A New Jersey man has been arrested after Pennsylvania investigators allegedly linked him to a 2012 fatal shooting using recent advancements in DNA forensics, as well as a Styrofoam cup found at the ...

Over four decades after a teenager was murdered, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s house in Cloverdale, ...

A man has been convicted in the 1982 rape and murder of a young girl in Cloverdale, California, after investigators were able to use a cigarette to link him to the crime. James Oliver Unick, 64, was ...