The detectives’ careful preservation of DNA evidence in 1988 provided a solid foundation for today’s investigators to examine with new technology, Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Nathan Trate ...

John Nicholas Athan, the former Seattle man convicted of murder after he unwittingly gave police a DNA sample by licking an envelope, will be released on parole this year.

Working with DNA evidence, ... Genetic traces from envelopes that contained the serial killer's apocalyptic and police-taunting letters in the 1960s appear to have cleared a school teacher and ...

Athan was given a 10-year minimum sentence. His attorney fought the conviction, saying the police action to gather the crucial DNA evidence was illegal and violated Athan’s state and federal ...

The cold case murder of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania mother in 1988 has been finally solved thanks to DNA evidence found on a ... The letter’s saliva-sealed envelope was tested for DNA, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Working with DNA evidence, San Francisco homicide inspectors believe they have cleared the only person whom police ever named as a suspect in the Zodiac killings that terrorized ...

Investigators in the Zodiac Killer case have submitted evidence to a private DNA lab in the hopes of obtaining a genetic profile of one of California's most elusive criminals — then tracking him ...

DNA on an envelope helped to seal the fate of Steven Ray Hessler, who prosecutors said violently assaulted seven women, a 16-year-old girl and two men in Shelby County, Ind., from 1982 to 1985. By ...

WAUPACA (WLUK) – A state appeals court Tuesday denied Tony Haase’s bid to challenge a judge’s decision to allow DNA evidence at his trial next month for the 1992 murders of Tanna Togstad and ...

The detectives’ careful preservation of DNA evidence in 1988 provided a solid foundation for today’s investigators to examine with new technology, Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Nathan Trate ...