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 ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

A decades old homicide investigation in St Petersburg has taken a major step forward after investigators used modern forensic techniques to identify a man who had remained unnamed since 1980.

A 39-year-old Michigan cold case sexual assault has been solved using forensic genealogy. Northern Michigan University students working with Michigan State Police identified a 78-year-old Wisconsin ...