Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SEATTLE — For nearly two decades, one of the country’s most prolific serial murderers haunted the Pacific Northwest as a faceless ...

Skip Palenik knew something was up when a police detective from Boulder, Colo., called his Elgin lab about retrieving a sample in a murder case. It was evidence from the JonBenet Ramsey saga that ...

Tiny paint spheres helped snare serial killer Gary Ridgway after at least 49 murders in Washington. The evidence was on his first victims, records show. SEATTLE — For nearly two decades, one of the ...

Palenik is president and senior research microscopist of Microtrace, an Elgin laboratory he founded in 1992 to analyze microscopic evidence in forensic and industrial work. His high-profile cases have ...

SEATTLE — For nearly two decades, one of the country’s most prolific serial murderers haunted the Pacific Northwest as a faceless specter of death, known only by his notorious nickname: the Green ...