Imagine coming to your next family gathering with new and interesting details about your collective past. AI is now fueling reputable programs that make it considerably easier to research your ...

Becca Stanek is an experienced writer and editor who is passionate about exploring the ways we can feel better mentally and physically to get the most out of our lives. She has worked for publications ...

The 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, infamously known as the Golden State Killer, put genetic genealogy on the map. Investigators created a DNA profile of DeAngelo using crime scene evidence, and ...

The arrest in the Golden State Killer case last April, made with the help of a new forensic field known as genetic genealogy, gave investigators in Snohomish County, Washington, an idea. They were ...

Leslie Penrod Harris, 30, was found strangled to death on May 18, 1976. DNA and genetic genealogy have linked a former Marine to the murder of a young California woman who was strangled to death in ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...

Since the mid-1990s, DNA has been used to identify suspects in nearly 400,000 police investigations. Today, the national criminal database, called CODIS, contains the genetic profiles of more than 13 ...

On April 25th of this year, authorities in Sacramento, California announced, to great fanfare, that they had solved a notorious 40-year-old cold case and arrested a man they say is the Golden State ...

William Talbott II was arrested in 2018 for a Nov. 1987 double murder. In a milestone for forensic criminal investigators, a convicted killer received two life sentences on Wednesday for a 1987 double ...

The practice of genealogy, researching one’s ancestors, has exploded lately. Ancestry.com has become a huge success, boasting millions of subscribers and a net worth well into the billions. Many, if ...

Joseph DeAngelo has plead guilty to the murder of 13 people, the rape of around 50 women and committing burglaries across California during the 1970s and 80s. The so-called ‘Golden State Killer’ was ...