Thanks to DNA sleuths, a Jane Doe killed 37 years ago might finally get a headstone with her name on it  WGNO New Orleans

RENO, Nev. – For 37 years the woman’s remains have been in a lonely, nameless grave at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery in Reno, Nevada.

Police use of DNA leads to backlash, changes to big database  ABC News

After California detectives used a popular online DNA database to track down a suspect in the decades-old Golden State Killer slayings, other police agencies …

A serial killer ‘tried to erase his victims.’ But three bodies hidden in barrels have now been identified.  The Washington Post

With the help of the victims’ family and friends, DNA testing, genetic genealogy, and a librarian interested in missing persons cases, New Hampshire officials …

Privacy concerns don’t stop people from putting their DNA on the internet to help solve crimes  The Conversation – US

Despite privacy concerns over police use of DNA uploaded to ancestry websites, many people are just excited that their genetic material could get a killer off the …

Former Marine arrested in 1976 California slaying following DNA hit through genealogy site  WSB Atlanta

A former U.S. Marine whose DNA ties him to a 1976 homicide near a California military base was arrested last month in Louisiana after he was tracked down …

DNA, genealogy leads to arrest of Wisconsin 82-year-old in 1976 rape, double homicide  KIRO Seattle

An elderly Wisconsin widower has been arrested and charged in a 43-year-old rape and double homicide that police say was solved through genetic genealogy …

Genetic genealogy links former Marine to young woman’s murder in 1976  ABC News

DNA and genetic genealogy have linked a former Marine to the murder of a young California woman who was strangled to death in 1976, according to …

The Genealogy Site That Helped Catch the Golden State Killer Is Grappling With Privacy  Slate

Since April 2018, when police announced they had apprehended Joseph DeAngelo, the man they alleged to be the long-elusive Golden State Killer, the …

How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years  The New York Times

What does it actually take to identify a person through genetic genealogy? Wading through infidelities and pornography.

DNA Detectives: Scientists combining forensics with genealogy break ‘unsolvable’ cases  FOX 8 Live WVUE

(InvestigateTV) – Thanks to a breakthrough in how DNA is used, more than 1,000 collective years worth of cold cases across the U.S. have been solved in just …