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Last updated on Thursday, April 19, 2018
(INDIANAPOLIS) - Indiana’s new DNA law has linked 72 suspects to unsolved crimes.
Starting this year, the law requires jails to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, instead of waiting till they're convicted.
Two weeks after the first sample, they got a match to an unsolved rape from two years ago.
It's not clear what crimes are involved in the other 71 cases.
State Police spokesman Dave Bursten says the matches to a national D-N-A database are spread across 44 of Indiana's 92 counties.
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