Penny Gunn, above, was identified by Texas DNA lab Othram nearly 27 years after her death in Collin County’s Lake Ray Hubbard. Police are still investigating the cold case homicide. Othram Inc. A ...

Scientists have uncovered microbial DNA preserved in mammoth remains dating back more than one million years, revealing the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recovered. By sequencing nearly ...

THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS SADIE BELL MURRAY. SHE WAS 47 YEARS OLD FROM PENNSYLVANIA AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, A SON AND A DAUGHTER WHO KNEW NOTHING OF THEIR MOTHER OR EACH OTHER UNTIL DETECTIVES ...

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that two cold-case home invasion rapes in the 1980s have been connected to four similar sexual assaults in other states, though the ...

Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV. A judge in the Gilgo Beach ...

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday that hair and DNA evidence connecting alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann to the slayings of six women will be allowed as evidence ...

Long Island prosecutors have the green light to use crucial DNA evidence in their case against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, a judge ruled Wednesday. The bombshell ruling by Judge ...

Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven people over a span of decades. A New York judge on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence that Suffolk County prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer ...

A New York judge will allow prosecutors to present crucial DNA evidence in the upcoming murder trial of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, marking the first time a cutting-edge ...

BAY VILLAGE, Ohio (WOIO) - New DNA testing is underway in the Amy Mihaljevic murder case. Hair, possibly from her killer, is being analyzed right now inside a lab in California. “Every time we send ...

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that evidence was tested may now determine whether prosecutors can use it against their ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence ...