RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — 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 ...

Kirsty Wright hated science in school, but her unconventional career path has led her to use DNA profiling in high-profile ...

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 ...

The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases RIVERHEAD, N.Y.