TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The use of genetic evidence to solve cold cases has had a surge of popularity in the media and among law enforcement agencies, helping officers bring justice to alleged criminals ...

Physical evidence from the 1974 murders of two St. Cloud sisters is undergoing new DNA technological analysis. Results could be tested against Herbert Notch, a man with a storied criminal history.

For nearly three decades, Yvonne "Missy" Woods was Colorado’s star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test DNA evidence in the state’s most baffling crimes. Her work was ...

In August, a manufacturer of DNA testing kits sent a letter to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department warning officials to stop using certain test kits that had proved prone to giving incomplete ...

Services that allow people to submit a sample of their DNA—typically saliva—in order to obtain information about their genetic ancestry or find biological relatives have spiked in recent years. In ...