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  America tested 100,000 forgotten rape kits. But justice remains elusive. 11  22 On summer nights a year apart, two women left bars in downtown Austin, Texas. Before they could get home safely, both were raped.  One knew her rapist. He was an acquaintance, she said, who saw she was intoxicated and offered her a ride on the handlebars of his bicycle before sexually assaulting her as she drifted in and out of consciousness.  The other did not. She told police she was attacked by strangers who pinned down her arms and legs while one of them raped her.   Neither investigation led to an arrest.   Years later in 2021, Austin police received a significant new lead: DNA found on one woman’s jeans matched DNA from a swab of the other’s neck. It suggested that the two women had been attacked by the same man