After decades of silence, advancements in DNA technology are bringing long-awaited answers for cold cases in the Upper Midwest ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) solved its second cold case in less than a week. Thomas Hess was found dead in his Seattle apartment on Valentine’s Day 2015. He had blunt force trauma to his head, ...

Genetic genealogy has helped solve hundreds of cold cases in recent years. The process uses DNA testing and public databases to discover ancestral origins, potentially connecting living relatives and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A new forensic process is helping investigators across Oklahoma identify remains in cold cases dating back decades — including a Canadian County case involving a woman who had ...

After 28 years of no answers, DNA has helped solve the cold-case homicide of a floral designer and mother of two who was raped, bludgeoned to death and left face down in a Spokane alley in 1997. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More than 500 missing and murdered children in the United States remain unidentified and unaccounted for, with many families left without answers for decades. Othram, a DNA ...

Colorado law enforcement officials are asking Cedar Rapids residents of Czech or Slovakian descent to submit DNA samples to ...

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy. On Thursday, the sheriff’s office and State Bureau of ...

Investigators have identified a suspect in a Texas quadruple murder cold case more than three decades old. Police in Austin said on Friday that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the murders of ...

For more than four decades, the suspect in the 1981 murder of Elizabeth King at her Moffatt Avenue home remained a mystery. Her case file sat untouched in the archives until September of last year.