Sexual assault survivor: I fear we again are letting an institution of public trust, like we did with the Catholic Church, stand in the way of justice.
A man convicted of killing his infant son was later exonerated. Now he is essentially being tried again as he seeks compensation for a wrongful conviction.
Samples saved by a Baltimore doctor have been used to solve more than 80 cold cases, but evidence from 1,800 cases remains untested. The state's new attorney general and some lawmakers are acting to protect this evidence trove from destruction.
Baltimore County police have started testing a backlog of evidence from rape cold cases. Ten of 49 cases processed so far have yielded actionable DNA profiles. In at least one case, the answers came too late.
When reporter Catherine Rentz found a 1983 article about a student who was raped and murdered, she immediately recognized the similarities to crimes committed by a serial perpetrator she’d been investigating.