BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD – More than four decades after 59-year-old Samuel Allen was fatally shot in his Liberty Road home, Baltimore County detectives have identified a suspect in the long-unsolved homicide thanks to a breakthrough in DNA technology.

Seeking to stop a rapist, veteran DNA detective CeCe Moore found herself fighting a battle among the trees—family trees, that is. And as a result of her meticulous mystery-solving acumen, Utah can claim the bragging rights as the place where, for the first time, genetic genealogy was employed to solve an active case.

Detectives from FCPD Major Crimes Bureau Cold Case Squad have solved the mystery of a child found deceased in 1972 in Massey Creek, under the Old Colchester Bridge in Lorton. The child has been identified as Carl Matthew Bryant. The identification was made ...

Denver detectives recently connected a Missouri man to a 2004 sexual assault in Denver by secretly swooping in after the suspect's meal and gathering his utensils for DNA testing.

Madison police have made a breakthrough in a sexual assault case dating back to 2013. Nathaniel Stabler, 39, of Madison, was arrested following a recent DNA match in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).