Stacked in police warehouses across the Valley, there are thousands of rape cases with DNA samples that have never been tested, an ABC15 Investigation found.

A California man was sent to prison for 15 years Friday for raping an elementary school teacher in her classroom when he was passing through Mesa in 1992.

Recently, you ran a front page story about: “Police agencies don’t test thousands of rape kits” (Nov. 11, 2012).

The word rape strikes terror in the hearts of women who are most often the targets of a rapist. Rape, often called sexual assault, is one of the vilest crimes that can be committed. It’s a crime I found in my career that can be uglier than a murder and often more difficult to investigate and solve.

Bill Richardson

A forensic specialist testified Wednesday that DNA from serial predator suspect Mark Goudeau matched biological samples from a 2005 sexual assault that was part of the “Baseline Killer” investigation.

Employees at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn hospital told investigators they believed that "something bad" happened as early as November to a 23-year-old incapacitated heart patient.

“There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity!”

It was a standard-sized piece of paper with a cryptic handwritten message: “He who asks about the $5 bill is a homicidal maniac, arsonist, thief, destroyer of property, drug using god among mortals.” Police found the inscription lying on the kitchen counter in the apartment of the men accused in the Serial Shooter case, court records show.

It was a standard-sized piece of paper with a cryptic handwritten message: “He who asks about the $5 bill is a homicidal maniac, arsonist, thief, destroyer of property, drug using god among mortals.” Police found the inscription lying on the kitchen counter in the apartment of the men accused in the Serial Shooter case, court records show.