One tool, known as a John Doe DNA warrant, has made news after a former police chief serving sentences for murder and rape ...

Menlo Park John Doe identified as Brian Edward Jones, who disappeared in 1984, through advanced DNA technology.

The granddaughter told investigators that when “she was a young girl in the early 1980s, Vivian was supposed to pick her up ...

Almost six decades after a woman’s body was found on a cliff in northern California, DNA testing has solved the mystery of her identity. Dorothy Jean Williams’s body was discovered on 18 ...

With the help of DNA testing, the remains were identified as Brian Edward Jones, who was 20 when he was reported missing out ...

Fifty years after a California mother was murdered a breakthrough in DNA has identified her killer - offering long-awaited closure to the daughter she never had the chance to raise. In 1976 ...

DNA technology continues to crack decades-old crime mysteries. In the last 30 days, the company Othram has solved five California cases; three of them are from the Bay Area. Director of case ...

“California has robust privacy laws that allow ... The Attorney General’s Office said customers who requested their saliva sample and DNA be stored by 23andMe can change that preference ...

Monica was cooperative and not a threat to the bank robbers, so investigators don’t understand why she had to be shot,” a ...

convicted of committing a string of California murders in the 1970s and 1980s. Oregon State Police said DNA samples led to ...