This is the story of Untested, an exclusive true crime subscriber podcast series from Witness in USA TODAY. The podcast is available to subscribers of Witness and also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Kenneth Eugene Smith is fighting the state attorney general’s request to be killed by nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama wants to be the first state to use the method.

French legislative elections concluded without a hint of financial turbulence across the eurozone, and that means the European Central Bank’s untested counter-contagion tool will remain untested.

After a brief burst of increased testing, police and advocates say several factors are driving the rising number of untested kits containing evidence from sexual assault survivors.

Some of the untested kits in the state dated back to the 1980s, according to the Attorney General’s office. "Each of those kits was a survivor whose voice was never heard, that never had a ...

Sacramento Police has 340 untested rape kits, and has not told the Attorney General’s Office in violation of state law, a new city audit found.

In 2017, Wisconsin had over 6,000 untested rape kits. In 2022, a state-wide tracking database was launched for survivors to track the status of their kits, but it’s a small step in addressing ...

In a letter to Nebraska lawmakers, Omaha's Police Chief Todd Schmaderer reports a 45% drop in the number of untested sexual assault kits. That's compared to last year.

At one point, there were more than 16,000 kits untested in police custody, according to the Attorney General. Data from dozens of states shows North Carolina shelves had the most kits untested.

Utah officials said Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out ...