A 4-year-old boy who was killed more than 50 years ago has finally been identified thanks to genetic genealogy.

Authorities identified Carl Matthew Bryant as the boy who was found dead by another child in Virginia in 1972.

Police used advanced DNA testing to identify a murdered Pennsylvania boy more than 50 years after his body was found in ...

Carl Bryant's remains were found in a creek decades ago. Genetic genealogy is helping detectives piece together his story.

A 4-year-old boy who was found dead in Lorton, Virginia, more than 50 years ago, and whose name has remained a mystery, has ...

The victim was identified as 4-year-old Carl Matthew Bryant born on May 26, 1968. On Monday at 1 p.m., FCPD held a news ...

The Fairfax Police Department announced it solved a 1972 cold case surrounding the death of a Carl Matthew Bryant, 4, using forensic genealogy ...

Detectives believe his mother and her boyfriend, who had already served time for murder, were involved in the Carl's death.

Long before DNA was used to solve crimes, the original detective on the case kept a sample of the child’s hair.

LORTON, Va. — A mystery that haunted Fairfax County investigators for more than half a century has finally been solved.

Hair saved in a case file and the latest DNA technology led Virginia police to the name of a 4-year-old boy found dead 53 ...

Fairfax County Police Monday identified the remains of a 4-year-old boy whose body was discovered in 1972 in Lorton.His name ...