A DNA sample taken from a rape victim in 2003 had no link to a man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for the attack, a ...

Police say new DNA evidence led to charges nearly 46 years after Susan Vesey was killed in her Everett home.

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

Iowa House advances ‘Katie’s Law’ requiring DNA collection after certain arrests ...

A witness described comments Sylvia Ortiz-Velez made about a fellow lawmaker as “personal attacks" that were “outside the bounds of political response," according to court filings.

Paul Quinn denies rape. Prosecutors say another man, Andrew Malkinson, was previously wrongly convicted in the case.

Use of DNA evidence against the 'Monster of the Miramichi' set important legal precedent for decades to come, according to one expert.

The British actress plays a younger version of beloved forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta in the Amazon adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's best selling novels: "To play someone who doesn't really care ...

The sheriff in charge of the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance says while they still don’t know who broke into ...

Stephen Gale, accused of raping two Framingham store employees in 1989, was captured in Los Angeles in 2024 after decades on ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Unidentified Human Remains DNA Initiative has led to a breakthrough in another ...

As we move through the world, we leave behind invisible traces of ourselves encased in the hair, skin, and other bodily matter we shed. These tiny pieces of DNA—known as environmental DNA or eDNA—have ...