For most of the history of forensic DNA testing, identical twins presented police and courts with a problem that seemed ...

Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University and chair of the workshop planning committee, moderated this session of the workshop, which focused on FDP (see Box 4-1). The panel featured speakers with ...

Advanced DNA testing has led to an arrest in the 2020 cold case murder of a 21-year-old man found shot to death inside his ...

Thanks to advanced DNA technology, law enforcement has solved a 12-year-old case. Authorities now say the unidentified human remains -- discovered more than a decade ago -- belong to Velma Louise ...

Crime documentaries and courtroom dramas offer only a glimpse into the complex world of forensic science. While DNA analysis plays a key role in identifying suspects or victims, the scope of ...

Forensic DNA analysis can provide conclusive evidence to trace specific individuals to a crime scene and has been instrumental in solving cold cases, exonerating the wrongfully accused and bringing ...

A former analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was sentenced to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to four ...

Yvonne “Missy” Woods was convicted of felony cybercrime, first-degree perjury, attempting to influence a public servant and ...

Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers have turned their focus on securing untested forensic evidence now that a presiding judge has determined his April retrial will occur in Sumter County.

CHARLOTTE — The Cold Case Unit with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has identified a 2016 deceased victim as Kenneth Robert McCarthy using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Wake County has opened a new DNA forensics laboratory inside the Wake County Detention Center, a move officials say will dramatically shorten the time it takes to process ...

John Butler, National Institute of Standards and Technology, began the session by identifying several issues that had come up repeatedly at the workshop as key areas for further research and work; he ...