The Wenatchee Police Department (WPD) closed a 40-year-old homicide investigation after years of insufficient forensic ...

Michigan State Police announced that they had resolved a more than 40-year-old kidnapping and homicide cold case after ...

You follow the thread of a case that sat cold for nearly three decades and feel the moment the silence breaks. Investigators used updated DNA methods and persistent detective work to connect evidence ...

Lesia Michell Jackson would have been in her late 50s by now, perhaps putting kids through college or watching them graduate high school. Instead, the Texas 12-year-old never got the chance to reach ...

Houston company uses forensic genetic genealogy to identify victims, suspects in unsolved crimes ...

New Hampshire authorities have solved the 2007 killing of Carrie Hicks, identifying Wayne Ring as responsible. Forensic evidence showed Hicks could not have shot herself and that Ring killed her. The ...

Thanks to forensic genetic genealogy testing, Wenatchee police have closed out a homicide investigation — forty years to the day.

In 1988, 9 year old Michaela Garecht was abducted from a grocery store parking lot in Hayward, California while riding her ...

BIG RAPIDS, MI - For Ferris State University students, a new criminal justice course will bring valuable real-world experience in reviewing, researching and analyzing unsolved cold cases. For law ...

CULLOWHEE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Western Carolina University announced that in December 2025, it had a hand in solving a 2023 missing persons case. According to the university, six forensic ...

New breaks may be coming in cold cases that have sat unsolved for decades, thanks to new funding for forensic genealogy efforts at the San Antonio Police Department. At a news conference Wednesday, ...