Austin police solved the 1991 "Yogurt Shop Murders" using advanced DNA technology, identifying Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect.

After 34 years, the Austin Police Department announced Friday it linked a suspect to the murder of four girls who were found ...

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 ...

One of those is 53-year-old Leo Hickman, from east Hampshire, who used DNA testing to solve the mystery of his paternal ...

NEW YORK (WRGB) — Over 600 cases across the U.S. have been solved using genetic genealogy and DNA sequencing. Family trees once thought to be a fun project for the family historian are quickly ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...

Seeking to stop a rapist, veteran DNA detective CeCe Moore found herself fighting a battle among the trees—family trees, that ...

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.

DNA testing site, Ancestry.com, has taken legal action to access millions of Scottish family records held by the National ...