Human remains discovered in 1974 near a northeastern Illinois creek have been identified through forensic DNA testing as a suburban Chicago man who vanished in the early 1970s, officials said. The ...

Prosecutors at Karen Read's second murder trial on Friday focused on DNA found on items collected from the crime scene and on clothing of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read, 45, is accused of ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A forensic scientist is no longer working with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation after “anomalies” were discovered in her DNA testing work. According to CBI, the former CBI employee ...

A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist violated standard testing protocols and manipulated DNA test results in hundreds of cases, prompting further investigation into her ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is finalizing a contract with a startup from Wisconsin to assess its forensics lab after former forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Wood was found to have ...

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 ...

The Trinidad Harbor seen in 2019. A man walking along the nearby shore found a skull fragment that investigators later confirmed was among the remains of a woman who disappeared in 1987. (Myung J.

The King County Sheriff’s Office has acquired a $230,000 Rapid DNA machine that can process crime scene evidence in approximately 90 minutes, a task that previously took weeks or months at the state ...

Nationally, about one in three survivors of sexual assault ever report their experiences to law enforcement, according to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. Texas is betting that gap is ...

The Gilgo Beach murder case is moving toward a trial, but two defense requests are slowing things down. Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear ...