Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Cold Case Unit have identified a 1996 murder victim using forensic genetic genealogy.
read more
More than forty years later, in 2019, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's investigators revisited the case and submitted several items of evidence to the California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensic Services for traditional forensic DNA testing.
read more
“Its goal is to adopt best practices of forensic science to help solve and deter violent crime, which is an issue within so many communities both here and elsewhere,” said Javan.
read more
When you send your DNA off for a personalized ancestry report, the report you get back is only a very small view of your family tree pinned in a specific point and space in time.
read more
Themes of medicine and anatomy run through López’s art, with purple and deep red color schemes in her series “Histological Embodiment,” inspired by a branch of anatomy that deals with minute tissue structures.
read more
In 2024, 147 people in the United States were exonerated after losing an average of 13.5 years of their lives to wrongful imprisonment.
read more
KBI agents and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office have positively identified human remains that were found near Garnett, Kansas in April 1973, providing answers to a family after 52 years.
read more
After 26 years, a homicide victim, whose remains were discovered in a remote wooded area near Wilkeson, Washington has been identified as Laurie Krage.
read more
Continued investigation by the MNPD Cold Case Unit into the 1985 murders of two women, discovered on Nov. 7, 1987 in shallow graves in the basement of a home, has now led to a new forensic rendering of one of the victims.
read more
The lab began accepting evidence in March 2025 following an exceptionally rigorous and multi-year preparation and accreditation process.
read more