DNA

A woman born to a severely disabled resident of a New York state facility in 1986 has filed a lawsuit saying her mother was raped by an employee whose abuse was covered up by those in charge.

Fifty-two years after the woman’s remains were found in an Arizona desert, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was able to figure out her name: Colleen Audrey Rice of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Scarlett Doumato, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, R.I., submitted DNA evidence to the police to determine whether or not Santa Claus visited her home on Christmas Eve. This week, she received a response.

Decades-old crimes are being solved using genetic genealogy. Here’s what you need to know.

Remains found a decade ago have been identified as those of a teenage girl who went missing in northeastern Pennsylvania more than a half-century ago, state police said.

A man portrayed by the prosecution as a sexually motivated serial killer was sentenced Monday to two consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole for killing two Southern California women in the 1980s.

A fisherman led investigators to the site of what turned out to be a grisly discovery, reports NBC 7’s Dave Summers.

Authorities have announced an arrest in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old woman in Pennsylvania almost a half-century ago, crediting advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogical research.

Authorities identified a man Friday who they say killed four women in the Denver, Colorado area four decades ago after a technological breakthrough helped solve a series of cold cases that had long eluded investigators.

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