When a homicide detective in California’s Central Valley last year reopened the investigation into the unsolved killing of a bakery owner, she turned to an increasingly popular forensic tool credited

Forensic investigators confirm that DNA recovered from the home and nearby evidence failed to match any national database profiles.

Nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home, law enforcement says a glove found not far from the residence did not match any DNA in the government’s criminal

While DNA evidence found on a glove believed to have been worn by a man suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie didn't produce a match in the FBI's database, it could still give investigators the clues they need.

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve cold cases.

Forensic genealogy has helped investigators track down serial killers, now police are using it to try to identify Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper. The post Forensic genealogy helped catch killers. Can it find Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper?

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first used for cold cases — is helping to solve active cases as well.