Improved DNA testing helped lead to a breakthrough in the 30-year-old Morgan Nick kidnapping case last fall when trace hair ...

The district attorney's office said one victim told investigators she had "waited 40 years" to receive closure.

The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting ...

Last year, I added my DNA profile to a private genealogical database, FamilyTreeDNA, and clicked “Yes” to allow the police to ...

His request, made last week and immediately accepted by a DPS official, means all HPD cases will also be removed from a national database of DNA evidence used to solve crimes.

Police use genealogy DNA database to crack cold case where disabled woman was raped, beaten 27-year-old Jorge Post was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a disabled ...

Phoenix police used a national DNA database to arrest a man linked to multiple kidnapping and sexual assault cases dating back 27 years. Abraham Ramirez, 54, was recently arrested in connection ...

The government has added the DNA of 1.5 million immigrants to an "offender" database used by law enforcement. A new study challenges the legality of the work.

Patients and doctors need to have access to them and patient privacy must be protected at the same time, the author writes.

A New York judge ruled advanced DNA evidence can be used in Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach murder trial, marking a major step in ...