Investigators in Montana, working with forensic experts, have solved the 1978 homicide of 16-year-old Corina Contreraz by analyzing DNA from an unlikely source: a fingerprint card collected in 1982 ...

The Conyers Police Department has positively identified human remains found in 2016 as Tammy Fortson, a woman who went ...

Police say new DNA technology helped solve the 45-year-old murders of Lynn Vest and her 2-year-old nephew, Jeremy Pickens.

Nearly 30 years after a human skull was found on a California road, there is some closure. Using advanced DNA testing, the remains found in 1996 have been identified as belonging to Gregory Hugh ...

A 67-year-old man named Michael D. Graham was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for a 1996 sexual assault of a six-year-old girl in San Diego, a cold case solved through a DNA match following ...

The Dallas Police Department is utilizing modern DNA technology and investigative genetic genealogy to crack thousands of unsolved cold cases, successfully identifying killers in murders dating back ...

DNA taken from five fingerprint cards nearly a half-century old finally solved the murder of 16-year-old Corina Contreraz, who was killed in ...

In April 2018, California authorities revealed that they’d used a novel investigative technique to arrest a man they called the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer who’d escaped capture for decades ...

A 1986 Baltimore cold case solved through DNA. David Alexander Williams charged in the killing of dancer Teresa Ann Houck after nearly 40 years.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- One of the oldest cold cases ever solved using DNA is giving a Revolutionary War soldier his name back after nearly 250 years. Private John Pumphrey of Maryland disappeared at the ...

A veteran's 1987 murder has been solved, after the now-deceased suspect's DNA matched evidence at the scene of the killing, authorities said.

The Lane County Sheriff's Office announced it has solved a more than 30-year-old homicide cold case through DNA testing from a deceased suspect. Roy C. Gomes was implicated in the death of Joni Marie ...