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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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Buried in an evidence room, a DNA swab held the key to catching a serial sex offender. But no one tested it for years. Detective Annie Harrison finally put the pieces together in two states 800 miles apart. This is the story of Untested, an exclusive true crime podcast from USA TODAY and Witness. The show's host, USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Gina Barton, joins The Excerpt to discuss the reporting that went into the series and why she thinks listeners should tune in.
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0:00.0 | What if we could block a protein to stop runaway cell division? |
0:04.1 | Dana Farber laid the foundation for CDK-46 inhibitors, |
0:07.9 | drugs that are increasing the survival rate for many advanced breast cancers. |
0:12.1 | Learn more at Danafarber.org slash everywhere. |
0:18.8 | Hello, and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, and this is a special episode of the excerpt. |
0:32.1 | A quick warning, this episode includes descriptions of sexual assault and suicide, so it may not be suitable for all listeners. |
0:40.4 | Annie Harrison had just gotten back from a family vacation to Mexico with her husband, her aunt, and uncle, and her two daughters. |
0:48.4 | She was cleaning out her inbox when she saw an email that would change the lives of two women who reported being raped. |
0:55.6 | Annie is a detective in Michigan, and the email was from the state crime lab, |
1:00.4 | detailing a DNA match that would lead her on a quest to hunt down and bring a serial sex offender to justice. |
1:07.4 | This is the story of Untested, an exclusive true crime subscriber podcast series from |
1:13.5 | Witness in USA Today. The podcast is available to subscribers of witness and also on Apple |
1:19.3 | podcasts and Spotify. Untested's host, investigative reporter Gina Barton, joins me now to talk |
1:26.1 | about her reporting and why she thinks listeners |
1:28.7 | should tune in. Thanks for joining me, Gina. Thanks for having me. This is obviously a huge project, |
1:35.4 | one that you've dedicated many, many months to now. What made you want to create untested, Gina? |
1:42.0 | The idea started with our project into the problem of untested rape |
1:46.6 | kids. And we looked into a federal grant program that was supposed to help solve that problem. |
1:53.1 | During our reporting, I came across a court file talking about a man named Marshawn Curtis. |
2:00.1 | And he was just going to be coming up for trial. |
2:02.9 | So I went to the trial, and that is where I met Detective Annie Harrison |
2:07.2 | and started to hear and learn about everything that she went through for almost a year |
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