(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would allow Utah law enforcement to gain access to third-party DNA information to help find criminals is getting a mixed reception at the State Capitol. Ritchie Englehardt of Ancestry.com testified in opposition to House Bill 340 yesterday. Companies like Ancestry.com oppose the […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says a Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed during the 1970s and 1980s. Bottoms tweeted that city investigators were traveling to Salt Lake City to provide the evidence to a private lab. At least 29 Black […]
A long-haul trucker suspected of breaking into homes and sexually assaulting women has been arrested in connection to several decades-old cases in Utah and Wyoming. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Clearfield Police Chief Kelly Bennett said Thursday that 69-year-old Mark Douglas Burns has been charged in two rape cases in […]
