Frank Thies was convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls at knifepoint in 1987 in the woods of Exeter.

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

The remains of an unidentified black male were discovered among a pile of concrete rubble in Arizona in the late 1980s. For ...

A man suspected of a series of suspected sexual assaults in Sacramento, California, over a decade ago, was identified and arrested through the use of investigative genetic genealogy, officials ...

Toronto police say a dead Ontario man is now believed to be behind at least three long-unsolved killings of women dating back ...

Students at Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center are gaining a reputation for solving cold cases. Most recently, they solved the case of a woman reported missing in 2014. When the ...

A group of college students helped unravel a nine-year mystery when they identified remains found in North Carolina woods as ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A British man found dead in Arizona more than a decade ago has finally been identified, thanks to a pioneering DNA technology. Michael Hill, 75, died in February 2013 while visiting a friend in the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - She’s only known as “Jane Tucson doe 1979” in various law enforcement and missing persons databases ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to conduct a two-day public workshop on law enforcement use of probabilistic genotyping, forensic DNA ...