IN A BID to ensure that detection rates for cases do not take a beating, the Mumbai Police have written to the state Home Department recommending that the state-run Forensic Science Laborato... Read more
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has introduced legislation that would help clear the staggering number of untested rape kits in Houston Police storage – some 6,663 at the agency’s last cou... Read more
Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey D. Clark, who were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, will ask the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow DNA testing of the hairs and other evide... Read more
A Virginia law, that allows police to collect your DNA if you are arrested for a violent crime, could be overturned. A Court of Appeals in Maryland has just declared a similar law unconstitu... Read more
There’s an unknown number of evidence kits across the country — all with the key to solving cold cases — that sit untested Read more
Scores of convictions for serious crimes may have to be reviewed after a serious blunder by a leading private forensics firm led to a suspected rapist being acquitted, the Guardian has learn... Read more