There were no witnesses to the gruesome murder of a South Carolina mother and her 3-year-old daughter inside a busy apartment complex four years ago. But a new technology that can create an image of someone using DNA samples left at crime scenes... Read more
THE NEW NATIONAL DNA database which is expected to become operational this year, according to the Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald. The database will help to solve crimes and trace missing persons, with criminals who receive a sent... Read more
DNA can reveal an extraordinary amount of private information about you, including familial relationships, medical history, predisposition for disease, and possibly even behavioral tendencies and sexual orientation. While DNA testing in a... Read more
A Brooklyn judge has stirred up controversy by tossing out two types of DNA evidence regularly used in criminal cases throughout the city, the Daily News has learned. Justice Mark Dwyer has thrown out the results of low copy number DNA testing,... Read more
Delhi Police is drawing up a plan to conduct DNA tests on people begging on the streets with children, to find out it these kids were their own or had been abducted and trafficked, sources said. The idea was sent to the prime minister’s of... Read more
Police hunting for the killer of a grandmother who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer a year ago, have asked all men in the village where she was killed to give a DNA sample. Artist Valerie Graves, 55, is believed to have been murdered with a... Read more
The UK Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material has published a new report that reveals that the DNA and fingerprint samples belonging to thousands of foreign crime suspects have been deleted from British databases because po... Read more
Via the Innocence Project: On the request of the District Attorney’s Office, a Dallas County judge today entered a court order finding Rickey Dale Wyatt innocent of a rape for which he served nearly 31 years. Working closely with the Dallas Dist... Read more
Since Los Angeles police first announced that they had made an arrest in the hunt for the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, the case involving the slayings of more than 10 women has centered around DNA. Genetic evidence at the crime scenes h... Read more
Nearly eight weeks since they disappeared in the hands of local police and drug gangs in Iguala in Guerrero state, the case of Mexico’s 43 missing students has entered a new stage, one of intense scrutiny of the remains found at several mass gra... Read more