A powerful DNA database helped crack a 30-year-old cold case. Experts say CODIS is transforming investigations and solving ...

Family members of migrants and forensic investigators who study migrant deaths are reeling in the wake of a puzzling outage ...

A DNA sample was obtained from the remains and entered into both the California Missing Persons DNA Database and the National ...

A 60-year-old cold case murder of a San Rafael banker's wife has been closed, thanks to help from advanced DNA technology.

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (CNN) — Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would ...

In 1996, a human skull found in Arcata went unidentified. DNA testing has now identified the remains as Gregory Hugh Oliver, ...

For decades, David Hill thought he had escaped justice for the rape of a woman at knifepoint in an underground car park in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — A stay-at-home mother from The Woodlands has helped solve a 33-year-old cold case by identifying a Jane Doe whose body was discovered in 1992. That gave a daughter answers about ...

The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal ...

A genealogy nonprofit helped the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office identify remains found on a beach in 2022 as a Santa Rosa ...