The Secret History of the Rape Kit

"The idea came to Marty Goddard in 1971. She was working at a [rape] crisis hotline, haunted by the stories of survivors and plagued by two principle questions: Why were so many predators getting away with crimes? And how do we stop them? In the coming years, Marty set off a massive campaign that lobbied to have sexual assault treated and investigated as the crime that it is. By creating the first rape kit, she revolutionized forensics. The kit would live on as one of the most powerful and effective tools for bringing perpetrators to justice. Marty, however, and any record of her, simply disappeared. [This book] chronicles the story of one journalist's mission to uncover the story and woman behind an invention that transformed the lives of women the country over"--