article_snippet: Police in Memphis have identified 25 rape suspects after finally testing evidence kits that had been forgotten about for 40 years.
article_snippet: Some rape victims have sued Memphis, alleging that the failure to test around 12,000 kits, some dating back to the 1970s, has allowed too many rapists to escape prosecution.
article_snippet: Now the FBI has been revealed that the backlog, which is now being cleared, has identified 25 suspected rapists with 16 of 25 suspected rapists with 16 of them believed to have assaulted multiple victims believed to have assaulted multiple victims.
article_snippet: Memphis Police Lieutenant Cody Wilkerson also confirmed that 5,386 kits had now been sent for testing and that 58 cases have been sent to prosecutors for indictment.
article_snippet: However, Memphis Police Lieutenant Cody Wilkerson added dozens of investigations have been cut short because of statutes of limitations on rape charges, or the deaths of victims or suspects.
article_snippet: Meanwhile in February, officials in Houston said evidence from more than 6,600 rape kits that went untested there for years has turned up 850 hits in the FBI's nationwide database of DNA profiles.
article_snippet: And in Detroit, prosecutors discovered more than 11,000 rape kits in an abandoned police warehouse in 2009.
article_snippet: In Cleveland, prosecutors have also sent prosecutors entire 4,700-kit backlog for testing.
highlights_snippet: Memphis has started testing rape evidence kits that had been backlogged .
  
highlights_snippet: Thought around 12,000 kits had been forgotten, some dating back to 1970s .
  
highlights_snippet: Tests have identified 25 suspects, 16 of them accused of multiple assaults .
  