Forensic genealogy has helped investigators track down serial killers, now police are using it to try to identify Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper. The post Forensic genealogy helped catch killers. Can it ...

Two witnesses were called to the stand on Friday during the fifth day of the Tara Baker trial to testify as experts in the ...

Researchers find long-term exposure to mining pollution is associated with significant cognitive impairment in Peruvian ...

A bill in the Oregon legislature seeking to overturn wrongful convictions based on discredited science, is heading to the ...

The SSS agent explained how his team tracked down one the defendants in the Owo massacre trial through the suspect's phone.The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday heard more details of how a ...

A new peer-reviewed paper on Kurt Cobain’s death leads researchers to believe that he didn’t die of s**cide but was murdered.

A new synthetic opioid has now been linked to 16 deaths in East Tennessee, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center announced Thursday morning.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI senior profiler and professor of forensic science, about the latest in the Nancy Guthrie abduction case.

No other credible source has reached the same conclusion. The Seattle Police Department says its investigation into Cobain's death remains closed.

James Oliver Unick, 64, was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Sarah Geer with a special circumstance related to the sexual assault on Friday. He will be sentenced to life without the possibility of ...

Kirsty Wright hated science in school, but her unconventional career path has led her to use DNA profiling in high-profile criminal cases.

Evidence that could solve murders, convict drug dealers and close cold cases first has to make it through South Carolina’s forensic laboratory.