A team of researchers has developed a radical new technique for analyzing evidence in sexual assault cases. The new approach could streamline the forensics pipeline and reduce delays in the processing ...

FILE - Suffolk County Police conduct a search, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, along a beachfront road in Babylon, N.Y., where four bodies were found during a hunt for a missing New Jersey woman. (AP ...

A forensic scientist testified in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday that the scientific methods used to link DNA from degraded hair samples found with the remains of several Gilgo Beach homicide victims ...

A forensic science examiner performs an analysis at the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory. Some state labs face yearslong backlogs across a range of cases, including those requiring DNA and ...

The promise of solving crimes more quickly, efficiently and accurately is coming to the Lowcountry as police cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art DNA testing laboratory that is the first of its kind ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical ...