Coming up.

Who knows what other reasons the government might have for using DNA that they obtain

supposedly for one purpose that ends up being used for some other purpose.

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

And I'm Reid Redmond.

You're listening to The Daily Crime. In San Francisco, District Attorney Chesa Boudine said he's learned the San Francisco

Police Crime Lab has been using victim DNA from rape kits to identify suspects in unrelated crimes.

We're here today to denounce the practice of using rape and sexual assault

survivors' DNA without their consent, of storing their DNA indefinitely, and using

it for purposes totally unrelated to the prosecution of their abusers.

And in Louisiana, friends and family of a 21-year-old University of New Orleans student

are trying to figure out what happened early Saturday morning leading to her death.

Her friends know she took an Uber to her apartment in the middle of the night.

I was in denial because, like, I I texted our on Friday and we made plans.

Reid, start by telling us a little more about these really troubling allegations from the San

San Francisco District Attorney. Yeah, they are troubling. San Francisco DA, Chesa Boudin, said last week that he learned DNA

collected from victims or survivors of sexual violence was being used by San Francisco

police to identify them as possible suspects in other crimes. So just to make clear,

we're not talking about DNA from the perpetrators in these cases.

We're talking about DNA from the victims that have been collected in the aftermath of them being assaulted.

And did Boudin share any examples of cases where this DNA had actually been used?

He did. He specifically cited one case where he says a woman was arrested for a property crime that

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