DNA testing identifies North Texas murder victim Penny Gunn, bringing a 27-year-old cold case one step closer to resolution.

A sexual assault kit was collected at the time, but the case was later dropped because of insufficient evidence.

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

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 ...

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

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 county plans to build a new DNA analysis wing in its crime lab within three years. But as the field advances, opponents of forensic genealogy are raising ethical issues.

Improved DNA testing helped lead to a breakthrough in the 30-year-old Morgan Nick kidnapping case last fall when trace hair ...

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

SAGA—A forensic DNA analyst here was fired for committing more than 100 acts of misconduct, including fabricating reports about DNA tests that he never performed, Saga prefectural police said on Sept.

DNA and ancestry records are now being used together to build family trees to identify rotten apples among their branches. But while the rapidly emerging field of “forensic genealogy” is solving ...