For nearly fourteen years, a set of bones found under a busy Chicago overpass sat in a file labeled only with a case number.

The Cold Case Unit with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has identified a 2016 deceased victim as Kenneth Robert McCarthy using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. The skeletal ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says its Forensic Science Laboratory DNA facility is now fully functional. The sheriff’s office said the lab halted DNA testing after identifying a DNA profile ...

The Gilgo Beach murder case is moving toward a trial, but two defense requests are slowing things down. Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear ...

The method relies on a unique dental structure, past imaging, and existing dental records. It enables an initial determination within a short time, even under harsh conditions.

Kati Weis is a Murrow Award-winning reporter for CBS News based in New Orleans, covering the Southeast. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at CBS News Colorado in their Denver newsroom ...

(CNN) — Melonie White was a young mother of a baby boy, a stylish lover of fashion and on an inspired search for a new career when her body was found strangled and lifeless. White was 27 years old ...

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security, PCR ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – On the third day of a high-profile evidentiary hearing in Orange County, forensic experts took the stand Wednesday as the legal team for 80-year-old Tommy Zeigler sought to use modern ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

With only five exonerations, lawmakers weigh bills that would update Delaware's DNA evidence practices, aligning the state ...

n the mid-1980s, tragedy struck two villages in Leicestershire, England. In two separate instances, three years apart, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on their way home from school. On ...