversy for its reference to a fictional, unsolved rape.
His criminal record included a sexual assault, and after more questioning he admitted to a recent unsolved rape.
It was going to dead end, and he'd have another unsolved rape on his hands.
The next step is for local authorities to come forward with unsolved rapes that follow Mr. Worrell's modus operandi: he crept in through open doors and windows at night, using a knife.
The police are investigating unsolved rapes of several women dating to 2000.
I would therefore recommend a thorough trawl of both solved and unsolved rapes and serious sexual assaults over the last five years in an attempt to establish crime linkage and develop a suspect.
The Brooklyn district attorney charged a parolee, Alex Virella, yesterday with what had been an unsolved rape from 1995.
If DNA can prove, within 99.9 percent certainty, that a defendant was the perpetrator of an unsolved rape, why not send him to prison?