GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

A genetic genealogy expert says one DNA entry narrowed the investigation into David Zimbrick's alleged connections to two ...

All it takes is a single strand of DNA to solve murder cases where the trail went cold decades ago. Genetic genealogy, which compares DNA testing with genetic databases to construct a reverse family ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ever since the Trump administration scaled up DNA collection from migrants in federal ...

It’s a forensics technique that has helped crack several cold cases. Across the country, investigators are analyzing DNA and using basic genealogy to find relatives of potential suspects in the hope ...

Dear Amy: My brother and I are the byproducts of extramarital affairs our mother had between 1943 and 1953, presumably to the same man. For decades we were led to believe that the father who raised us ...

Over about a year in the mid-2000s, four women reported being attacked by a man in the area of Terminal Street in Charlestown. Despite possessing the attacker’s DNA, Boston Police were stumped. More ...

CODIS -- the FBI's Combined DNA Index System, containing genetic evidence gathered from crime scenes and serial offenders -- helps cops nab criminals. Now, a similar DNA database is helping link ...

Earlier this month, state police in Connecticut held a “DNA drive” in an effort to help identify human remains found in the state. Family members of missing people were invited to submit DNA samples ...

Decades after a mutilated body was found in a wooded area in northern Alabama, officials have identified the cold-case victim as a California man through intensive DNA technology and genetic genealogy ...