Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theresa Fusco was 16 when she was killed on her way home from her job at a roller skating rink. - Nassau County District ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Crime Lab has access to the national DNA database that helps match samples and identify possible criminals. CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a ...

Nearly all states allow charges to be brought for certain rape cases decades after the crime. But the deadline in Massachusetts is only 15 years, even when police make a DNA match. Member station WBUR ...

DNA testing of the vaginal swab found Kogut and the two other convicted men, Dennis Halstead and John Restivo, weren’t a match. The indictments against all three men were eventually dismissed. In 2014 ...

A Boston woman's rape case fell apart after a DNA match came too late for prosecution, revealing how Massachusetts' 15-year deadline leaves many survivors without justice. WBUR's Willoughby Mariano ...

New York (CNN) — For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, ...