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Catherine Rentz

Catherine Rentz is a journalist and fellow with Johns Hopkins University Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund where she is developing this series into a documentary.

Cold Justice

“You Save as Long as You Have To”

Distressed by authorities’ poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. For potentially hundreds of survivors, his faith in science is paying off.

Cold Justice

“Who Is This Monster?”

She went undercover to catch a rapist. Two decades later, she finally got her chance.