Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity ...

China, for quite some time, has been harvesting DNA from people all around the world, including Americans. Much of this has been done through buying up ...

Nearly 58 years ago, Marise Chiverella was murdered and her body left in a hole in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. She was only 9 years old. State police ...

HAZLETON, Pa.—DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled ...

Using genetic genealogy and familial DNA, police in Colorado have solved the decades-old cases of the deaths of four females, saying the killer was a man ...

AURORA, Ind.—DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman ...

BOULDER, Colo.—Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say DNA hasn’t been ruled out to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in ...

Partial human remains found in a garbage bag nearly 40 years ago have been identified as belonging to Frank “Frankie” Little Jr, a member of the ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001 killing of a Massachusetts ...

Advanced DNA testing and genome sequencing helped Las Vegas police crack the case of a 16-year-old girl who was found dead 42 years ago, investigators announced ...

The COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China continues to expand, with multiple transmission chains spreading to 20 provinces. Authorities have admitted that the DNA sequence of the ...

Three decades after infant remains were found in a North Carolina beach town, police say they have arrested and charged a couple based on new DNA ...

A newly discovered hat with DNA evidence proving it belonged to the legendary European statesman Napoleon Bonaparte was previewed by auction house Bonhams in Hong Kong ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A Brazilian man who died in a plane crash in South America in 2005 is responsible for the slayings of three Florida women two ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.—A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student who mistook his ...

Police in Las Vegas released images and offered rewards for information that would identify a child who had been found dead on a desert trail.

In this special report, we discuss Beijing’s ambition over one of the most sensitive types of data—DNA. The Chinese Communist Party is allegedly collecting DNA around ...

For over three decades, Montana police have been trying to identify the skeletal remains of a woman. Now they have identified them as belonging to Janet ...

A Chinese biotech company tied to the country’s military had reportedly tried to set up virus test labs in the United States. An expert says Beijing ...

Anthony Quinn Warner, the person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing, died at the scene, and his DNA was found at the site of ...

After nearly 38 agonizing years, the family of Kelly Ann Prosser finally has some closure. Police in Columbus, Ohio, said Friday they cracked the cold case ...

NEW YORK—The genetics revolution has begun, in which scientists now have the ability to "hack the code of all of life, including our own" by manipulating ...

Police near Chicago say advances in DNA testing have helped them solve the case of a 16-year-old girl who was strangled in 1976.

A Georgia man who served 17 years of a 20-year sentence has been exonerated from his rape conviction and released from prison, after a judge agreed ...

Police: DNA Links Florida Man to 'Serial' Slayings of Women.

An 11-year-old girl went on a bike ride on Thanksgiving Day in 1972. The next day her body was found dumped on a rocky beach near ...