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, ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Texas lawmakers this year approved a pilot program to place Rapid DNA machines in two counties' jail booking stations.

FOLSOM, N.J. (WPVI) -- New Jersey State Police are hoping someone out there can help them solve a 40-year-old cold case. It is the October 1978 triple homicide of Gary and Joan Deal and their ...

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

After more than three decades, Austin police said they've finally identified the man who killed four teenage girls at a ...