DNA

Authorities identified a man Friday who they say killed four women in the Denver, Colorado area four decades ago after a technological breakthrough helped solve a series of cold cases that had long eluded investigators.

DNA evidence and new forensic technology are helping propel the investigation into the 1993 cold case killing of 73-year-old Maxine Bitomski.

Maxine Bitomski, 73, was killed in her Kittery, Maine home 29 years ago. Her grandchildren are still calling for answers.

A man convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl more than three decades ago is asking a court to allow advanced DNA testing on the victim’s clothes. The Portland Press Herald reports that Dennis Dechaine attended a Superior Court hearing virtually on Friday at the Knox County Courthouse in Rockland. Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the murder and sexual assault...

Starting Monday, inbound travelers to the U.S., including citizens, have to make time and budget for Covid tests closer to their departure date.

A U.S. appeals court ruling urges Congress to correct a disparity that doesn’t allow members of the military convicted by a court-martial the same avenues as civilian prisoners to seek DNA testing that could exonerate them.

A study published Friday in the journal Science Advances shows that just a sliver of our genome is uniquely shared with other humans, and not shared by other extinct groups like Neanderthals and Denisovans

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

Nearly five years after Vanessa Marcotte was killed while out for a run in Princeton, attorneys for the murder suspect are asking the court to throw out DNA taken from their client.

Angelo Colon-Ortiz, the man accused of killing Vanessa Marcotte, is looking to toss key DNA evidence that links him to the crime during a hearing Wednesday morning in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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A convicted sex offender was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old Southern California boys in the 1980s.

Authorities have finally identified two homicide victims who were found in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi.

Millions of people use dating apps to find their matches, but one using your DNA is in the works in Cambridge.

Home DNA-testing company 23andMe laid off 100 employees this week due to declining sales.

The U.S. government on Monday launched a pilot program to collect DNA from people in immigration custody and submit it to the FBI, with plans to expand nationwide. The information would go into a massive criminal database run by the FBI, where it would be held indefinitely. A memo outlining the program published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security said...

A dismembered and headless John Doe, whose remains were found in Idaho caves, has been identified as a murderer who died shortly after he escaped jail more than 100 years ago....
The remarkably well preserved remains of Joseph Henry Loveless were believed to have been placed in the Civil Defense Caves near Dubois, Idaho, in 1916. His torso was found in...

Senior Pentagon officials have told members of the Armed Forces to skip what may seem like the perfect holiday gift — an at-home DNA test.

A Baltimore man is suing over a take-home paternity test he says incorrectly indicated he was the father of a 1-year-old girl. Nnanaka Nwofor wants the Ohio-based testing company to pay $75,000 for the cost of supporting the child and her mother and the pain of learning he wasn’t the father.