An amateur DNA detective helps people find family they never knew After years of searching for her birth parents, Laura Flanagan has become a go-to person for others looking for lost relatives.

Bradley Marchant is Indiana State Police's forensic investigative genetic genealogist and he's already making a difference.

When consumers use DNA sites like 23andMe and Ancestry.com, they can take their results and upload them to a broader database called GEDmatch in the hope of finding more relatives.

Mesquite police are crediting DNA evidence and the determination of its lead investigator with the recent arrest of a man they say beat and raped a disabled woman in 2014.

Detective Lindsey Wade has learned the value of grit during her investigations of killers and sex offenders. She has some good advice.

A DNA report casts doubt on the entire JonBenét Ramsey case. This detective says it could help solve her murder A Colorado sheriff watched his best friend, Lou Smit, dedicate his life to solving ...

A police department was surprised when they received a package shortly after Christmas with a note inside from a 10-year-old aspiring detective.

But I don’t think she imagined you’d be able to do a postal DNA kit 25 years later! “I knew I wanted to find my real father, but didn't know where to begin.

Finding criminals was likely the last thing on the mind of the 30 million people who use genealogy websites. They freely provided their DNA, usually with the benign goal of tracing their ancestry.

California detectives were looking for help in a cold case that has developed a lead through DNA, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said.

Roxanne Wood's murder in 1987 went cold for more than three decades before a genetic genealogist made a breakthrough.