The Application of Touch DNA to Cold Case Investigations

The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Virtual Academy offers online trainings and resources to help improve jurisdictions’ capacity to investigate, prosecute, inventory, and track sexual assault kits and provide trauma-informed victim services and advocacy.

This training provides law enforcement investigators and other criminal justice partners involved in a cold case multidisciplinary team with a basic understanding of how touch DNA analysis can aid in attaining cold case resolutions. This training aims to equip cold case investigators with a foundational knowledge of touch DNA that will aid making informed decisions regarding evidence selection and submission for touch DNA analysis.