16-Year-Old New Jersey Boy’s Remains Identified 40 Years After He Disappeared

A search for unidentified victims of Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy solved a different mystery, halfway across the country in New Jersey

A Ghost of Mississippi: The Willie Manning Capital Case

On the eve of his execution, state officials say there should be no DNA or fingerprint testing for a condemned man who maintains his innocence.

Can you help identify a victim from the 1968 Aer Lingus plane crash?

A DNA BREAKTHROUGH may lead to the identification of a body recovered following the 1968 Air Lingus air disaster in which 61 people died.

Lawyers for Massachusetts man imprisoned for 41 years seek new trial in murder case

Robert Breest had the chance to walk out of prison on parole, after spending nearly half his life there — if he admitted to committing a 1971 murder. But the former Lowell carpenter, now 75, steadfastly refused.

DNA linked to suspect in Harmon murder trial

LAFAYETTE — Evidence expert Carolyn Booker testified Thursday that DNA collected from Christine Dupuis Wood’s body in July 1989 provided overwhelming proof that Daniel Joseph Harmon had sex with her before she was strangled and shot three times in the head.
In his wheelchair, Harmon, 44, listened to testimony Thursday, the third day of his second-degree murder trial. He was 20 and a neighbor of Wood in the Marigny Circle area of the parish, west of Lafayette, when Wood was killed in her bedroom and her body set on fire.

Kan. expects results soon in ‘In Cold Blood’ tests

Topeka — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation expects to have results early next month from tests on DNA from the two men executed for the 1959 murders inspiring Truman Capote’s classic book, “In Cold Blood,” to see whether they are linked to decades-old killings in Florida, a top KBI official said Thursday.

DNA matches victim’s fiance in old Wyoming rape case

CHEYENNE — Additional DNA testing in a 24-year-old Wyoming rape case shows a match to the man who was the victim’s fiance at the time, rather than the man who is in prison serving a life sentence for the crime.

French police take elimination DNA in Alps murder case

GRENOBLE, France — French police are collecting DNA samples of detectives and medical staff who worked on the Alp murder of a British-Iraqi family to exclude their DNA from the case after an expert accidentally contaminated crime-scene material, a prosecutor said Saturday.

California serial killer may be linked to cold cases in Florida

TAMPA – Sam Little’s rap sheet details all sorts of crimes in 24 states spanning more than half a decade.
But, even authorities are stunned the 72-year-old former boxer spent less than 10 years in prison. They said that ends now. DNA just linked him to three cold cases in California. Detectives across the nation are now being asked to take another look at unsolved homicides, including here in Florida

Unidentified man’s DNA is indicted for a 20-year-old rape as “John Doe”

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cuyahoga County grand jury Wednesday — for the first time ever — indicted the DNA profile of an unidentified serial rapist, rather than a named individual.