After 9,257 days, a cigarette butt and forensic genetic genealogy helped in the arrest of a 58-year-old man for sex crimes ...

Police Chief Rich Lockhart said that the cigarette butt along with genetic genealogy technology led law enforcement to David ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - U.S. Marshals arrested a 58-year-old Missouri man Monday in connection with a series of child sexual ...

For more than 40 years it seemed like Karen Umphrey's death would forever remain a mystery. Umphrey was found dead on Nov. 2, 1980, with gunshot wounds. Though DNA was recovered from the scene, a ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Genetic genealogy has helped solve hundreds of cold cases in recent years. The process uses DNA testing and public databases to discover ancestral origins, potentially ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A cutting-edge forensic technique is assisting law enforcement agencies with solving decades-old investigations in Ohio and across the country. On Nov. 3, 1989, the remains of ...

BALTIMORE -- The Harford County Sheriff's Office and the FBI relied on genetic genealogy to track down the suspect wanted for Rachel Morin's murder, Victor Martinez Hernandez. While it is a relatively ...

Michael Coble, executive director, Center for Human Identification (CHI) at University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC), shows DNA test kits to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ...

Carmen Van Huss' father found her body at her apartment in March 1993. A man has been arrested in the 1993 rape and murder of his 19-year-old neighbor in Indiana after he was linked to the case ...

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A man suspected of a series of suspected sexual assaults in Sacramento, California, over a decade ago, was identified and arrested through the use of investigative genetic genealogy, officials ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...