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TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

When a homicide detective in California’s Central Valley last year reopened the investigation into the unsolved killing of a bakery owner, she turned to an increasingly popular forensic tool credited ...

Genetic genealogy – the forensic tool behind hundreds of long‑stalled case breakthroughs, including the 2016 slaying of a New Jersey man found shot and dumped on a Brandywine Hundred neighborhood ...

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Federal and local authorities will use genetic genealogy to analyze DNA found at Nancy Guthrie’s home as the ongoing investigation into her possible abduction stretches into its third week. The ...

Investigators in Arizona are hoping that DNA found in and around Nancy Guthrie's house in Tucson could lead them to a suspect — and the missing woman. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show ...

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A member of the FBI's Evidence Response Ream searches an area around Nancy Guthrie's residence in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11. Police say that DNA samples have been recovered in and around Guthrie's ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...

An expert on genetic genealogy has said that DNA collected from Nancy Guthrie’s property will help law enforcement find the person responsible for the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of Today ...

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