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   A convicted rapist serving a prison sentence was booked into the King County   
   Jail on Friday to face another rape charge filed earlier this month after his   
   DNA was matched to a second victim through a previously untested rape kit,   
   jail and court records    
   show.   
      
   Kirose Hailu, now 27, is serving a 14-year prison term for raping an   
   intoxicated woman in an alley on Seattle’s Capitol Hill in February 2014. He   
   was charged earlier this month with second-degree rape, accused of raping a   
   second woman in downtown    
   Seattle eight months after the first rape, charging papers say.   
      
   Since 2015, police agencies across the state have been required to submit   
   evidence from every sexual-assault exam to the State Patrol Crime Lab for   
   forensic analysis after a law was passed taking discretion away from   
   individual officers and detectives to    
   decide which kits to send in for testing. At the same time, the state began a   
   concerted effort to catalog and test some 6,000 previously-untested kits that   
   had sat untouched in evidence rooms for years, with the hope of linking cases   
   and identifying    
   serial offenders.   
      
   Among the tests sent in was the one belonging to a now-34-year-old woman, who   
   was struggling with a heroin addiction when she was raped by a stranger on   
   Oct. 22, 2014, say the charges against Hailu.   
      
   Following the rape, she went to the hospital and underwent a sexual-assault   
   exam, where evidence taken from her body was packaged into what is commonly   
   referred to as a rape kit, according to charging papers.   
      
   The kits can contain a variety of evidence, including underwear and swabs of a   
   victim’s mouth, fingernails, genitals and any part of the skin where semen   
   or saliva may be present. Blood and urine are also collected and bruises and   
   other injuries are    
   photographed.   
      
   A detective entered the woman’s rape kit into evidence and tried to contact   
   her for a follow-up interview, but never heard back from her. Her case was   
   closed in November 2014.   
      
   Though Seattle police submitted the woman’s rape kit in March 2015 for   
   forensic testing, it doesn’t appear that it was analyzed at that time; court   
   documents don’t indicate why. Police again requested that her kit be tested   
   in June 2016 — but the    
   results didn’t come back until April, nearly two years later. The DNA was   
   matched to Hailu, the charges say.   
      
   In August, the case was assigned to another detective. By then, a victim   
   advocate had located the woman, who agreed to come in for an interview.   
      
   According to the charges, at the time of the rape the woman was struggling   
   with heroin addiction and after six months being sober, she went downtown   
   looking to score drugs from her usual dealer. A man approached her, claimed   
   he’d seen the dealer walk    
   down a nearby alley, and offered to walk with her, the charges say.   
      
   Once in the alley, the man pushed her down, threatened to kill her and raped   
   her, the charges say. Then he left.   
      
   Following the rape, the woman described hitting rock bottom and eventually   
   overdosing.   
      
   She entered a one-year treatment program in February 2015.   
      
   By then, Hailu and a second man, Wolid Mohammed, had been identified as   
   suspects in the February 2014 rape on Capitol Hill. They were charged with   
   second-degree rape after their DNA was matched to DNA recovered from the   
   then-21-year-old victim’s rape    
   kit, court records show.   
      
      
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