RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- When Maureen Brainard-Barnes' skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island's Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence ...

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FILE - Suffolk County Police conduct a search, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, along a beachfront road in Babylon, N.Y., where four bodies were found during a hunt for a missing New Jersey woman. (AP ...

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Case a Key Test in Use of Advanced DNA Techniques in Criminal Trials RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside ...

A state judge has decided to allow key DNA evidence in the trial of Rex Heuermann, who is accused of killing seven women and dumping many of their bodies along a remote stretch of Long Island beach.

Erik Menendez was led into a small room inside the Los Angeles County men’s jail in shackles and handcuffs, which were immediately chained down to the table. It was the spring of 1990 and for Dr Ann ...

When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were discovered in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, investigators faced a daunting challenge. Despite the grim ...

KOBE--Records pertaining to a notorious 14-year-old serial killer in Kobe in 1997 were discarded by a family court here in violation of a Supreme Court notice that said such vital documents should be ...