This, to me, is the worst part of the article. About a multiple rapist who was identified recently through this program. Not because of his DNA, because of a fingerprint. You know, the thing we’ve been able to connect criminals to for over a century.
The technology to find Shipe had been around for decades; the difference that led to him to be found now was staffing the effort with a cold-case detective, paid for with funds from the reform effort.
All they had to do was hire one detective and a violent serial rapist was caught nearly 50 years after he may have started.