A defense attorney for accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann wants to block prosecutors from introducing DNA analysis they say links her client to the killing of six women, arguing that the ...

Police cold-case units face a new challenge in solving decades-old killings. With the world's largest storehouse of genealogy ...

FILE - Suffolk County Police conduct a search, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, along a beachfront road in Babylon, N.Y., where four bodies were found during a hunt for a missing New Jersey woman. (AP ...

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At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that evidence was tested may now determine whether prosecutors can use it against their ...

"It’s not magic — it’s science." That was the final point put forth by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office on Friday in its legal brief to persuade a judge that novel genetic testing and ...

The Kern County Sheriff's Office has teamed up with Othram, a private lab specializing in forensic DNA analysis, to generate new leads in the unsolved murder of Juanita Francisco. The beloved baker ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

Decades after a brutal rape, a groundbreaking technique has finally exposed the attacker, solving a puzzle that once stumped investigators: how to tell identical twins apart using only DNA. The 1987 ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical ...