Forensic DNA testing sees improvements in recent years, crime lab director says ...

All of what James Duckett hopes will spare him from being executed next week exists inside a test tube and at the ends of two ...

For nearly five decades, a woman found dead in a California snowbank was known as "Emigrant Gap Jane Doe." Thanks to DNA ...

In this workshop session, moderated by Natalie Ram, University of Maryland King Carey School of Law, presenters provided perspective on law enforcement use of emerging forensic DNA technologies abroad ...

FINALLY SEE JUSTICE. NO FACE, NO NAME, JUST A SINGLE BONE AND A MYSTERY THAT MAY NOW FINALLY BE SOLVED. THERE’S QUITE LITERALLY NO LEADS. THESE SKELETAL REMAINS JUST ARRIVED HERE AT OREM, A FIRST OF ...

A shooting outside a Providence nightclub opens a window on one of the most insidious — and least understood — problems with ...

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

INDIANAPOLIS — The use and success of forensic genealogy has exploded recently. Family trees and DNA are tracking down killers and identifying missing loved ones, often after decades. Now, Indiana ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Characterization, or ''typing," of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for purposes of ...

New research reveals an innovative wildlife forensics method that uses advanced genetic tools and local DNA databases to help authorities solve complex environmental crimes involving multiple species.

Now the Placer County Sheriff's Office says her name may lead to finding out who strangled Melinda Beardsley and left her for dead in 1977.