THE WOODLANDS, Texas (KXAN) — On Thursday, the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) held a press conference announcing they had identified the body of a 1979 Jane Doe, the victim in a 44-year-old cold homicide case. “Wish we could stand up here and ...

The Ventura County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative team has now tested 2,038 of the 2,846 inventoried kits. The program has been funded by $5 million in federal grants. The DNA testing has resulted in 329 hits in the federal database of DNA profiles.

Last week, the sheriff revealed that DNA testing done on blood at the scene where she was last confirmed to be seen is hers.

Without advanced DNA testing developed by a Texas lab, Iowa City Police investigators may not have been able to identify an infant found in 1992 in an Iowa City landfill because the DNA tissue sample was “degraded and contaminated.” The advanced ...

ST. PAUL — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears the contamination may be linked to “an ...

(TNS) — As more and more cold cases are solved using forensic genealogy, Connecticut’s forensic lab is offering funding to local police departments that are looking to take a fresh approach to unsolved crimes by testing DNA evidence for familial links.