For nearly five decades, a woman found dead in a California snowbank was known as "Emigrant Gap Jane Doe." Thanks to DNA ...

A new mobile forensic lab coming to Connecticut is bringing advanced technology to local police departments, providing law ...

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case have turned to genetic genealogy as they try to make the most of potential DNA ...

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson home on January 31.

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It’s been six weeks since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home. Investigators are being told to start from scratch.

Day four of testimony centered on digital records and forensic analysis, including DNA matches to Aniah Blanchard and ...

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the ...

Although DNA evidence alone is not enough to secure a conviction today, DNA profiling has become the gold standard in forensic science since that first case 30 years ago. Despite being dogged by ...

At 15 stories and 335,500 sf, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner DNA Forensics Biology Laboratory in Manhattan is a big step up from their previous 6,300-sf facility. Designed by ...

A body without a head or hands that was found hidden in a suitcase in New York state has finally been identified, 42 years after the victim was killed. According to a statement from the New York State ...

Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...