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 ...

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 ...

Leslie Penrod Harris, 30, was found strangled to death on May 18, 1976. DNA and genetic genealogy have linked a former Marine to the murder of a young California woman who was strangled to death in ...

Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The FBI credited ...

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 ...

The political and social landscape in the United States is no stranger to unexpected claims involving public figures. However ...

For the first time, prosecutors in the University of Idaho student homicides case have acknowledged that investigators employed an advanced DNA technique more commonly used in cold cases to land on ...

DNA Doe Project seeks to identify "Little Lost Seabrook Doe" using genetic genealogy and public DNA database uploads.

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After California detectives used a popular online DNA database to track down a suspect in the decades-old Golden State Killer slayings, other police agencies quickly ...

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

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 ...