WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Caroline Smart had no known enemies. No one knew of anyone who would want to hurt her. She was friendly, investigators say, which makes it all the more shocking that she ...

Scientists traced Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome through living relatives, a breakthrough that may confirm his true burial ...

Police made forensic breakthrough after retesting old samples and rapist has now been jailed.

Sheriff’s investigators say updated DNA testing linked an already-imprisoned killer to a cold-case homicide nearly 20 years later. Alonzo Johnson has been charged in Tulsa County for the 2008 cold ...

More than 12 years since a skull was discovered in Mendocino County, advanced DNA testing has revealed that the remains belonged to a Napa woman, officials said. In March 2013, brush cutting workers ...

Since the ’90s, the name of a woman found dead in an Albuquerque motel was unknown, and no family could be identified. But thanks to new technology, an ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, the Austin Police Department (APD) held a press conference detailing how advanced DNA testing led them to identify the suspect responsible for the 1991 murders of four girls ...

A forensic scientist surmised that Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper left loads of his DNA in her home when she was abducted.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — In partnership with Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana, Indiana residents will host the first annual DNA 5K fundraising event on Sept. 20., in recognition of the National Day of ...

As far as crime laboratories go, it is not very impressive-looking. And it is not very big, with a permanent staff of just three forensic scientists and a few interns. But the work product that comes ...