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Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: November 21, 2021 at 09:04PM The murder of 9-year-old Candice Rogers rocked Spokane, Wash. On Friday, the police identified John Reigh Hoff as a suspect, and said his daughter helped them solve the case.

Author: BY VIMAL PATEL - Publish Date: November 11, 2021 at 12:24AM Loggers seeking a prized hardwood started the fire in the Olympic National Forest, prosecutors said. The use of timber DNA evidence was a first in a federal criminal trial.

Author: BY MARIA CRAMER - Publish Date: October 30, 2021 at 12:27AM Ernie LaPointe, the great-grandson of the leader Tatanka Iyotake, said he hoped the DNA confirmation would bolster his campaign to move the chief’s remains.

Author: BY JOHNNY DIAZ - Publish Date: October 11, 2021 at 11:40PM Decades after a baby was found by the road, DNA testing led to criminal charges. On Friday, a woman entered an Alford plea in the case, maintaining her innocence while pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Author: BY GRAHAM BOWLEY - Publish Date: September 24, 2021 at 11:48PM DNA evidence found at the two museums after the burglaries led investigators to the suspect, who has now been sentenced to eight years in prison by a Dutch court.

Author: BY COREY KILGANNON - Publish Date: September 7, 2021 at 03:26AM The medical examiner’s office is still working painstakingly to identify 9/11 victims. There are 1,106 victims whose remains have not been found.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: March 27, 2021 at 04:00PM William Heiser Jr. said his father had told him and his sister that their mother, Marie Heiser, had “just packed up her stuff and left.”

Author: BY SARAH BAHR - Publish Date: March 13, 2021 at 07:15AM The animal, which had bitten five people, including two young children, near San Francisco over nearly eight months, was euthanized on Thursday.

Author: BY GINA KOLATA - Publish Date: February 23, 2021 at 06:38AM Two patients in a gene therapy study developed cancer years after treatment. It is not clear whether the therapy was responsible.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: September 12, 2020 at 08:10AM Using DNA evidence, the authorities in Rochester, N.Y., said that they had charged Timothy L. Williams of Melbourne, Fla., with murdering Wendy Jerome on Thanksgiving Day in 1984.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: August 27, 2020 at 07:27AM Prosecutors in Hillsborough County, Fla., said Robert DuBoise, 55, had been wrongfully convicted. On Wednesday, they moved to free him after he spent 37 years behind bars.

Author: BY EDGAR SANDOVAL - Publish Date: February 21, 2020 at 07:44AM The police say they will start expunging some of the 82,000 people in the database who have never been convicted of a crime.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: January 24, 2020 at 06:28AM The authorities say DNA evidence has tied Robert Eugene Koehler, 60, to more than two dozen sexual assaults. A “dungeon in progress” was found under his house, a prosecutor said.

Author: BY NILA BALA - Publish Date: January 3, 2020 at 07:23AM By uploading their children’s genetic information on public websites, parents are forever exposing their personal health data.

Author: BY HEATHER MURPHY AND MIHIR ZAVERI - Publish Date: December 25, 2019 at 06:34AM The tests, from companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry, have become popular holiday gifts, but the military is warning service members of risks to their careers.

Author: HEATHER MURPHY - Publish Date: July 1, 2019 at 07:00AM A new forensic technique sailed through its first test in court, leading to a guilty verdict. But beyond the courtroom, a battle over privacy is intensifying.

Author: GRETCHEN REYNOLDS - Publish Date: May 15, 2019 at 07:00AM A need and desire to be in motion may have been bred into our DNA before we even became humans.

Author: HEATHER MURPHY - Publish Date: May 11, 2019 at 07:00AM What does it actually take to identify a person through genetic genealogy? Wading through infidelities and pornography.

Author: JIM DWYER - Publish Date: May 1, 2019 at 07:00AM Sedley Alley went to his death based on scant evidence and a confession that he said was coerced. His daughter hopes DNA testing will provide answers.

Author: HEATHER MURPHY - Publish Date: April 25, 2019 at 07:00AM The Golden State Killer case was just the start. Hundreds of cold cases are hot again thanks to a new genealogy technique. The price may be everyone’s genetic privacy,