Elimination databases are used to exclude police officers’ DNA or fingerprints from crime scene samples, helping to prevent contamination from being mistaken for a suspect’s profile. However, the ...
Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...
Australians looking to learn more about their heritage by sending DNA samples to commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve long-dormant cold cases. The use of Forensic Investigative ...