{"id":1695,"date":"2011-10-13T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:50:29","slug":"new-orleans-rape-kit-backlog-will-be-tested-by-start-of-2012-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/news\/new-orleans-rape-kit-backlog-will-be-tested-by-start-of-2012-police-say","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans rape-kit backlog will be tested by start of 2012, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011,\u00a0 8:00 AM<\/h5>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.nola.com\/user\/lmaggi\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nola.com\/\/avatars\/23\/07.png\" alt=\"Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a> By <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.nola.com\/user\/lmaggi\/index.html\"> Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune<\/a>The Times-Picayune<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>New Orleans police officials said Wednesday more than 800 untested rape kits will be tested by the beginning of next year, clearing up a backlog that includes physical evidence from sexual assaults dating to the late 1980s. Police Commander Paul Noel, who heads the <a href=\"https:\/\/topics.nola.com\/tag\/nopd\/\">NOPD&#8217;s<\/a> criminal investigations division, said the testing will be done by Marshall University in West Virginia, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Police&#8217;s crime laboratory. Testing of all kits collected by the NOPD since January is done by a DNA specialist hired by the NOPD who works out of the state lab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/crime\/index.ssf\/2011\/10\/police_say_backlog_of_rape_kit.html\">View Link to Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011,\u00a0 8:00 AM By Laura Maggi, The Times-PicayuneThe Times-Picayune New Orleans police officials said Wednesday more than 800 untested rape kits will be tested by the beginning of next year, clearing up a backlog that includes physical evidence from sexual assaults dating to the late 1980s. Police Commander Paul Noel, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,43,101],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-backlog","tag-dna","tag-mufsc"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/forensics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}