The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases ...

Then, about seven years ago, investigators turned to Astrea Forensics, a California lab using new techniques ... or genome. During court testimony, experts called by the Suffolk County District ...

At the time, extracting viable DNA from such a sample was beyond the capabilities of forensic science, leaving detectives to search ... or genome. During court testimony, experts called by the Suffolk ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- When Maureen Brainard-Barnes' skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island's Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence ...

FILE - Suffolk County Police conduct a search, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, along a beachfront road in Babylon, N.Y., where four bodies were found during a hunt for a missing New Jersey woman. (AP ...

Justice Timothy Mazzei found that the method, which relies on whole genome sequencing and specialized computer software ... to have broad acceptance among experts. Testimony came from leading ...

AI may soon barge into the courtroom. It certainly is sitting in the entry portals. As artificial intelligence uses ...