Previously: Iowa rolls out new system to track sexual assault test kits, nears end of backlog The project, which launched in 2015, has finally worked through the state's evidence kit backlog, Attorney General Tom Miller announced Tuesday. The two victims, who were 14 and 15 at the time, told police in 2003 that a man in Omaha offered them a ride across town, but instead drove them into Iowa, threatened them with a knife, sexually assaulted them and burned them both with a cigarette.īrandon wasn't identified and charged until last year, when an evidence kit collected after the attack was tested as part of the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative by the Iowa Attorney General's Office. Myron Brandon of Pacific Junction was convicted in October to kidnapping and transporting a minor with sexual intent and is scheduled for sentencing in March. In the end, the evidence that broke open a 17-year-old sexual assault and kidnapping case had been in police possession all along.
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