A DNA discovery has a Dorchester man facing charges in connection to a 36-year-old cold case.The Suffolk County District ...

A sexual assault case at a college went unsolved for many years until officers received a DNA hit, finally leading to an ...

James Aaron Whisenand was tied to the attack of a 61-year-old woman after his DNA was submitted to authorities following a ...

Faced with unreliable data, reporters scrutinized dozens of agencies to determine how many rapists were convicted and how ...

You may have learned how DNA testing can lead to suspects being identified in cold cases and in unsolved homicides, but there’s more to the practice than most know.

There are still 1,103 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City who haven’t been identified despite ongoing ...

Now that Paula Ann Lundgren's identity is known, the sheriff's office hopes "new leads can be developed as to how she came to ...

The nationwide effort aimed to clear backlogged sexual assault kits and put rapists behind bars. The $350M investment has netted about 1,500 convictions so far.

Local governments lost his birth records. But Paul J. Hammond used DNA testing to learn his roots aren’t in Georgetown. His ...

SJPD detectives from the original case along with the DA’s Cold Case Unit and Crescent City police, worked to confirm the DNA match, which was authenticated last month, according to the news ...

It was Thanksgiving Day 2023 when Jackie Novak says she received an email from the DNA testing company, Embark, that she ...