GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Verogen Inc. wants to make tools that have helped solve dozens of cold cases available to crime labs nationwide. The closely-held, San Diego-based forensic-genomics company said this week that it has ...

GEDmatch has helped crack cold cases through users' DNA. The new owners of GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped investigators crack cases using DNA, have vowed to protect users' ...

The new owner of a consumer DNA database that has powered a revolution in forensics vowed to resist attempts by police to circumvent the site's privacy rules. Verogen, a California-based DNA analysis ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A massive security breach forced GEDmatch to shut down its site and exposed the DNA profiles of more than a million people who use the online service to law enforcement ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Saturday marks one year since an off-duty firefighter found a newborn baby floating near the Boynton Beach Inlet. The mystery of Baby June remains unsolved, despite ...

A DNA profile uploaded to a small Florida-based genealogy website was the key tool in capturing East Area Rapist suspect Joseph DeAngelo, a lead investigator on the case said Friday. Paul Holes, a ...

Michael Fields, a detective from the Orlando Police Department, has revealed at a police convention that he secured a warrant to search the full GEDmatch database with over a million users. Legal ...

He murdered 13 people, raped at least 50 women, and committed burglaries all across California during the 1970s and 1980s. He was called the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and ...