April Stonehouse, a forensic science professor at Arizona State University, said the flashlight represents “a great source of ...

A DNA sample taken from a rape victim in 2003 had no link to a man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for the attack, a ...

The fourth day of witness testimony in the capital murder trial of Ibraheem Yazeed was highlighted by the testimonies of three investigators with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences ...

Othram, a forensic DNA lab in The Woodlands, confirms they are in talks with all law enforcement working the Guthrie case. FOX 26's Sally MacDonald spoke to Othram co-founder Kristen Mittelman about ...

The arrest marks a milestone for the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad, which turned to the emerging DNA technology after reviewing unsolved matters dating back to the 1990s and early 2000s.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Austin Thompson, 18, was sentenced to life without possibility of parole Friday for all five counts of first-degree murder. The judge ruled he was sentenced to at least 157 ...

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage by sending DNA samples to commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve long-dormant cold cases. The use of Forensic Investigative ...

A key piece of evidence could provide investigators with additional context surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from her Tucson, Arizona, home as the search for the missing 84-year-old stretches ...

Robert Wayne Kwan, from South Kempsey on the state’s Mid North Coast, had his matter mentioned briefly in court on Thursday, a day after he was arrested over the cold case. NSW Police said they used ...

At 10:22 a.m., Wendell Ivory, a forensic scientist supervisor in the forensic biology section at the NC State Crime Lab, took the stand. Ivory outlined the basic procedures used for DNA testing at the ...

Police say 100 full or partial sets of human remains were found in Jonathan Gerlock's home in Eforta, Lancaster County. Now investigators are tasked with identifying who these people were. They ...

Much of the controversy about the forensic use of DNA has involved population genetics. In this chapter, we first explain the principles that are generally applicable. We then consider the special ...