A man has been convicted in the 1982 rape and murder of a young girl in Cloverdale, California, after investigators were able to use a cigarette to link him to the crime. "This guilty verdict is a ...
A cigarette butt helped crack a nearly 25-year-old case in Kansas, authorities said this week. On Tuesday, Dec. 30, police in Lawrence, Kan., held a press conference to announce that DNA found on a ...
More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s ...