The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases ...

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Marubbio was arrested on June 23, 2023, and released on bond over the objection of the prosecutor by substitute Judge Dennis Smith. Upon conviction, Marubbio’s bond was revoked and he was remanded to ...

Thorough detective work, advanced DNA technology and genetic genealogy analysis led to Marubbio as a suspect decades after the Dec. 19, 1987, attack at a Chevron gas station at 13452 Jefferson Davis ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...

Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

66 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, a position statement by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists clarifies what it tells us about human variation.