In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

Police are unable to tell which suspect’s DNA is on the weapon ...

The case has exposed the limits of DNA evidence and raised unsettling questions about how justice can be delivered when suspects are genetically indistinguishable. Identical twin brothers are standing ...

In 2004, Michigan police found that DNA recovered from a crime scene matched that of Jerome Cooper, a notorious criminal. But what seemed like an open-and-shut case got complicated when the cops found ...

A judge on Thursday sentenced a Florida man to 25 years in prison in a 1987 rape and abduction at a Woodbridge gas station -- a case that marked the first time a U.S. court has successfully identified ...