The completion of the project yielded 372 new DNA profiles.
FILE - Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks March 23, 2022, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Months into a complex trial over their role in flooding Washington with highly addictive painkillers, the nation's three largest opioid distributors have agreed to pay the state $518 million. Ferguson announced the deal Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
The completion of the project yielded 372 new DNA profiles which have been entered into the Combined DNA Index System , a nationwide database.Three unsolved Washington sex offenses are now being reviewed.Three matches are for out-of-state offenses and law enforcement in those states will be notified.
Ferguson’s office will now move on to the next phase of the project: collecting samples from offenders of all other types of violent crimes. “Out of respect for survivors and their experience, this work must be done,” Ferguson said. “This project is bringing justice to survivors of assault, rape and other violent crimes. The more cold cases that are solved, the safer our communities will be.”
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