The Gastonia Police Department has become the first law enforcement agency in Gaston County to receive a $629,000 grant ...

After 46 years of mystery, St. Petersburg Police have used advanced DNA technology to identify their final "John Doe" as ...

The high-profile case has haunted the city for decades after the 32-year-old was slashed to death in her Cotswold home.

Nearly two decades after a 16-year-old girl was found strangled to death in a field near Highway 99, the Tulare County ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Edrick Lamont Faust received two life sentences plus 45 years for the 2001 murder of UGA law student Tara Baker.

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Investigators searching for clues in the Arizona kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie are turning to genetic genealogy, a forensic technology that has already helped to crack several notorious cold cases in ...

With the reward now surpassing $200,000, investigators in Tucson are turning to advanced forensic genetic genealogy after finding no matches in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CODIS database, ...

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 to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Investigative genetic genealogy, which is a relatively new forensic tool, is now being considered in the search for answers in the Nancy Guthrie case.

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve ...