WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Forensic Laboratory is working to cut down on its backlog of DNA cases. Toward that challenge, securing grant money would help the cause. Sedgwick County ...

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 ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The FBI credited ...

Every living thing has DNA, the blueprint for life. These genetic blueprints separate us as species and, further, as individuals. The human genome — the complete set of DNA found in all humans — is ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (WOIO) - New DNA testing may be happening as soon as this summer on evidence, specifically hair, in the Amy Mihaljevic kidnapping and murder case. It’s been 35 years since ...

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 ...

The novel DNA analysis used by a California laboratory to link alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann to the killings of several women is a "paradigm shift" and "radically different" from ...

It was technically a successful scientific discovery when analysts at the Hennepin County forensic science lab recognized there was a contaminant somewhere in its DNA process. That did not lessen the ...

What if the answer to a decades-old mystery was quietly waiting in a vial of bone, just waiting for science to catch up? That’s exactly what unfolded in the case of Anthony Angelli Rea, whose ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time. A border officer with CITES, the ...