CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois State Police leaders were questioned Tuesday about DNA backlogs at state crime labs. Families of murder victims have been waiting for DNA to be processed as potential ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Iowa cold case detectives have cracked a 40-year-old murder case using DNA and genetic genealogy, but one question remains: Who killed Lee Rotatori’s alleged killer? In the ...

Human remains discovered in 1974 near a northeastern Illinois creek have been identified through forensic DNA testing as a suburban Chicago man who vanished in the early 1970s, officials said. The ...

An Illinois state's attorney announced that bond was set at $5 million for a man taken into custody in West Chicago last week, whose DNA links him to a sexual assault in 2001. DuPage County State’s ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Illinois DNA backlog has been eliminated. Chicago Democrat State Senator Patricia Van Pelt said for the first time since 2019, there are no outstanding sexual assault kits older ...

Lee Rotatori, left, was found stabbed to death June 25, 1982, in Room 106 of a Best Western in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Through DNA and genetic genealogy, authorities have identified Thomas O. Freeman, ...