Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

For many weeks now, the gruesome quadruple murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have been the subject of intense national coverage ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

BALTIMORE — Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- As 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger awaits extradition to Idaho to face murder charges, questions are mounting about how police were able to name their suspect in the high-profile ...

Investigators searching for clues in the Arizona kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie are turning to genetic genealogy, a forensic technology that has already helped to crack several notorious cold cases in ...

Authorities investigating Nancy Guthrie's disappearance may use DNA genealogy databases to find leads. Experts emphasize the ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — An Indiana prosecutor is crediting genealogy databases with helping identify a suspect in the 1988 abduction, rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl, saying criminals should be ...

Decades-old DNA evidence and a commercial genealogy database helped police solve the 1971 murder of Rita Curran, Burlington’s oldest cold case, authorities said Tuesday. An upstairs neighbor, William ...

Investigators in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance are considering DNA genealogy databases as a potential tool to identify suspects, similar to past cases that utilized this technology.