A Victorian cold case shows how DNA and family history can work together—and why this powerful technique demands care.

The investigation took an unexpected turn earlier this year when detectives learned that one of the suspects had died just two days before DNA evidence linked him to the crime.

A new study finds both autistic and non-autistic suspects may be judged more harshly if any idiosyncratic behaviors in ...

The initiative brings together forensic science with ethical, cultural and legal approaches to help families resolve the ...

“Photo 51” was a cleaner version of an earlier X-ray image—Photo 49—that Rosalind Franklin had already used to calculate key features of DNA, challenging long-held assumptions about her role in the ...

Forensic scientists, medical examiners, emergency response personnel, and organ and tissue donation professionals in Milwaukee County now share one roof. The State of Wisconsin and Milwaukee County ...

The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) is working with 12 hospitals, 64 police departments, forensic ...

After more than 42 years, using modern forensic DNA technology and extensive police work, investigators have finally ...

Emma Lee Jordan, born in 1957, has been positively identified, nearly fifty years after her remains were discovered in rural Franklin County, Missouri.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named Texas State University’s Kate Spradley, Ph.D., one of the foundation’s 20 fellows selected for 2026. The honor, often referred to as a ...

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 Benton County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new step in a nearly 50-year-old cold case involving an unidentified newborn whose body was discovered in a wooded area of Benton County in 1977. On ...