the victim 's rape kit languished untested for 10 years .
darin bolar , pictured here in an october 2009 department of corrections photo , is accused of a raping a 14 - year - old girl in 2007 .
the victim 's rape kit , stored among more than 1,000 in a well - known backlog of untested sets of evidence , was finally examined and yielded a dna match for darin bolar in december 2017 .
cases had to meet certain criteria to be sent to the state crime lab for testing , but o'toole 's announcement prompted seattle police to send each kit along for examination .
photo : department of corrections photo : department of corrections image 1 of 34 caption close after 10 - year rape kit delay , man charged with raping , kidnapping teen in seattle 1 34 back to gallery eleven years after the attack , a 52 - year - old man was arrested for the kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14 - year - old girl he allegedly abducted in the beacon hill neighborhood of south seattle .
seattle - eleven years after the attack , a 52 - year - old man is arrested for the kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14 - year - old girl he allegedly abducted in the beacon hill neighborhood of south seattle .
the 14 - year - old girl in the seattle pd to test all rape for the october 2007 attack .
at the time , of the 1,641 rape kits administered darin bolar is seen in an october 2009 department of corrections photo .
then - seattle police chief kathleen o'toole announced an initiative in 2015 to test each of the backlogged kits .