FREEHOLD - The DNA of 8-year-old Sophia Caneiro was found in five locations on a pair of bloody jeans recovered from her ...

Current Massachusetts law bars rape prosecutions in cases older than 15 years, even when there’s a DNA match. The governor wants to change it.

More than seven years after DNA testing freed two men from prison, clearing them in the 1994 slaying of Antwinica Bridgeman, prosecutors have not filed new charges in the case despite a genetic match ...

New York (CNN) — For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, ...

For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key ...

APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. - The Apache Junction Police Department in Arizona says it's closer to identifying a teen found dead nearly three decades ago after teaming up with genetic genealogists who have ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...

A California murder went unsolved for nearly 30 years, until one DNA match cracked the decades-old case. You can also get more behind-the-scenes of each week's episode by listening to "20/20: The ...

A yearlong investigation into a burglary at a Robeson Township convenience store led to charges against a Reading man after DNA evidence linked him to the scene,police said. The break-in occurred in ...

Timothy Thunberg, pastor of Free Methodist Church in Unity, admitted he was alarmed when the caller ID showed an incoming telephone call from state police in Greensburg. “You never know what to expect ...

DNA has led to the arrest of a man who the Collier County Sheriff's Office says broke into a woman's home and sexually battered her at knifepoint more than 21 years ago. "This was a heinous crime, and ...