DNA breakthrough helps Broward detectives solve 1987 cold case
Nearly 40 years after an 85-year-old woman was assaulted in Deerfield Beach, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives have linked Gregory Rollison to the crime using advanced DNA technology.
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Nearly 40 years after an 85-year-old woman was assaulted in Deerfield Beach, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives have linked Gregory Rollison to the crime using advanced DNA technology.
Forensic tests helped identify a man whose remains were found inside a sleeping bag in Washington state in 2000.
Local and state officials participated in the honors, marking April 23 as Corporal Joshua Corruth Day.
Mexico City and Guadalajara are preparing to host World Cup games in June, with protesters denouncing the government's failure to properly investigate the disappearances.
The Ford station wagon thought to belong to the Martin family was found in 2024 by a diver who had been looking for it for several years.
U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The USS Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack.
As the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continues in Arizona, investigators are turning to a South Florida forensic lab to analyze key evidence in the case.
A man has been arrested in connection to a sexual battery that took place more than 21 years ago, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
Police said forensic testing and genetic genealogy identified Kenneth Smith as the person who killed two women in the 1980s and a third woman in the 1990s.
James D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has died at 97 years old.
DNA evidence led to the arrest of a 63-year-old man in the 2009 rape of a Pompano Beach mother attacked at gunpoint while her children slept, investigators said.
Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female dominance.
Advanced DNA testing helped police in Clearwater, Florida, identify Edman Eric Gleedy as the man whose remains were first discovered 31 years ago.
Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create three dire wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi.
Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.
The babies - one born on Feb. 14 and the other on Feb. 15, 1965 - are now 59-year-old women and they are filing a lawsuit.
The body was identified as that of a woman who had never been reported missing.
Police used forensic genetic genealogy and family tree research to solve the cold case.
The remains of a man found murdered in Florida in 1980 have been identified as William Irving Monroe III, a U.S. Marine who served in Vietnam.
Hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez' son from her arms right after birth in 1981 and later told her he had died.
Jeana Burrus' whereabouts had not been questioned in the 16 years since the remains were found, a Florida sheriff's office said.
An attorney for the man accused of gunning down rising rap star XXXTentacion during a 2018 robbery outside a South Florida motorcycle shop told a jury Wednesday that DNA evidence proves his client and another man are innocent.
It is among Florida's oldest unsolved crimes on record, notorious for its brutality, as well as for a pool of suspects that numbered over 600.
Research shows a father and his teenage daughter lived together in Siberia more than 50,000 years ago.
