For decades, Rebecca “Becky” Burke’s family feared the worst. The Smyrna native had lost contact with many of them in the 1980s after falling deeper into substance abuse, sparked by prescription ...

All it takes is a single strand of DNA to solve murder cases where the trail went cold decades ago. Genetic genealogy, which compares DNA testing with genetic databases to construct a reverse family ...

A body in the river. A murdered boy. A teenage runaway found dead in the brush. Each is a case with an unanswered question: Who killed them? Detectives are increasingly turning toward genetic ...

The use of genetic material in forensic science has progressed significantly since its implementation little over 30 years ago. Now, scientists believe that not only can genes provide information to ...

n the mid-1980s, tragedy struck two villages in Leicestershire, England. In two separate instances, three years apart, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on their way home from school. On ...

In July 2009, a woman brought her husband to the hospital where our colleagues work in western Kenya. She reported that for several years he had been behaving abnormally, sleeping poorly, hearing ...