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Scene and find unknown dna and they think it's significant, they will put that unknown dna through the codis database to see if there is a hit, a match. if isn't, it remains unknown dna. that's when they take it to the public dna databases, the ones that do allow law enforcement to go there. they run it. if there are any familial hits, and it can be distant relatives, that gives them a working knowledge right there to narrow it down to look and try to find that potential suspect. if they find someone they believe is a credible potential suspect, they then have to get the actual dna from that p...