Cold-Case Rape-Beating of Blind Woman Solved with DNA from Coke Can

Cold cases are only ever bittersweet at best.  The reporting on this is semi-brain-melting as usual.  The reporter says, "He left her body..." but the woman apparently survived.  He's not being charged with murder.  The cop says, "She was just minding her own business..." as if somehow other people who get sexually assaulted deserved it.  This is where our rape-kit backlog comes from.  Sometimes it's our own fault, according to the police.  Even getting down to the actual facts is just infuriating. 

In this case the suspect, Jorge Post, was a 17-year-old who lived with his mother a block away from the scene of the crime.  He was questioned by police at the time.   It seems to me that maybe some more investigative elbow grease at the time, detectives working a little harder on it, leaning on that teenager with the anger problems, who lives a block away maybe could have broken the case ten years ago, but what do I know.

Even when it is a blind woman who was minding her own business, it takes them 8 years to test the DNA.  They turned the DNA sample over to the FBI in 2022.  Genetic genealogy traced the lead down to Post in a matter of months.  Then they were able to get a DNA sample from a coke can by following Post around.

My issue is the giant gap between the woman being assaulted so severely that all of the bones in her face were fractured back in 2014, and the DNA being turned over to the FBI in 2022.  Right?  Hello, Mesquite Police Department?  WTF?  What has this joker done in the interim, and to whom?

I say this based on my personal experience with the Fayetteville, NC Police Department keeping every one of their fucks intact when I was cornered in my apartment's gym by the North Ramsey Street Rapist, Darold Bowden.  The local PD made zero effort to follow up on that after leaving me alone with him for half an hour.  And I was working as a paramedic in their county at the time.  Then they waited 10 years to catch him through genetic genealogy.  These are the fucks they give about safeguarding women from sexual violence.  It's a ten-year turnaround on average.