Former Sac State lecturer charged in decades-old violent sex crimes  StateHornet.com

A Sacramento State alumnus and former lecturer was charged with three counts of rape from the early ’90s following California’s first ever “placeholder arrest …

Registration Opens July 15  Ohio Wesleyan University

Adults 55 and Older Invited to Sign Up for Fall Classes through Ohio Wesleyan’s New Lifelong Learning Institute. DELAWARE, Ohio – Online registration begins …

Crime Story Investigator: New clue in mystery bones at Ricketts Point  7NEWS

Mystery surrounds human remains found at a popular marine park south of Melbourne, but old-school forensics could identify the victim.

DNA Evidence Leads to Arrest of Man Suspected in 3 Violent Sex Crimes in Sacramento More Than 20 Years Ago  KTLA Los Angeles

For more than two decades, all California authorities knew about the man behind three violent sex crimes was his DNA profile. Two women in Sacramento had …

This popular DNA kit is on sale for the Fourth of July  USA TODAY

If you’re curious to find out more about your heritage, Ancestry can help, and right now, their DNA test kits are on sale for the Fourth of July.

DNA testing unites AL woman with father 48 years after her birth  WKYT

Shannon Privett and her father say ancestry.com brought them together, but it was luck. Neither of them were searching for each other.

How sharing your DNA solves horrible crimes… and stirs a privacy debate  CNET

A technique that closes cold cases is raising questions.

1. Sacramento police, sheriff, and county DA announce arrest in 1990s cold case  ABC10.com KXTV
2. Serial rape suspect linked to decades-old crimes through genealogy, DNA, officials say  NBC News
3. DNA reveals ‘predator’ in ’90s rapes, police say  USA TODAY
4. DNA analysis identifies suspect in series of rapes from early 1990s  Los Angeles Times
5. ‘John Doe DNA’ from 1992 matched to suspect in 3 Northern California rapes  East Bay Times
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Man Guilty Of Brutally Killing High School Sweethearts In 1987, First Ever Convicted With Help Of Genetic Genealogy  Oxygen

William Earl Talbott killed Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg in 1987 and seemingly got away with it, until DNA and genetics linked him to the scene of the …

William Earl Talbott Guilty Of Killing Jay Cook, Tanya Van Cuylenborg, | Crime Time  Oxygen

William Earl Talbott killed Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg in 1987 and seemingly got away with it, until DNA and genetics linked him to the scene of the …