A DNA test uploaded into a public database in spring 2023 eventually led to the arrest of an 84-year-old man who is accused ...

Wisconsin police have cracked the 65-year-old cold case of a missing Michigan boy thanks to DNA evidence.

He was presumably named Markku at the time of his adoption. During the genealogy investigation, the DNA profile extracted ...

Though Chester Alfred Breiney's adoptive parents admitted to dumping his body, prosecutors lacked the evidence to prove a ...

Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was picked up and stabbed to death. Her ...

Authorities said boy died “traumatically” and as a “direct result of his torture and abuse by his adoptive parents.” ...

The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its impact on Pompeii has been heavily studied by historians and archaeologists over ...

No charges will be filed in the cold case killing the Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office said, as the boy's 7-year-old adoptive ...

After a data breach affected around half of its customers, family ancestry company 23andMe has agreed to a $30 million settlement — and users could be eligible to receive a payout in the future.

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

The familial trend, it turned out, was linked to a genetic mutation. That meant Bill might also be at risk for the disease.

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...