The Commissioner is proposing its own blueprint and legal framework for the use of biometric data in law enforcement across ...

A man suspected of sexually assaulting children from 2000 to 2003 has been arrested after authorities used cutting-edge “genetic genealogy” technology to tie him to the crimes, the Lawrence Police ...

EXCLUSIVE: It's hoped inquests in the new year will bring answers as to what exactly happened inside the walls of an old mill ...

Whether it was a sentencing in the Baby Moses case, an arrest in the 20-year-old murder of Gretchen Perham, or a discovery in ...

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Most people take a 23andMe or AncestryDNA test for fun. Maybe you want to confirm an Irish ancestry or learn something about your health. Well, that’s what you think. What you don’t expect is a ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A family with ties to Connecticut is now one step closer to having closure, thanks to a non-profit that works to provide names to the dead. The body of a woman that was found ...

More than two decades after the sexual assault, law enforcement officers found a DNA match from the North Carolina State Crime Lab and the victim’s evidence kit, connecting David Eric Mills to the ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Auburn Police arrested a 39-year-old man Sunday on charges of first-degree sodomy in connection with a 2008 sexual assault case that remained unsolved for more than 17 years.

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Law enforcement in Oklahoma are calling it a complete game changer — technology that can process DNA evidence from crime scenes in just 90 minutes. The Oklahoma State Bureau of ...