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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Court records show DNA from a tissue left in a trash can led authorities to arrest a former California police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer. The ...

Forensic genealogy has helped investigators track down serial killers, now police are using it to try to identify Nancy ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of being the rapist and killer who terrorized California residents in the 1970s and 1980s has agreed to plead guilty to dozens of crimes in return for being ...

Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested at his Citrus Heights home Tuesday, April 24. The arrest came after DNA linked him to crimes committed by the East Area Rapist / Golden ...

A genetic genealogist who helped unmask the notorious Golden State Killer tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar how the technique could be used to track down Nancy Guthrie’s abductor.

A genetic genealogist who helped unmask the notorious Golden State Killer tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar how the technique could be used to track down Nancy Guthrie’s abductor.

Dozens of women and men who were terrorized by California's 'Golden State Killer' during a sadistic decade-long crime spree finally got their day in court Tuesday as they spoke emotionally of their ...