The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal ...

The Fort Worth Police Department has cleared its backlog of more than 900 sexual assault kits, uncovered in October through an NBC 5 investigation. There were 898 sexual assault kits that had been ...

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.

The DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and genealogy programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn't happen very often. More than 1.2 ...