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With the help of genetic genealogy, detectives are researching the family tree of a murder victim who has been nameless for 55 years.

Almost 14-years ago on November 14, 2007, the deceased body of a woman was found by LaVergne Police in Rutherford County. The body, which has been labeled as Jane Doe, was located in a field off of Hollandale Road in the La Vergne, Tennessee area, close to J. Percy Priest Lake. The unknown woman was believed to have been shot to death and the murder has yet to be solved.  Retired Assistant District Attorney talks about the discovery of the body that was located by LaVergne Police Dete ...

A western Michigan fisherman who went missing in 2000 has been identified through DNA testing on a jaw bone that washed up on a beach 14 years later.

In 1985, a woman was found shot and killed in a field in Newark. To this day, no one knows who she is. Rootless hair DNA and drawings developed from pictures of her skull may provide the leads to help crack the case and ultimately find the killer.

Over 27 years ago, sheriff's deputies discovered the remains of Carl Junior Isaacs, Jr. in rural Rock County.

"I thought, oh my God she looks like I did when I was younger, much younger," the murdered woman's likely half-sister told a local TV station after a DNA test.

Hunters found the body of Carl Junior Isaacs Jr. in November 1995 in a wooded area of town of Bradford near Interstate 43.

A skeleton found in a Rock County wooded area 27 years ago has finally been identified.  Rock County Sheriff Troy Knudson announces Tuesday DNA evidence reveals the remains to be those of Carl Junior Issacs, Jr.  Knudson

Skeletal remains found almost 27 years ago in 1995 in Rock County have now been identified as a 20-year-old Delavan man, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Office.

For nearly 30 years, the identity of "John Clinton Doe" -- the remains of a young man found in a remote wooded area along Turtle Creek in Clinton -- has been a mystery. On Tuesday, authorities were finally able to identify the man as Carl J. Isaacs, Jr.

When Violet Soosay's aunt went missing in 1979, she made a promise to her grandmother that she would find her daughter and bring her home. Decades later, she is finally fulfilling that promise. Shirley Soosay's remains are being flown from California to Alberta on Thursday, arriving at the Edmonton International Airport in the afternoon. "Once that is complete, I know that the weight of the world will be off of my shoulders," Violet Soosay told CBC News. The homecoming marks the end of her famil

Violet Soosay’s search for her missing aunt began four decades ago.

A cold case heats up as DNA experts step in to try to help solve a late-1980s mystery involving a skeleton in a chimney.

Montgomery County teen Tymon Emily, 17, vanished around 1990. A break in the case wouldn't come for three decades, when forensic genealogists got involved.

The attendees of this conference were all firm supporters of the police, but their approval manifested through the worship of detectives and cold case investigators rather than the more obvious flying of a Blue Lives Matter flag.

A family of boaters discovered the baby on Sept. 5, 2011. While they believed they were picking trash from the water, they discovered a baby wrapped inside a tote bag.

Remains found in Allegan County in 2014 have been identified as those belonging to a Muskegon man who went missing in 2000.

After nearly 30 years, California authorities uncovered the identity of Patricia Skiple, an Oregon woman murdered by the "Happy Face Killer."

Investigators have revealed the name of a heretofore unidentified victim of the “Happy Face Killer,” nearly 30 years after her murder.

Patricia Skiple had been known only as “Blue Pacheco” — for the color of her clothing and the location where she was found.

Patricia Skiple, who lived in Colton, Oregon, has been identified as a victim of the so-called "Happy Face Killer," nearly 30 years after Skiple's body was found in California.

GILROY, Calif. (AP) — A victim of the Happy Face Killer has been identified nearly 30 years after her body was left near a California highway, authorities said Monday. Patricia Skiple of Colton, Oregon, had been known only as “Blue Pacheco" for the color of her clothing until genetic genealogy was used to identify her last week, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said.

GILROY, Calif. (AP) — An Oregon woman has been identified as a victim of the Happy Face Killer nearly 30 years after her body was left near a California highway, authorities said Monday. Patricia Skiple of Colton, Oregon, had been known only as "Blue Pacheco" for the color of her clothing until genetic genealogy was used to identify her last week, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said.

Some 29 years after the body of an unknown homicide victim turned up on California State Route 152 in unincorporated Gilroy, the County of Santa...