The Globe and Mail has obtained a copy of the RCMP's interim policy on Investigative Genetic Genealogy Technology. Other Canadian police forces are developing similar policies around the new science.

More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...

A British man found dead in the United States more than a decade ago has finally been identified thanks to advancements in ...

BRANSON, Mo. (KY3) - A judge sentenced a man convicted in a 1992 brutal attack of two women on a Branson trail. The judge ...

There have been significant improvements in DNA technology that has helped solve active and cold cases. Could those techniques finally provide the evidence to get an indictment and conviction in this ...

All thanks to the latest high-tech cold case investigative tool — forensic genetic genealogy. Forensic genetic genealogy uses DNA analysis and traditional genealogy to help solve crimes ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

Jeffrey Lyndon Hulliger’s body had been in Monterey Bay for 24 years before being discovered, earning him the nickname “The ...

Michael Hill, who died aged 75 in the United States, has become the first British citizen to be identified through the new ...

On July 20, 1990, members of the Madison County Highway Department crew discovered the partially decomposed body of a 30-year ...