Velma Louise Silva Lee vanished around 2004. Her family gave up searching. Then genealogy databases gave her back her name.

The U.S. military announced the remains of U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Ell T. Simantz, 23, of Grand Haven, were ...

DNA testing improvements helped Phoenix police crack more unsolved violent cases, including two this week. A crime scene is ...

It's been nearly a decade since the murder of Millicent Ann Burnette-McManus.In 2016, she was found dead inside her home and police never fou ...

After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police ...

John Harris Jr., a 59-year-old resident of Manteca, was at large for more than 30 years — until investigators were able to ...

Canadian authorities have officially solved the mystery of “woman in the well” who died around 100 years ago through DNA ...

Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas and Amy Ayers were attacked in the shop and all shot in the head, lead ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Families waiting for answers in Iowa cold cases are finding new hope after DNA technology led to an arrest in a 1983 Linn County murder. Erin Pospisil went missing in Cedar ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

Forensic teams have exhumed the body of Henry Bedard Jr. in Swampscott, Massachusetts to reexamine his 1974 murder.

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...