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

A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after ...

A Texas man has been arrested in a 1986 sexual assault and kidnapping case, Phoenix police said. David Roy Mundt, 61, has ...

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 ...

BCI got involved and DNA was extracted from a bone and entered into a national database called CODIS. Detectives in Oregon investigating missing persons reports from Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina ...

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.

DNA of the suspected killer was recovered at the scene, but it didn’t return any matches in the national CODIS database used to find suspects and missing persons. However, in 2021, police sent ...