A 2001 Cape Girardeau rape was purportedly solved when DNA evidence matched that of a Missouri prison inmate, officials said. Ontario R. Reed, 23, formerly of the Malden, Mo., area, was charged ...

But now, cutting-edge genetic research has uncovered the strongest clues yet as to what brought his short life and reign to an end. A team of scientists from Egypt’s National Research Centre and Cairo ...

A California murder went unsolved for nearly 30 years, until one DNA match cracked the decades-old case. You can also get more behind-the-scenes of each week's episode by listening to "20/20: The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More than 500 missing and murdered children in the United States remain unidentified and unaccounted for, with many families left without answers for decades. Othram, a DNA ...

The 1982 cold case of Charles Nunnenman, once the Western Reserve John Doe, has been solved using DNA and genealogy research.

“It’s groundbreaking to have it in the police department,” said Detective Glenn Vandegrift of the Bensalem Police Department. “If we can do it, any department in the country can do it.” Bensalem, a ...

DNA evidence from East San Jose house where 84-year-old Alice Sharitz was murdered in 1997 led to the December arrest of ...

Using blood found on Mena's shoe, Hutchison found a genetic match in 2023. It was linked to a man named Samuel Silva, who had ...

The Reading Eagle published a story on its front page in 1990 about a Pennsylvania mother who had been brutally murdered two years earlier—an article that would indirectly lead to the mother’s killer ...

A "depraved and dangerous" rapist has been jailed for life for a crime he committed 20 years ago after scientific advances enabled old crime-scene samples to be matched using new DNA techniques. James ...