Velma Louise Silva Lee vanished around 2004. Her family gave up searching. Then genealogy databases gave her back her name.

Breakthroughs in synthesis have given rise to a multi-billion dollar industry of mail-order services providing custom synthetic DNA, which has proven incredibly useful to scientists doing valuable ...

The U.S. military announced the remains of U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Ell T. Simantz, 23, of Grand Haven, were ...

DNA testing improvements helped Phoenix police crack more unsolved violent cases, including two this week. A crime scene is ...

Attorney General Matt Platkin wants a judge to dismiss a public records lawsuit over NJ state police use of rapid DNA technology. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor) New Jersey Attorney General Matt ...

John Harris Jr., a 59-year-old resident of Manteca, was at large for more than 30 years — until investigators were able to ...

After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police ...

Canadian authorities have officially solved the mystery of “woman in the well” who died around 100 years ago through DNA ...

DNA breakthroughs are helping Phoenix police crack more unsolved cases, leading to arrests in old violent crimes.

Police in Austin, Texas, said DNA technology has helped them finally identify the man who killed four teenage girls at a ...

It's been nearly a decade since the murder of Millicent Ann Burnette-McManus.In 2016, she was found dead inside her home and police never fou ...

Forensic teams have exhumed the body of Henry Bedard Jr. in Swampscott, Massachusetts to reexamine his 1974 murder.