Detective Tara Augustin, a longtime member of the Montgomery County Department of Police in Maryland, always wanted to work on cold cases. "Throughout my whole career, my goal was to get to the cold ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — A man serving a federal sentence in West Virginia for bank robbery is awaiting extradition to Florida after detectives there tied him to a 36-year-old rape case through DNA ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as ...

Fred Lee Frampton Jr., 33, pleaded guilty to a 2010 home invasion and shooting. A Maryland man nabbed for murder through DNA and genetic genealogy has pleaded guilty to the crime -- shooting a man ...