With great fanfare earlier this week, Houston mayor Annise Parker (at lectern above) and Harris County district attorney Devon Anderson (at far right) announced some early results stemming from the City of Houston’s processing of the 6,663 rape kits that had once languished in Houston evidence lockers, in some cases for decades.The $6 million push to test the kits began in 2013 and was completed by August of that year. Of those 6,663 kits, the new evidence has resulted in 850 hits in the FBI’s national CODIS database of DNA belonging to alleged or convicted criminals. Twenty-nine charges have been filed, 6 of them so far resulting in convictions, which have yielded prison sentences ranging from 2 to 45 years. Of the CODIS hits, some proved…The post Once a Travesty, Houston Now Texas’s Leader in Rape Kit Testing appeared first on Texas Monthly.