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Author: BY NORIMITSU ONISHI - Publish Date: December 17, 2021 at 12:00AM The conviction of Omar Raddad in the killing of a socialite in the French Riviera three decades ago will be re-examined after his lawyers presented new DNA evidence they say exonerates him.

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 NORIMITSU ONISHI - Publish Date: November 21, 2021 at 01:15AM The victim was a socialite. A message in her blood accused the gardener. But a grammatical error raised questions of class and language — and whether he was being framed.

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 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 VIVIAN WANG AND JOY DONG - Publish Date: July 15, 2021 at 12:20AM La búsqueda de Guo Gangtang, el padre que recorrió el país en motocicleta, inspiró una película. Ahora, hay un final digno de Hollywood.

Author: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Publish Date: April 9, 2021 at 07:01AM Daniel Isenschmid, a forensic toxicologist, testified on Thursday at the trial of Derek Chauvin that the level of norfentanyl in George Floyd’s system was not consistent with a typical fentanyl overdose.

Author: BY JOHNNY DIAZ - Publish Date: April 6, 2021 at 09:40AM The cold case of Alonzo Brooks, 23, was featured in an episode of the Netflix reboot of “Unsolved Mysteries.”

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 CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN - Publish Date: November 18, 2020 at 08:22AM The Suffolk County district attorney said she was seeking to remove the “huge stain on the legal system” left by Annie Dookhan, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to tampering with evidence.

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 SHEERA FRENKEL - Publish Date: January 23, 2020 at 06:54AM It most likely began with a tiny bit of code that implanted malware, which gave attackers access to Mr. Bezos’ photos and texts.

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: 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,