After 27 years as “Jane Doe,” the woman found in Lake Ray Hubbard has been identified as Penny Gunn through forensic DNA ...

Queensland’s embattled forensic lab has not tested the majority of its DNA samples for more than two months as a ...

Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was linked to his alleged victims using DNA testing known as whole genome ...

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that ...

Rex Heuermann loses bid to exclude DNA evidence linking him to seven Gilgo Beach serial killing victims found along Long ...

Othram, a Texas-based DNA company specializing in forensic genetic genealogy, has identified the remains of a Pennsylvania woman who was found dead in Maryland nearly 55 years ago. In July 1971, the ...

A newly developed test could make checking DNA from people arrested for crimes with DNA samples from crime scenes stored in forensic databases almost as easy as matching fingerprints. With the ...

A judge allowed key DNA evidence to be used in Rex Heuermann’s trial in the Gilgo Beach case. It’s a significant advancement ...

Hair has been notoriously tricky to analyze, but a new approach by UC Santa Cruz researchers — pulling DNA from samples that are damaged or contaminated — is expanding the available pool of ...

The use of short tandem repeats (STRs) for the identification of animals has developed alongside similar STR applications for humans. Population studies, kinship analysis, paternity testing, and ...