Curtis Rogers, the founder of the free DNA website GEDMatch, wanted to do all he could to help police solve a disturbing assault case out of Utah. He knew his website, full of more than 1.2 million ...

SACRAMENTO — The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer — by harnessing genetic ...

Genealogy and security are clashing yet again, this time over the massively crowdsourced DNA database GEDmatch. MIT Technology Review reports that computer science researchers designed targeted ...

Nearly two-thirds of GEDmatch’s users opt out of helping law enforcement. For a brief window this month, that didn’t matter. By Heather Murphy The peculiar matches began early on a Sunday morning.