re: Murder/rape from 28 yrs ago in Starkville solved

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So your saying the DNA pointed to a family in the Rienzi, MS area population 381.

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No, not necessarily.

I will give you a hypothetical example, since I don't know this case.

Let's say I'm investigating a murder in Los Angeles. I plug DNA into these databases and get a hit.

It gives me a name of someone that lives in Michigan and tells me it's a 3rd cousin named Bob Jones.

Now my next step is to dig into Bob Jones family tree. It may be as simple as calling and asking him.

If I can find a 3rd cousin of Bob that has spent any time in Los Angeles then I have a pretty damn good suspect to look at.