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West Virginia’s DNA database helps solve cold case – WVPubcast.org

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October 28, 2010 · Huntington officials announced last week that they are prosecuting a man already in prison for a Cabell County rape that occurred over 20 years ago.

Donald Good has been in jail for 14 years after pleading guilty to a murder that happened in 1992. He is now charged with the 1987 rape of a woman at the Huntington Mall. Good’s DNA was tested and found to match evidence collected at the crime scene.

Through a West Virginia law passed in 1995, convicted violent felons are required to give DNA samples. Backlogged DNA was recently sent to the Marshall University Forensic Science Center where a DNA profile was created. Terry Fenger is the director of the center… read more on WVPubcast.org.

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