CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois State Police leaders were questioned Tuesday about DNA backlogs at state crime labs. Families of murder victims have been waiting for DNA to be processed as potential ...

Suspected 1970s serial killer Bruce Lindahl has been identified as the culprit in a 1979 cold case murder through DNA evidence, Illinois authorities announced Wednesday. In a surprising turn of events ...

Partially dismembered human remains found in 1979 in a Chicago suburb have been identified through DNA and forensic genealogy as those of a man who was 27 when he vanished, authorities said.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Iowa cold case detectives have cracked a 40-year-old murder case using DNA and genetic genealogy, but one question remains: Who killed Lee Rotatori’s alleged killer? In the ...

MORRIS, Ill. — DNA experts have identified the remains of a woman found shot to death in an Illinois ditch almost 50 years ago. The DNA Doe Project said in a news release Thursday that their ...

Human remains discovered in 1974 near a northeastern Illinois creek have been identified through forensic DNA testing as a suburban Chicago man who vanished in the early 1970s, officials said. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Illinois DNA backlog has been eliminated. Chicago Democrat State Senator Patricia Van Pelt said for the first time since 2019, there are no outstanding sexual assault kits older ...