Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...

Earlier this month, state police in Connecticut held a “DNA drive” in an effort to help identify human remains found in the state. Family members of missing people were invited to submit DNA samples ...

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PHOENIX – DNA samples from gloves that investigators found 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s house in Tucson did not match anything in a national FBI database, authorities announced Tuesday. The gloves ...

(NewsNation) — Immigration authorities are storing DNA from migrant children in an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit future crimes, according to a new report from Wired. The report ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...

LONDON -- Britain bowed to a court ruling and promised Thursday to remove the DNA records of hundreds of thousands of innocent people from its national database of genetic information, but many will ...

A national DNA database is helping to solve new and old crimes in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations manages the CODIS system for law enforcement across our state, allowing police ...

For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reveal that officials knowingly collected the DNA of ...

Around half of the Metropolitan Police’s 33,000 officers could be missing from its own DNA and fingerprint databases ...