HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com ...

Police said forensic testing and genetic genealogy identified Kenneth Smith as the person who killed two women in the 1980s ...

As part of a new and remarkable partnership, detectives gave a cold case file to students in a criminology class at the ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

On May 23, 2000, the 27-year-old victim came home and discovered Santiago, masked and hiding in her closet, officials said.

The articles show how innovative DNA technology solves cold cases after decades. Investigators use genetic genealogy and national DNA databases to connect suspects or identify victims. New DNA methods ...

For nearly four decades, the murder of Rhonda Marie Fisher haunted investigators in Douglas County, Colorado. Fisher, a ...

The BriefThe Osceola County Sheriff's Office announced it had solved two cold cases.The cases—a fatal stabbing from 2007 and ...

New information given to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office has led to a search effort of the Dole Valley area in hopes of ...

More than nine years after the death of a Neah Bay man, a new cold case unit under the Washington Attorney General’s Office recently helped secure a murder conviction in the case.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) shared Tuesday that a nearly 40-year-old cold case had recently been solved, ...

Best-selling Canton author Chuck Hogan told a crowd at Stonehill how he came to write a true crime book about suburban moms ...