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The Stories And Ethics Of DNA Testing

By & Coy Dugger • Jul 3, 2018

For some, genetic testing can provide answers to lifelong questions. But DNA also raises unique ethical conundrums when it comes to privacy and discrimination. On this episode, we dive into the personal stories and moral curiosities about DNA.

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Audit: Nearly 5,000 Rape Kits Untested In Missouri; Kansas City's Turnaround Longest

By • May 24, 2018
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Missouri has at least 4,889 untested rape kits that have yet to be submitted for DNA testing, according to a state audit. 

In 2017, crime labs around the state tested 869 rape kits, which preserve DNA evidence, the audit said. And the Kansas City Police Department had the longest turnaround among more than 250 law enforcement departments.

Father Charged With Murder Of Beloved Kansas City Honor Student Daizsa Bausby

By • Sep 21, 2016
Courtesy of Wasiba Hamad

Exactly six months after 18-year-old Southwest High School honor student Daizsa Bausby was found dead in a motel room, Jackson County prosecutors have charged her father with her murder.

After investigators received positive DNA results, 40-year-old Jerry K. Bausby was charged late Tuesday with first-degree murder, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse.

On the morning of March 21, Daizsa was found by a cleaning crew face up in the bed of a room at the 4 Acres Motel in South Kansas City. The following day, her mother, Laetta Walker-Bausby filed a missing persons report. 

The Flaw That Left A KCK Rape Case Unsolved For Years

By & • May 11, 2016

She survived a person's worst nightmare. KCUR's investigative team brings us the story of how one woman’s vicious attacker was finally found after 17 years, and of the mistake that left the case open for so long.

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Police Had DNA Evidence To Put A Kansas City Woman’s Rapist In Jail — So Why Didn’t They?

By • May 11, 2016
Illustration by Jacob Joslyn

Juliette was startled awake on August 17, 1999, and faced a woman’s worst nightmare: a man was in her bedroom, brandishing a large knife.

“He said, ‘Be quiet and I won’t hurt you,’” says Juliette (a pseudonym). “I thought that meant he was going to rape me and leave.”

A Look Inside The Kansas City Police Crime Lab

By & • Mar 21, 2016

Forget what you've seen on CSI or Law and Order.  Take a look at what really goes into solving crimes through DNA analysis and how the process differs from what we see on TV.

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Evidence, Collected Oddly, Allows Charge In Old Crime

By Dan Verbeck • Mar 16, 2012

Painstaking and coordinated detective work, between Kansas City and Colorado, have resulted in a charge in the attack on a Kansas City woman 14 and a half years ago.

Mechanics Of Serial Crime Bust Surface Decades After

By Dan Verbeck • May 28, 2010

Kansas City, Mo. – Modern DNA technology was unheard of in the 1970s as police in two Missouri cities struggled to find and stop a man who was attacking women. KCUR news has learned it was a mainstay of crime detection that led investigators in one town to help counterparts in the other. The common denominator is the man now charged in 1980s attacks around Kansas City's Waldo District.

Bernard Jackson stands charged in Kansas City with four rapes committed in 1983 and 1984. They are accusations, not convictions.