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Cops said it was meth – it was cotton candy: Inside the nationwide crime lab backlog

A growing backlog at crime labs nationwide is leaving victims waiting for justice. A recent government report found the backlog for DNA analysis increased almost 85 percent from 2011 through 2017. Mireya Villarreal reports.
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