Construction workers found William Herman Hietamaki's remains in 2009. Investigators used genetic genealogy to track down ...

The 44-year-old, who worked for the Republican National Committee, vanished after she flew back to the East Coast the day ...

Investigates found these unidentified cases could be a step closer to getting their names back thanks to volunteers and DNA ...

Alternatively, they can compare the DNA with samples from the missing person's parents or siblings to make a match. "The DNA is not being searched in CODIS [Combined DNA Index System], the ...

when a DNA profile was entered into CODIS, a national DNA database that allows law enforcement agencies to compare DNA profiles to identify suspects, link crimes and find missing persons.

or the Combined DNA Index System, a national database of DNA profiles used to solve crimes and identify missing people. In ...

A DNA test uploaded into a public database in spring 2023 eventually led to the arrest of an 84-year-old man who is accused ...

Franklin, a seemingly unassuming grandfather and a former LAPD mechanic and sanitation worker, was finally caught in 2010 ...

A suspect has been charged nearly four decades after Arizona police say a toddler was kidnapped from their home and sexually ...

DNA from a badly decomposed man found in Cheyenne in November 2023 hasn’t so far helped identify him. But the Laramie County ...

Included are the profiles of convicted offenders, profiles developed from evidence in unsolved cases and miscellaneous profiles such as missing persons and unidentified human remains. The CODIS ...

The 28th Annual National CODIS Conference will be held virtually on November 14th – 18th, 2022. The conference includes all of the content you have come to expect from previous conferences such as: an ...