Kentucky AG: Crime lab DNA delay 'unacceptable'

Attorney General Andy Beshear sent $4.5 million to the Kentucky State Police Forensic Crime Laboratory in 2016, hoping the cash infusion would help reduce the eight-month gap between DNA kits connected to sexual assault cases being submitted by investigators and then being tested. By October 2018, however, a WCPO I-Team investigation revealed the shortest average timeframe for processing each of its 2,260 pending DNA criminal cases, which include murder and assaults,  still clocked in at six to eight months. The longest, including some rape kits, were projected by the lab's director to spend up to 15 months in limbo.