Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theresa Fusco was 16 when she was killed on her way home from her job at a roller skating rink. - Nassau County District ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Crime Lab has access to the national DNA database that helps match samples and identify possible criminals. CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a ...

Nearly all states allow charges to be brought for certain rape cases decades after the crime. But the deadline in Massachusetts is only 15 years, even when police make a DNA match. Member station WBUR ...

New York (CNN) — For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, ...

A Boston woman's rape case fell apart after a DNA match came too late for prosecution, revealing how Massachusetts' 15-year deadline leaves many survivors without justice. WBUR's Willoughby Mariano ...

DNA testing of the vaginal swab found Kogut and the two other convicted men, Dennis Halstead and John Restivo, weren’t a match. The indictments against all three men were eventually dismissed. In 2014 ...