A Guatemalan national was arrested on Thursday after an alleged sexual assault in New Haven after DNA evidence seized at the ...

GEORGIA - Last week, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Combined DNA Index System recorded its 6,000th state offender hit. CODIS contains DNA profiles from evidence collected in criminal ...

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MOULTRIE, GA (WALB) - Investigators are able to solve crimes at a much faster rate thanks to a DNA database called Codis. In Georgia, more than 3,500 cases have now been solved, some dating back ...

Sean Patrick McNulty was connected to an unsolved rape case in Columbus in 1997 and at least four home invasions and rapes ...

As the investigation into the murders of four University of Idaho students enters its fourth week, law enforcement is likely now trying to identify the killer through investigative genetic genealogy, ...

MURDER. THE EVIDENCE WAS SITTING THERE FOR DECADES, BUT THE TECHNOLOGY WASN’T THERE TO FIND IT. THAT CHANGED IN 2020 WHEN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY INVESTIGATOR TRS REOPENED A MURDER CASE. AND THIS WEEK A ...

A medical examiner in Texas confirms a homicide victim also has been raped. The DNA evidence is entered into the FBI Laboratory's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and gets a "hit" in another state.

On April 21, 2021, one of the most successful investigative tools available to U.S. law enforcement reached a major milestone: the 20 millionth DNA profile was contributed to the national DNA database ...

It’s generally commonly accepted that if a person is convicted of a serious crime such as murder or rape, their DNA will be collected and saved in a searchable database for future use. Originally, 42 ...

The 27th Annual National CODIS Conference was held virtually on November 15th – 19th, 2021. The conference includes all of the content you have come to expect from previous conferences such as: an ...