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Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The FBI credited ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Cold cases could be stalled even longer after Ancestry.com's recent change. The DNA and genealogy site clarified its terms and conditions, saying "not to use the services in ...

Barbara Rae-Venter, a 76-year-old patent attorney living in Marina, California, thought she'd spend her retirement leisurely playing tennis, traveling, and indulging in her favorite pastime: ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police department says it solved a 35-year-old homicide by using DNA to find a relative of the alleged killer and then creating a family tree to track him down.

BOISE, Idaho — An innovative approach to criminal investigations first came to the forefront around 2018. Since then, forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has been instrumental in ...

The key to solving Lela Johnston's violent death sat in evidence for nearly 50 years before police had the means to identify her killer. But DNA alone wasn't enough to find out who assaulted and ...