and four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day couldn t believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system on the semen sample on bonnie craig. reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. it is a national database of profiles, provided by federal, state and local crime labs. and codis got a hit. everybody was happy. reporter: the match was in new hampshire of all places. a man in prison for armed robbery back in early 2003. but nobody got around to entering his dna into codis until late 2006.
this has been a long standing problem for law enforcement and there are hundreds and holdups of phones in police and fbi crime labs that cannot be open. now i m told that the fbi is somewhat optimistic they will be able to get into this phone. we will have to wait and see how that plays out. you might remember in the terror attack in new york, safullo saipov, they did get into his phone very quickly and got an amazing amount of information out of that. there is a reason for that. he failed to lock it, authorities tell us. i want to go back on a couple other points you have just been talking about. number one, yes it s true the police report says the information about kelley getting away from this mental facility was entered into ncic, the national crime information center. that s simply a missing persons report and that s not a qualifying factor for preventing buying a again. secondly, going awol would not be a disqualifier.
also, dna profile came back with ronald johnson s dna on the pistol, and the crime labs did testing and they were able to link the weapon to a prior shooting that took place september 25th, 2013 on 5637 south green in chicago, and in that shooting no perp had been arrested or weapon recovered in 2013. thanks, lynn. and based on the the totality of the evidence in this case, and with the very, very careful analysis of the laws of the state of illinois, it is our determination that no criminal charges are will be filed against officer hernandez in connection with the shooting death of ronald johnson. the totality of the evidence establishes the following, at the time of the shooting, mr. johnson was armed with with a handgun. mr. johnson had run from an area
away or local, that was really significant, wasn t it? it was. and you know, crime labs have a lot of capabilities, and examination of pollen is by microscopy that by looking at different pollen, you can localize the geography, and in this particular case, clearly it was from the boston area, but there was also soot that was found which indicated that it was more of an urban area in the b boston area. yes, exactly on the clothing. and larry, while we are at the microscopic telltale signs on the child s body or on her clothing, it is possible with all of your experience that there is something else that the investigators are keeping close to the vest so that if they do end up in a courtroom at some
the white house and manhattan s district attorney s now pledging a combined $79 million to end a shocking rape kit back log across the country. this comes amid reports that tens of thousands of dna samples taken after sexual assaults have gone untested. bripan llenas is sitting by wit more on this troubling story. a recent usa today investigation found at least 70,000 rape test kits collected by more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies were not sent to crime labs around the country for testing. it s estimated hundreds of thousands of kids are sitting on the shelves in police departments nationwide for up to a decade because time and money creating a major back log. rape kits hope dna and biological evidence collected from a sexual assault victim s body. all critically important in prosecuting their rapists.