A massive breakdown in the system': Tennessee has failed to collect DNA from 76K violent offenders
KNOXVILLE — After the brutal murder of their 21-year-old daughter in 2004—and in the years that followed without an arrest—Joan and Mike Berry channelled their grief, and their rage, into a fight for stronger victim protections.
Johnia Berry was stabbed more than 20 times by a home intruder six weeks after she moved to west Knoxville to attend graduate school at the University of Tennessee.
She was found in the hallway of her apartment building after pounding on neighbors’ doors for help in the middle of the night. No one answered.
The only evidence investigators recovered was a partial fingerprint and drops of a stranger’s blood on the knife wielded by her killer.
Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/04/15/a-massive-breakdown-in-the-system-tennessee-has-failed-to-collect-dna-from-76000-violent-offenders/
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Those poor grieving parents. 
Just got an email from one of my future neighbors (we're moving back) complaining about the state's lack of mandates & folks ignoring all precautions re: covid. But "freedom."
