Authorities say advances in forensic genetic genealogy solved two cold cases in Brockton, Massachusetts, identifying a ...

Mark Sanfratello pleads guilty and receives 20 years in prison for the 1983 cold case killing of his girlfriend Teresa Peroni after a 43-year wait.

Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

Lab at UNH analyzes and identifies human skeletal remains. It’s contributed to solving a number of cold cases in recent years ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

When a homicide detective in California’s Central Valley last year reopened the investigation into the unsolved killing of a bakery owner, she turned to an increasingly popular forensic tool credited ...

Of the 4,017 adult sex crime incident reports that had been suspended, the forensic science center reported 1,147 had associated sexual assault kits that were tested for DNA. 76 of those kits found ...

Twenty-five years after Mary Jane Doe’s remains were found nearly completely decomposed, a forensic artist created a facial reconstruction to show what the woman might have looked like in life. Beth ...

New research reveals an innovative wildlife forensics method that uses advanced genetic tools and local DNA databases to help authorities solve complex environmental crimes involving multiple species.

"Discrepancies" with fingerprint evidence in at least eight cases have surfaced in an ongoing review of years of criminal cases in Tempe. All have been reassigned to detectives, and county prosecutors ...