DNA for decades has been law enforcement's slam-dunk, an invaluable tool to identify human remains and put killers and rapists at the scene of the crime. But until a year ago, searches for unknown ...

Dear Amy: My brother and I are the byproducts of extramarital affairs our mother had between 1943 and 1953, presumably to the same man. For decades we were led to believe that the father who raised us ...

Twenty years ago on a Sunday afternoon a body washed up on the banks of the Delaware River behind a Bensalem shipping company. The man appeared to be between 30 and 40 years old, he was estimated to ...

Like familial DNA searching, where state or national DNA databanks are searched for relatives of a suspect, a genealogical database search is an investigative technique that is not admitted at trial.

DNA is supposed to be the answer for solving cold cases. For example, Wisconsin police have turned to DNA to help solve a 42-year-old cold case of “Baby Sarah.” Recently in Niagara Falls, cops found ...

Orlando police detective Michael Fields was sure he had the break he needed right in front of him to close in on a serial rapist: a list of people whose DNA partially matched the man he hunted. Then ...