Victim confronts former police official who destroyed evidence of her rape
‘It has been hard on me for 37 years,’ says Debby Dalhoff.
Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff introduces herself to Lester Ditto, a retired Memphis Police Department evidence and property room manager. Ditto gave a deposition at the office of Gary K. Smith, who is the attorney for the plaintiffs suing the City of Memphis over the rape kit backlog. The suit accuses the city of negligence for failing to test rape kits. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Institute for Public Service Reporting)
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Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff has been searching for decades for answers in her still-unsolved 1985 home-invasion attack by a masked intruder.
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Marc Perrusquia is the director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, where graduate students learn investigative and explanatory journalism skills working alongside professionals. He's won numerous state and national awards for government watchdog, social justice and political reporting. Follow the Institute on Facebook or Twitter @psr_memphis.
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