How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains.

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Vietnam Aches for Its M.I.A.’s. Will America Stop Funding Science to Identify Them?

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades — if the U.S. helps.

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Supreme Court Sides With Death Row Prisoner Seeking DNA Testing

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

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Heat of Air India Crash Hinders DNA Identification, Agonizing Relatives

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

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A DNA Technique is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead

Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.

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36 Deaths in Police Custody Should Have Been Called Homicides, Report Finds

An audit of deaths in Maryland found that in cases of people who died after being restrained by the police, medical examiners often classified the deaths as natural or accidental.

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Peter Sullivan’s Murder Conviction Is Quashed After 38 Years in Jail

Peter Sullivan was found guilty of a brutal killing in 1987. But an appeals court overturned his conviction on Tuesday and ordered his immediate release.

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Police Identify 2 Gilgo Beach Victims, a Mother and Her Toddler

The victims — Tanya Denise Jackson and her daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes — were found on Long Island, near the area where a serial killer operated.

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Autopsies of Slain Gaza Medics Show Some Were Shot in the Head

The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in a March 23 attack on an ambulance and fire truck.

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Insulin Test Used to Convict Lucy Letby of Murder Was Unreliable, Experts Say

A new report by neonatal and toxicology experts casts doubt on the validity of the test results that were pivotal to the prosecution’s case.

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