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

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

Authorities in Fairfax County, Virginia, say that they have successfully identified the body of Carl Matthew Bryant, whose ...

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 finally been identified.

At the time his death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma, but there were no leads on the case until now, police said.

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.

Police believe Carl Matthew Bryant and a 6-month-old sibling were killed during trip from Philadelphia to Virginia.

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

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

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.