Louisville Judge Sarah Clay called the issues 'baffling' and 'shocking' and pressed for changes in LMPD's process of dealing with a private lab in getting evidence tested
The hair was sent for DNA testing but the results were never made public. No one was arrested until 2023.
Finally, about a decade after Rogers disappeared, a judge has ordered that the hairs be tested by a private laboratory, according to a two-page order Wednesday from Nelson County Judge Charles Simms III.
While results are coming much quicker, court officials say the lab is violating the constitutional rights of defendants
For sexual assault cold cases from the Louisville area, KSP and LMPD are working together to try and find answers, even if decades have passed.
Private First Class Charles W. Wells will be buried at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central in Radcliff, 79 years after he was killed in action.
William Virgil insisted he was innocent for decades of the 1987 murder of a Veterans Administration nurse in Newport.
The unidentified woman says she woke up the next morning unclothed in a hotel room “with no memory of how she arrived there,” a police affidavit states.
Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Ann Bailey Smith said she wanted to clarify "for anyone interested why this case has unfortunately been continued this long in this court."
Using advanced DNA testing, investigators now know the identity of a woman's remains that were unidentified for decades.