Mitchell Gaff was nabbed for the murders because of DNA extracted from chewing gum during an undercover police operation.

A Markham police detective pulled a cold case off the shelf and kept digging for years until he found the man now accused of ...

Convicted rapist sentenced in decades-old murders solved using discarded chewing gum - Mitchell Gaff, 68, was apprehended ...

Joseph Foster, who is already serving life sentences for murders committed in 1991, pleaded guilty to the 1992 killing of ...

A “gum ruse” led to a breakthrough in the investigation of two 1980s murders and showed how crucial modern DNA technology is ...

A fugitive from Detroit recently arrested for killing his punk rock singer roommate back in 1993 has been described in news ...

A pair of decades-old murder cases were cracked with an unlikely piece of evidence.

Stephen Bouchard, now 63 and living in Winslow, was arrested Friday and charged with killing Alice Hawkes, who was found dead in the Westbrook apartment they shared in 1987.

The defendant has now been convicted in four homicides that occurred in the same Placer County foothill town.

A Maine man who was arrested in connection with the death of his girlfriend, which happened nearly four decades ago, was ...