Nine people are facing charges so far, following the testing of thousands of sexual assault kits.
The state justice department worked to clear the backlog, and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul expects that number to increase.
Prosecutors are deciding whether to file charges in 35 cases.
There were nearly 4,500 kits that needed to be tested. About 1,600 of them had DNA results that called for investigators to look into those cases.
