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A DNA sample taken from a rape victim in 2003 had no link to a man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for the attack, a court has heard. Forensic testing for crime scene DNA has improved massively ...

As a family scoured a California beach for seashells four years ago, they stumbled upon something odd. The family found a “long bone sticking out of the sand” on Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County on ...

Due to the warm climate, researchers only managed to extract usable DNA from the remains of one of the men, estimated to have been around 45-years-old, called Menga1.

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent years. Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the ...