The Long Island Gilgo Beach murder case is one of many in recent years when a long-unsolved homicide got a break from an unlikely source: discarded DNA. In the case of the more than a decade-old ...

As this outlet reported, male DNA was “left on the button snap of the knife sheath” ad found on a bed next to the two of the victim's bodies. Law enforcement collected DNA from the trash of ...

The DNA of Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students at an off-campus home in Moscow last fall, is a “statistical match” to DNA collected from the sheath ...

A DNA sample taken from Bryan Kohberger revealed a near-exact match to the DNA found on a knife sheath at the scene of the quadruple murder in Idaho last November, according to new court documents.

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LAWRENCEVILLE The investigation into the 1998 killing of newborn twins at St. Paul’s College led police this year to search a Henrico County woman’s trash for DNA evidence, according to court papers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A 68-year-old man convicted of killing two women three decades ago, one of whom he raped, will serve a life sentence in prison without parole eligibility for 45 years, a ...