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For more than three years, Missouri officials have been finding, tracking and testing the state's backlog of thousands of unaccounted-for kits, which are used to identify rapists and people who commit sexual assault. The Attorney General's office announced Monday that the state has sent 3,298 kits to labs for DNA testing.

Rape survivors in Missouri awaiting years-old results may wait longer if they did not file a police report.

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Roughly 100 of Missouri鈥檚 7,019 untested rape kits have been sent out of state to a private forensic lab for testing.The state completed a full inventory鈥�

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Missouri has more than 10,000 untested rape kits sitting on shelves in police departments and hospitals 鈥� some have been there for decades 鈥� but the state鈥�

A new Missouri law orders the state to create guidelines for testing, processing and storing rape kits, which collect DNA evidence from victims of sexual鈥�

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