All of Indiana serial killer's victims could be identified as renewed investigative push plays out in laboratories
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Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer's property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they?
A new team working to identify the unknown dead says the key to their success will be getting relatives of men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to provide samples of their own DNA.
Those samples can then be screened against DNA profiles scientists are extracting from the remains, which were found starting in 1996 on Herbert Baumeister's sprawling suburban Indianapolis property.
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died, publicist Ken Sunshine confirmed to CBS News. Yarrow was 86.
A drug trafficking investigation in Bogalusa, Louisiana, has led to the arrest of the city's mayor, Tyrin Truong, and several other people, police said Tuesday.
Dubai developer DAMAC Properties will invest at least $20 billion "over a very short period of time" in the U.S., primarily in data centers in the middle of the country, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday, as the company's billionaire founder and CEO, Hussain Sajwani, stood nearby.
McDonald's on Tuesday launched its new McValue platform aimed at luring budget-conscious consumers into its restaurants.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is putting an end to its fact-check program and replacing it with a community-driven system akin to that of Elon Musk's X.
Former President Jimmy Carter's casket is being transferred Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for the next phase of his state funeral.
Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer's property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they?
Security forces clashed with gunmen on Monday in one of Mexico's most violent states, leaving 10 suspected criminals dead and three police officers injured, authorities said.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the counterterrorism chief on the White House National Security Council, Sebastian Gorka, is raising concerns among security experts because of his inability to obtain a security clearance early in Trump's first term.
Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to remove special counsel Jack Smith from his post and either decline to release Smith's upcoming report detailing his investigations into the president-elect or hand over the matter to Trump's incoming administration, according to a letter released Monday.
A 3-year-old boy who died Monday was the fourth person to succumb to injuries from a massive explosion of fireworks on New Year's Eve at a Honolulu home, and a doctor said six others faced long recoveries in Arizona, where they were sent to be treated for severe burns.