The Long Island Gilgo Beach murder case is one of many in recent years when a long-unsolved homicide got a break from an unlikely source: discarded DNA. In the case of the more than a decade-old ...

As this outlet reported, male DNA was “left on the button snap of the knife sheath” ad found on a bed next to the two of the victim's bodies. Law enforcement collected DNA from the trash of ...

The FBI collected trash from the family home of accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger in order to link him to the gruesome quadruple murder, court documents revealed Thursday. The DNA profile recovered ...

The DNA of Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students at an off-campus home in Moscow last fall, is a “statistical match” to DNA collected from the sheath ...

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Experts testified about evidence that allegedly helped link now 71-year-old Michael Sharpe to decades-old DNA samples collected from four cases in the 1980s, testimony presented during the third day ...

Brian Walshe's DNA was found on a Tyvek suit along with several other items, prosecutors said during an arraignment on Wednesday afterWalshe was charged with his wife, Ana Walshe's murder. The husband ...

LAWRENCEVILLE The investigation into the 1998 killing of newborn twins at St. Paul’s College led police this year to search a Henrico County woman’s trash for DNA evidence, according to court papers.