Ancient DNA from the bones of Grand Duke Francesco de' Medici has solved a 440-year murder mystery, confirming malaria killed ...

Genetic testing provides long-searched for missing link to crime.

It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a potential suspect identified against whom to compare it. A DNA test would ...

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A Utah teenager found dead more than 50 years ago has been named as yet another victim of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Authorities said Wednesday that DNA helped link Bundy to the killing of ...

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After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland ...

A man who got away with rape and murder for nearly four decades will now spend the rest of his life behind bars after investigators used a covert DNA sample, collected with help from the FBI, to ...

Since the mysterious deaths of a husband and wife in the Medici family, a powerful Italian dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany almost uninterruptedly from 1434 to 1737, rumors have swirled about ...