When a woman from Hull discovered she was half-Icelandic, she set out to track down her relatives.

California has expanded its Missing Persons DNA Program under recently signed legislation, broadening DNA identification efforts to help solve cases.

It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a potential suspect identified against whom to compare it. A DNA test would ...

State and county leaders began work on the $1.5 million facility after it secured funding in 2022. At the time, they said the ...

John Ramsey says forensic genetic genealogy could finally name his daughter's killer as Boulder police confirm the CBI DNA scandal had no case effect.

DNA from a used plastic fork put an Arlington real estate agent behind bars in a 14-year-old cold case, according to an affidavit supporting her arrest warrant. Mayra Velasquez, 42, was arrested July ...

Inspired by long-lived animals — and human centenarians — researchers are hunting for ways to enhance DNA repair and extend ...

TAMPA, Fla. — With the help of advances in DNA testing technology, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced it has solved three separate cold cases dating back to 2005. HCSO's Cold Case Unit ...

A renewed push by Arlington's cold‑case unit has apparently solved one of the city's most brutal homicides, 14 years after police say a woman was stabbed nearly 100 times in her apartment. Arlington ...

After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland teenager who died in one of the last big battles of the American Revolution can ...