State officials say 283 more DNA matches have been verified during this fiscal year, allow investigators more evidence to track and solve crimes.
In October, the State Crime Lab uploaded 1,183 samples to the CODIS database, which led to 69 hits within the database from people who were arrested or convicted of offenses that require DNA collection, and matched to samples in evidence collected through forensic analysis.
Since the State Crime Lab began using the CODIS system, they have seen more than 11,772 hits in CODIS. Those hits have aided more than 9,438 law enforcement investigations.
Attorney General Josh Stein announced last year that the state had finally completely cleared the state’s backlog of rape testing kits, containing thousands of DNA samples.
The CODIS hits are also helping to drive arrests related to sexual assault cold cases.
In October, the Raleigh Police Department arrested David Lee Toney in connection with a 1998 sexual assault case, charging him with multiple felony sex offenses.
The Crime Lab coordinated testing of the kit with a vendor lab and a profile was uploaded to CODIS last year.
