The FBI has turned to a range of advanced forensic tools, including its NGI system, to unravel the mystery of who abducted 84 ...

QIAGEN chooses Bode Technology as its exclusive global commercial partner to accelerate use of GEDmatch PRO genealogy database in law enforcement and identification of human remains // Collaboration ...

The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs awarded grants totaling more than $145 million on January 16 to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic ...

On Tuesday, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified the remains of a Eureka man who was lost at sea over 35 years ago thanks to the aid of a genetic genealogy company. Milton Leon Pelligrini ...

Forensic DNA analysis has fundamentally changed criminal investigations, providing an unprecedented level of accuracy in identifying suspects, exonerating the innocent, and solving cold cases. And ...

Can DNA typing uniquely identify the source of a sample? Because any two human genomes differ at about 3 million sites, no two persons (barring identical twins) have the same DNA sequence. Unique ...

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve cold cases.

In April 2018, a remarkable event occurred that forever impacted criminal investigations. The Golden State Killer was finally arrested. And, more interestingly, was the method law enforcement used to ...

San Luis Obispo County investigators have solved a decades-old cold case, using forensic genealogy to identify a suspect in the 1983 murder of Dorothy "Toby" Tate. “Our job is to speak for the victims ...

For decades, Rebecca “Becky” Burke’s family feared the worst. The Smyrna native had lost contact with many of them in the 1980s after falling deeper into substance abuse, sparked by prescription ...