DNA and genealogy websites ― the genetic tools millions now use to connect with relatives or unlock questions about their ancestry — are playing a key role in another way that experts say will happen ...

"I was crying so bad and sobbing that it really bothered him," she said. "He had a gun to my head, and he said he would kill me if I wouldn't stop sobbing." Eventually, he left. That's when Krejci ...

HOWELL, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – A decades-old cold case in Livingston County is now closed. DNA genealogy was the big break for investigators to determine who strangled a Redford Township woman to death ...

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DUNN COUNTY (WQOW) - After a 50-year long investigation, a suspect in the murder of Mary Schlais is arrested and in the Dunn County Jail. Investigators say new DNA testing was critical to the arrest. ...

PROVINCETOWN - Evolving technology helped the FBI solve the longest unidentified homicide victim in the state. She was known as the Lady of the Dunes, now she has been identified as Ruth Marie Terry ...

All it takes is a single strand of DNA to solve murder cases where the trail went cold decades ago. Genetic genealogy, which compares DNA testing with genetic databases to construct a reverse family ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

Fred Lee Frampton Jr., 33, pleaded guilty to a 2010 home invasion and shooting. A Maryland man nabbed for murder through DNA and genetic genealogy has pleaded guilty to the crime -- shooting a man ...

For nearly 58 years, only two people knew who took the life of 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella – the victim and the killer. Both took that knowledge to their graves. State police at Hazleton, however ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed limestone tomb near Beni Hasan, researchers uncovered the remains of a man ...