A man has been charged more than 35 years after a woman was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered in Washtenaw County.

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

Five witnesses have testified in day two of the State v. James F. Wilson jury trial. The victim who was 17 at the time of her 1984 attack testified Tuesday in her alleged assailant's trial.

In the hours after a sexual assault, the survivor’s body is treated as a crime scene ... An FBI database stores the DNA information collected from thousands of kits – and can be used to ...

Texas cold case was solved when David Paul Cady Jr. was indicted for the murder of Mary Moore Searight using DNA evidence matched through the DPS.

The rule change allows local law enforcement officers to test crime scene evidence with what ... this technology doesn’t include rape kits because those have mixed DNA. Those will still ...

A Middle Georgia lawmaker Monday filed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to swab for DNA of people arrested with felony charges before they are actually found guilty. This is ...

A woman who was 17 at the time of her 1984 attack testified Tuesday on the first day of her alleged assailant's trial.

STABBED 22 times and left to decompose in bleached water, the so-called ‘Angel of Mercy’ spared his vulnerable victims no ...

In 2024, the Hawaii Innocence Project hired an expert who used genetic genealogy DNA ... kit, clothes and the ambulance gurney. All the evidence led to Albert Lauro, Jr. who lived near the crime ...