You follow the thread of a case that sat cold for nearly three decades and feel the moment the silence breaks. Investigators used updated DNA methods and persistent detective work to connect evidence ...

Forensic scientists testified in the murder trial of Edrick Faust, accused of killing UGA law student Tara Baker in 2001.

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

Nashville police use forensic genetic genealogy to identify remains found decades ago, solving multiple unidentified remains ...

Is a Texas lab the key to solving the Nancy Guthrie disappearance? Othram takes tiny, degraded samples of DNA to build a ...

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.

Despite a rare breakthrough in another decades-old cold case last week, the father of one of the Frog Boys says time has done little to ease the grief or to bring his son’s killer any closer to ...

Investigators searching for clues in the Arizona kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie are turning to genetic genealogy, a forensic technology that has already helped to crack several notorious cold cases in ...

It took decades for Carla Walker’s killer to finally get caught and put behind bars. “This is a time of healing. It’s funny ...

A group of forensic anthropology students searched the woods for evidence.

Prosecutors say advances in forensic science reopened a long-cold case, leading to an arrest and new details about a violent ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) — Evidence that could solve murders, convict drug dealers and close cold cases first has to make it through South Carolina’s forensic laboratory. South Carolina Law Enforcement’s ...