{"id":1035,"date":"2011-03-27T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:03:11","slug":"rhode-island-crime-lab-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Crime Lab Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two days after Thanksgiving, a grandmother was brutally murdered inside the Pawtucket home where she\u2019d lived for most of her life. The next month, a Providence man was found in a puddle of blood inside his house, where the bars on the windows and spike-topped fence had failed to keep his killer away.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, detectives combed the crime scenes, searching for clues in blood stains, hairs, skin cells and other substances the killers may have left behind.<\/p>\n<p>But the forensics lab at the Health Department is so backlogged that it takes from six months to more than a year to analyze DNA in most violent-crime cases. Lesser crimes can take longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is beginning of a very well researched article written by Amanda Milkovits for The Providence Journal.  The full article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/dna_lab_03-27-11_PPMPJ78_v98.16ad159.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Richards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Richards.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Richards\" width=\"388\" height=\"258\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1036\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two days after Thanksgiving, a grandmother was brutally murdered inside the Pawtucket home where she\u2019d lived for most of her life. The next month, a Providence man was found in a puddle of blood inside his house, where the bars on the windows and spike-topped fence had failed to keep his killer away. In both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-gH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}