The criminal investigation tool is said to offer the potential to predict an individual's physical appearance based solely on ...

More than two decades of heartache and unanswered questions are slowly surfacing for the Rutledge family, as they finally receive crucial updates about the disappearance of their son, Marcus.

A bill is moving through the Wyoming Legislature to give access to post-conviction DNA testing to more Wyoming felons. The ...

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

Kentucky law enforcement agencies are increasingly using forensic genealogy to identify crime victims and suspects.

Kentucky officials have several identified homicide victims and suspects by matching their DNA to potential relatives.

"Who was Judy Doe?" That question had haunted sheriff's investigators in Lake County, Fla., since a body was discovered there in 1984. The answer, officials announced on Jan. 29, was Rebecca Sue Hill, ...

DNA technology has led to the arrest of 66-year-old Gideon Castro, who attended the same high school as the victim, Dawn ...

Several days after Momohara was killed, detectives interviewed Castro, who graduated from McKinley High in 1976. He said he ...

Rex Heuermann’s attorney said in court Wednesday that the DNA technique used by a lab to allegedly link Heuermann to the ...

Heuermann is due back in court on February 18. His attorney, Michael Brown, continued to argue this type of DNA has never ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.