The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) on Thursday announced it will award a total of $210 million across states, cities and tribal governments to address criminal DNA backlogs ...

Forensic DNA analysis can provide conclusive evidence to trace specific individuals to a crime scene and has been instrumental in solving cold cases, exonerating the wrongfully accused and bringing ...

Legislators should increase state funding for DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy of unidentified human remains, a state task force recommended. The recommendations came from a Washington task ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a high-speed crash on U.S. 31 this summer, authorities had difficulty making a positive identification. The driver had hit a turning flatbed truck June ...

A forensic examiner from the state laboratory took the stand in the trial for Michelle Troconis on Thursday and walked the jury through the testing of dozens of DNA samples collected from Jennifer ...

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has identified their oldest Jane Doe more than 50 years after her corpse was discovered off a desert highway in Arizona. In January 1971, a 5'4" woman’s body wearing ...

The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and Adnan Syed, whose case became nationally known in the “Serial” podcast that ran in 2014, have agreed to request “additional forensic testing,” ...