In 2018, GEDmatch played a key role in reopening the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case. Now a company that serves law enforcement is gobbling it up.

San Diego's Verogen is buying GEDmatch, a site that has been at the center of a controversy over police access to genetic information.

He murdered 13 people, raped at least 50 women, and committed burglaries all across California during the 1970s and 1980s. He was called the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and ...

"We understand that the GEDmatch database was used to help identify the Golden State Killer," GEDmatch operator Curtis Rogers said in a statement released to the paper.

A massive security breach forced GEDmatch to shut down its site and exposed the DNA profiles of more than a million people who use the online service to law enforcement agencies.

Genealogy website GEDmatch, which has been used by police to help solve cold cases, is changing its privacy rules and making it harder for law enforcement to access its DNA data.

How a DNA database's new policy is changing police access and could hinder solving cold cases GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday.

The new owner of GEDmatch, the third-party genealogy site that's helped investigators crack cases using DNA, is vowing to protect privacy by fighting search warrants.