A Lake County judge will decide by Wednesday whether to order further study of the DNA test results in the case of death-row ...

Ex-officer James Duckett had been set to be executed on Tuesday for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl while he was ...

Ancestry lays off 100 employees as DNA test demand dwindles. Ancestry has announced that it had to lay off six percent of its ...

James Duckett was granted a rare stay of execution Thursday ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Tuesday. The state is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row man Rodney Reed, rejecting his latest effort to obtain DNA testing that he argues could prove his innocence.

A man suspected of a San Rafael homicide 60 years ago has been identified thanks to the efforts of two retired police ...

Over 34 years in prison, Shawn Tanner maintained he was not guilty of murder. A legal battle over whether the dead can clear their names will grant his final wish.

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

A family searching for seashells found a bone on a California beach, leading to the identification of Walter Karl Kinney, who ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years ...