DNA links inmate to 12 killings in LA area
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A one-time pizza deliveryman now in prison for rape is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles history
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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Detectives investigating a serial killer look at new evidence which may link him to a murder in 1981.
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A Wyoming prison parolee has been arrested in the 1997 rape and beating death of a University of Colorado senior after he was linked to the case by a DNA match and other evidence, police said Sunday.
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A jail inmate told investigators that a suspect in the killings of four people aboard a charter fishing boat admitted his role in their shooting deaths, but insisted he did not pull the trigger, according to court documents.
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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Members of one of Los Angeles County's most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race
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By Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 1--A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors may test additional items for DNA evidence linked to last year's rape and murders of two women, allegedly at the hands of a Comcast cable repairman.
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Police said Monday they believe a single killer was responsible for the slayings of six people whose bodies were found within a blighted 18-block area frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes.
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A man arrested in Phoenix in connection with a sexual assault may be a suspect in a series of murders there, according to the police.
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A man serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage girl has claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the country dating back more than three decades, authorities said Thursday.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Ten gang members were given  lengthy prison terms for the murders of 12 women in a Mexican  city on the U.S. border where hundreds of women have died in a  mysterious 12-year killing spree, court officials said on  Friday.
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Investigators hunting a serial killer   suspected of eight murders and a string of sexual assaults in   Phoenix have arrested a man for a crime linked to the case,   police said on Thursday.
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DNA testing has linked a Moroccan man jailed in his homeland on terrorism charges to the Madrid train bombings, Spanish and Moroccan judicial sources said Wednesday.
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Police say the Baseline Killer roamed neighborhoods in the Phoenix area for nearly a year, preying on people at random, killing nine and assaulting and robbing others.
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US police in Los Angeles used DNA to link an imprisoned rapist to a dozen homicides and to help free a man wrongly convicted of three of the killings, police said Saturday.
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Two Los Angeles cold case homicide detectives used DNA test results to link an imprisoned rapist to the deaths of at least 12 women between 1987 and 1998, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told reporters Saturday.