While investigating a cold case homicide from New Bedford, Tom learned that several thousand rape kits from throughout Massachusetts were never fully tested by the state lab.  Tom strongly believed that victims of sex assault deserved answers and deserved justice. Thanks to Tom securing a federal grant, devoting an immense amount of office resources to locally solve a growing failure at the state level, Bristol County is the only county in the state to have its share of the untested rape kits tested by a private lab.  Every previously untested rape kit in Bristol County will be fully tested by the end of this year.  No other county in the state can say that.  Tom’s initiative has already resulted in criminal charges being brought in two separate brutal cold case rapes from more than a decade ago, and more rape cases will undoubtedly be solved in the very near future