Advances in DNA and genetic genealogy helped police identify a suspect in the 1980 killings of Lynn Vest and her young son, ...

A genetic genealogy expert says one DNA entry narrowed the investigation into David Zimbrick's alleged connections to two ...

Familial DNA searches help authorities "identify potential relatives of the alleged perpetrator" in DNA databases.

Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said microbial DNA analysis might be useful in getting a more precise time of death for ...

NORTHEAST OHIO — The Athens serial rapist terrorized women for 10 years in this college town in southeast Ohio. He was finally caught and sent to prison last year, thanks to powerful forensic tools ...

Investigators searching the Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility where Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead Thursday, Dec. 18, have recovered two 9mm pistols, more ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — Nearly three decades after her death, a murder victim whose partially decomposed body turned up in a brushy ravine in eastern San Diego County has been identified. DNA testing has ...

PARIS -- In what could be the first major break in the investigation of the $102 million jewel heist at the Louvre Museum, police have found traces of DNA on items the thieves left behind in their ...