LANSING, Mich.- The men and women from the Michigan State Police’s Biometrics and Identification Division specialize in a wide variety of high-tech fields, from audio and video analysis to ...

GEORGIA - Last week, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Combined DNA Index System recorded its 6,000th state offender hit. CODIS contains DNA profiles from evidence collected in criminal ...

While a Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database was initially imagined as a way to find direct DNA matches to connect crimes or identify specific suspects, it’s being used more often to seek ...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirms they have matched 10 of the state's previously untested rape kits to profiles already in the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, which is the national ...

Examples of cold cases assisted by CODIS, the national DNA database Daniel Brewer was tracked down in New York after a CODIS DNA profile hit connected him to the 1981 rapes of two Manhattan-area ...

CODIS links unknown DNA left during the commission of a crime to offenders who are legally required to provide samples for the database.

Rapid DNA is a proposal to allow law enforcement to quickly search CODIS – the DNA database used for solving crimes – in a matter of hours, opening up more than 20 million samples to ...

CODIS is a nationwide FBI database used to match DNA of known criminal offenders with biological evidence from crime scenes. DPS is the program administrator for CODIS in Texas and processes the ...

The Texas CODIS database was established by the Texas Legislature in 1996. The first cold hit was recorded in 1998, and the number of crimes solved has been increasing ever since.

When John Paul Battle Jr. entered prison in May 2008 on an aggravated assault charge, a sample of his DNA joined more than 186,150 samples in the state’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database.

CODIS is a nationwide FBI database used to match DNA of known criminal offenders with biological evidence from crime scenes. DPS is the program administrator for CODIS in Texas and processes the ...