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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two women were raped by the same man 25 years apart. Shana Asby in 2016. Sabrina Adams in 1991.

“He grabbed me by the neck, he took me back to the couch and he was like I'm going to kill you,” said Shana Asby.

“It hurt and it still hurts,” said Sabrina Adams.

When police arrested Charles Harris in 2016 they used DNA technology to tie the two cases together. It would have never happened if Adams hadn't completed a sexual assault or rape kit decades ago.​

“They plucked hair from the head, from the pubic area,” Adams said.

For years, Adams' kit wasn't processed for DNA. It was one of thousands in Charlotte left untested.

DNA technology wasn't available at the time but the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department, like many police departments back then, often didn't completely test kits unless they went to prosecution. There were also other factors.

“There are times when I think police officers didn't believe a victim, or just didn't take the time to push further to work the case because they weren't properly trained,” said CMPD Lt. Melanie Peacock.

In late 2015, the department changed its policy and began testing all kits. It's already produced results.

“It's really a gold mine of information,” Peacock said.

Peacock heads up the Sexual Assault Unit at CMPD. The department coordinates the testing and the Cold Case Unit follows up on cases if the kits make a positive hit.

So far, using grant money, the department has sent out more than a 1,000 kits to private labs and its tested more than 400 in house. Of those, more than 250 have produced hits and CMPD's been able to make nine arrests in cases dating as far back as 1984.

Peacock expects even more hits with the next round of tested kits.

“I really feel strongly that we are going to get hits on a lot of these offenders who might have been under the radar for all of these years and thought they got away with it,” Peacock said.

Charles Harris is no longer getting away with it. DNA technology confirmed his involvement in eight cases. Four of the women, including Adams, testified against him in March.

“I don't know how far these kits go but I don't care if it's 50 years, there's that closure to what happened to you,” Adams said.

Closure came in the form of jail time. A judge sentenced harris to 12 consecutive sentences of life in prison.

As for the thousands of other victims, they still await closure. CMPD is one of the few departments in the state testing rape kits. Testing is not mandated in North Carolina, according to CMPD.

The department is sending out 600 partially tested kits and said it has around 200 left which are primarily recent cases.

The biggest obstacle in testing the kits, according to CMPD, are resources and money.

This is the second part of two-part special report. Click here for the first part.