Keyword: Crime
DNA genealogy provided a breakthrough in a 20-year-old murder mystery – genealogy not...
A man has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of a brutal double murder from 2005, after police used DNA-based genealogy. The method, which connects...
Released prisoners from Funen 1858-1919: New register for genealogists
Danskernes Historie Online (DHO) has made available a digital edition of a register of 1,500 released prisoners from Funen from the period 1858-1919. The register provides a...
Team of genealogists to assist Swedish police
Swedish police cold case teams are ready to use traditional genealogy alongside advanced DNA technology to solve old unsolved criminal cases. This method...
Genealogy identified rapist from incident in 1983
The rapist behind the brutal murder of Gayla Ann McNeil in 1983 has finally been identified thanks to modern genealogy technology. After...
Do you have a criminal Dane in your family tree?
In Denmark, volunteers have transcribed records from workhouses, prisons, and arrests in Denmark between 1752 and 1933. In total, there are currently over 50,000...
Danish police can now use genetic genealogy in their investigations
In response to public demand, the Danish government has now decided to introduce genetic genealogy as part of the tools available to the police...
Norwegian medieval women were punished like men
Pillory, whipping, breaking on the wheel, torture, or stoning—few people associate medieval punishments with anything positive. But the fact that criminal law affected women and men equally in Norway...
Genealogy helps solve murder mystery in Norway
For several years, genealogy has been used as a method in murder investigations in other countries. Both Sweden and the US have reported breakthroughs in murder investigations...
Criminal profiles are now searchable
The National Archives holds 12,000 photographs of people who were arrested and imprisoned in Norway more than 100 years ago. The collection was published 4.5 years ago and has...
Found 100,000 kroner in the forest
A school class from Feda School found 100,000 in a box buried in the forest, about 400 meters from the old E18 highway. "We're rich, can we hear...".
