CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a database consisting of DNA from convicted offenders, unsolved crime ...

Local investigators working with cutting-edge technology and a Texas-based company are solving decades-old murders, ...

Forensic genealogy lab Othram is helping law enforcement agencies solve cold cases, including Albany's 61-year-old unsolved ...

Forensic genetic genealogy has transformed how law enforcement solves cold cases and could also help Guam crack open ...

TThe University of Leicester announced today that British authorities used the nation's feline DNA database (Yes, the UK has one) to convict a man of manslaughter, according to the Associated Press.

Thanks to advanced DNA technology, authorities say the identified human remains found 12 years ago belong to Velma Louise Silva Lee of Napa.

The Texas Department of Public Safety recognized its Crime Laboratory Division during National Forensic Science Week, highlighting the forensic team’s processing of over 115,000 testing requests last ...

After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police Lisa Davis said, "advances in science and technology" allowed ...

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

Authorities in Albany have identified the man they say raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death a woman inside her home more ...

DNA has finally given one of the nation's most haunting cold case a name: Robert Eugene Brashers.Police in Austin, Texas, ...