Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was formed to update and clarify discussion of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant breakthrough” in the brutal crime that has haunted Texas ...

FIRST ON FOX: DENVER — Genetic genealogists working on the University of Idaho student murders case found "hundreds of times" more DNA than a typical case as they raced to solve the quadruple stabbing, which rocked the college town of Moscow, Idaho, as ...

Appellate judges questioned DNA linking Richard Aguirre to 1986 murder Defense argued 2018 bag DNA resulted from lab transfer and testing protocols Prosecutors cited admissions and other evidence; judges seek records on bag testing The DNA that helped link ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and dental records – that could come in handy while ...

LONG ISLAND, NY — Despite another attempt by the defense attorney for accused Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann to render critical DNA evidence inadmissible at trial — on Tuesday, the judge ruled for a second time to allow the DNA. And in a second ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant breakthrough” in the brutal crime that has haunted Texas ...