article_snippet: evidence kits that had been forgotten about for 40 years contain samples of semen, saliva and blood taken from a victim, with the DNA then uploaded to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System to check for a match.
article_snippet: a woman then consented to a rape kit test but the evidence wasn't tested by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation until July 2012.
article_snippet: the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was then revealed that the DNA then matched that of a woman earlier this year.
article_snippet: Instead former U.S. Attorney Veronica Coleman-Davis attributed the problem to 'a general and collective failure to understand the importance of DNA testing as was reflected in common practices in place locally and nationwide.'
article_snippet: the kits contain samples of semen, saliva and blood taken from a victim, with the DNA then uploaded to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System to check for a match .