A DNA profile from the skull found in wall of an Illinois home in 1978 suggested it was a 17-year-old who died during ...

Forty-five years after 17-year-old Kathy Halle was killed in the Illinois village of North Aurora, police have finally ...

An Illinois police department announced it cracked a cold case homicide from the 1970s through DNA testing. It said ...

A skull was found in an Illinois home in the 1970s. Using DNA testing, it's been identified as a teen who died in another ...

Coroners in Kane County, Illinois, have resolved a cold case that lingered for more than 45 years. It involves a skull ...

Authorities have linked a suspected serial killer to the kidnapping and murder of a 19-year-old Illinois woman, more than 45 years after her death.

Similar studies have probed the genetics of Siberian mammoths by studying the DNA in ancient hairs, says integrative evolutionary biologist Alida de Flamingh, also of the University of Illinois ...

The mystery of a human skull found in 1978 in a Batavia, Ill., home has finally been solved after DNA testing confirmed that the skull belonged to an 18-year-old girl from 1866.

By extracting and studying DNA from the hairs ... Malhi, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Illinois, to Nature News’ Emma Marris. It’s still not clear why the lions were ...