DNA Leads To Arrest In 2 Cold Case Murders Dating Back Decades
Detectives say a 76-year-old Fairfield man has been arrested in connection to two cold case homicides in Northern California that date back decades ago.
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Detectives say a 76-year-old Fairfield man has been arrested in connection to two cold case homicides in Northern California that date back decades ago.
A John Doe found on the rocks of the Sacramento River deep water shipping canal in Solano County nearly 40 years ago has finally been identified.
Detectives say they still don't know the identity of a woman with severe amnesia who was found in Davis back in May.
More than 18 years later, detectives have identified a woman whose body was found burned inside a dumpster in Sacramento.
When an Oregon medical student was asked to donate sperm in 1989, he was promised that only five offspring would be born -- all on the other side of the country -- according to a lawsuit alleging a clinic violated the agreement by allowing the birth of at least 17 babies, among other alleged violations.
A man who lived in East Sacramento for decades and who was arrested in Georgia Friday will face charges in three violent sexual assaults.
New DNA evidence has determined the woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 was murdered by a man who killed himself in jail a year later after confessing to three other murders in California, investigators said Tuesday.
Authorities have closed the books on two murders from the late 1970s in South Lake Tahoe.
Two brothers have reunited after 70 years, thanks to a DNA test.
Based on the success of identifying the Golden State Killer suspect, the long-range familial search is poised to become a standard investigative tool
If you gave up a saliva swab to find out your ancestry, your genes might now be used in pharmaceutical research.
You probably know where your Social Security card, birth certificate and other sensitive information is being stored, but what about your genetic material?
The defense attorney made a surprising request that the court stop law enforcement from collecting any more DNA or pictures of Joseph DeAngelo's private parts.
Catching the East Area Rapist came down to diligent detective work through the use of DNA samples submitted to genealogical websites.
The shocking revelations came about after the woman's daughter, now 36 years old, took a DNA test and learned that her biological father was a complete stranger.
A proposed ballot initiative attempts to keep prisoners locked up, and get more DNA into state databases.
A man accused of burglarizing a Southern California home took a bathroom break and left DNA evidence in the toilet that led to his arrest, an investigator said Tuesday.
Police departments across the U.S. are amassing DNA databases that critics say skirt stringent laws and regulations that govern the nationwide DNA database and state crime labs.
This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA.
Experts are cautioning the public that a new study claiming to predict sexual orientation has several limitations.
Four months after California voters lowered penalties for certain crimes, state lawmakers and law enforcement officials are lining up with proposals to repeal portions of the new law that they say have created unintended consequences, such as reducing the number of DNA samples taken from suspects.
He's only 17, but he's already making big waves in the science community. A local high school senior was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search. His research on stem cells set him apart from the rest.
A federal appeals court appeared ready last year to strike down as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy a controversial California law requiring police to collect DNA samples from every person arrested in the state.
