CBI is hoping to send a portion of the kits to out-of-state private labs for testing, as they look to alleviate a backlog of ...

Colorado Bureau of Investigation faces a backlog of 1,400 sexual assault cases due to a perfect storm of understaffing, a ...

Some lawmakers had demanded the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show a clear plan to resolve the 500-day wait for test ...

Colorado Bureau of Investigation may continue testing DNA kits past June 30. Senate Bill 105 aims to address a backlog of DNA ...

The CBI now takes 517 days to test sexual assault cases, far and beyond the state’s goal of 90 days. The state agency has hired an outside consulting firm to review its forensics practices in an ...

Jefferson County Court Judge Graham Peper reduced former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods’ $50 ...

CBI launched an investigation in September 2023 and found that Woods manipulated data in the DNA testing process and posted incomplete test results in some cases. Woods had been with the CBI for ...

leading to incomplete test results in certain cases. As of August, officials identified 809 cases dating back to 2014 that Woods had a hand in. CBI opened an Internal Affairs Investigation in the ...

CBI said Wisconsin-based Forward Resolutions ... justice records and tampered with DNA testing by altering or omitting test results from the case file. The internal affairs investigation did ...

I have been waiting for DNA test results for almost a year ... on the amount of scientists that we’ve had for years.” The CBI now has 16 DNA scientists on staff and another 15 in training.