Detectives are closing the investigation into the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith ...

Utah authorities have linked Ted Bundy to Melissa Ann Smith’s 1974 murder through DNA evidence, closing a cold case that ...

With the help of advances in DNA testing technology, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced it has solved three separate cold cases dating back to 2005. HCSO's Cold Case Unit, the ...

Forensic genetic genealogy has solved several old mysteries in New York but many investigations remain open.

More than three decades after Ted Bundy's execution, DNA evidence has linked him to the 1974 murder of Utah teenager Melissa ...

Police say new DNA technology helped solve the 45-year-old murders of Lynn Vest and her 2-year-old nephew, Jeremy Pickens.

The murderer of a 15-year-old girl in a 1978 cold case has finally been sentenced to life in prison — thanks to a piece of gum stuck to the victim’s back for more than 22 years. Mark Stanley ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A newly formed cold case unit within Utah's State Bureau of Investigation has solved its first case, identifying a man whose body remained a mystery for more than 14 years, through ...

A San Bernardino County cold case has finally been solved 40 years after detectives used DNA from a discarded cup to identify a suspect. Leonard Nash, now 72, was convicted in the killing of ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — An arrest has been made in a Florida cold case that went unsolved for more than 14 years. Using DNA technology, detectives with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office cold ...