The police in his books are definitely the good guys, despite a trend for corrupt fictional detectives. |
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Both revealed systematic malpractice, and led to the imprisonment of several senior detectives. |
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A major manhunt was launched and detectives made numerous appeals in a bid to catch the culprit. |
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I'm a Scot by birth living in Australia and writing about London detectives. |
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Forensic teams were yesterday scouring the area for clues, while detectives conducted house to house interviews. |
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The former member of her boyfriend's legal team was taken to a police station in the Manchester area and questioned by detectives. |
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Many senior detectives had been fearful the self-confessed drugs dealer was somehow going to thwart justice. |
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As part of the operation, 11 detectives used a battering ram to smash down the front door of the Keswick Street house at 7.30 am. |
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The measures were taken after South Yorkshire detectives received a tip-off that Nelson was in danger. |
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He claimed another criminal who ran a cannabis farm with Taylor was behind the killing, but that detectives manipulated evidence to frame him. |
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Skelton said the two suspects were seen running across a service road on the mountain by two plain clothes West Vancouver police detectives. |
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More than two decades before, a torrent of information had overwhelmed detectives hunting the Yorkshire Ripper. |
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Once, when detectives raided the house, nearby residents moved quickly to protect the girls. |
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There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind. |
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Although detectives were aware that the shopworker was in immediate danger, they did not know why he was being targeted. |
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But detectives said it was too early to speculate on the man's identity and were also checking all other missing people reports. |
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All I could see when I went out into my garden were Garda cars and around 10 guards and detectives around the field. |
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The officer recalled a surveillance operation when detectives monitored them in a house in the Carndonagh area. |
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Harry and his fellow detectives faced communist and terrorist groups, as well as common kidnappers and blackmailers. |
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We are not the bloodthirsty killers the detectives would lead you to believe. |
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Richardson said that detectives were keeping an open mind about the possible motive for the triple murder. |
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Details were released as detectives confirmed they now believe there was a sexual motive behind the girl's kidnap and murder. |
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Although detectives mounted checkpoints on roads around Lismore within minutes of the alarm being raised, the gang is still at large. |
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Hopefully the boys in blue and the plainclothes detectives will get things more under control. |
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A motive for any attack is unclear but detectives are looking into both Mr Guilfoyle's private and business lives. |
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When you hear that detectives are mulling an interview with the prime minister himself, you know it's big. |
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In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry. |
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Civilian sleuths are being sought by Essex Police to work alongside detectives in major investigations. |
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With detectives hot on his trail and his daughter coming unglued, he tries to stay calm. |
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As detectives searched for clues, the bank expressed relief that its employees targeted appeared to be unhurt. |
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York men seeking a sexual thrill could be risking serious illness or even death by using unprescribed pills, detectives warned today. |
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A single strand of hair recovered from the victim's clothes managed to snare him and detectives arrested him at his home. |
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American detectives need snitches, sidearms, and sports cars to catch bad guys. |
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The former husband emerged as the most promising suspect after the detectives were able to break his alibi. |
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No one was in the premises when police broke the door down, and detectives were today making further inquiries. |
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At Bangui police station, a number of detectives specialize in rooting out sorcery. |
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But detectives revealed he had broken into a 78-year-old woman's home in south-east London in the early hours of last Saturday. |
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Evans will meet SFO detectives early next month in the hope that the whole business can be cleared up quickly. |
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Today detectives were shifting through information volunteered from the public following a witness appeal. |
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I remember detectives drinking like fish at the bar and then getting called out to an armed incident and it was all on for young and old. |
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Greater Manchester Police have put a team of detectives on the case and are appealing for witnesses to come forward. |
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For the detectives on the case though, there will be no celebration at today's conviction. |
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Firefighters alerted police and the fire was out before detectives arrived. |
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Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives. |
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During the high season, detectives in city Garda stations pose as tourists to try and catch would-be thieves in the act. |
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The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie. |
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Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives. |
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Private detectives could be hired to help win the fight against fly-tippers in Tendring. |
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Murder detectives have stepped up the hunt for the gunman who executed a man in broad daylight in a gangland hit. |
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Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable. |
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Shortly after 6 o'clock, according to the detectives, he called at the Grand Central checkroom for the suitcase. |
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Queensland detectives want to question controversial author Norma Khouri over her claims a Jordanian woman was a victim of an honour killing. |
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A murder suspect being watched by detectives hot-wired the machine as officers were chatting, a national newspaper reported. |
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At a search of his home address detectives recovered a red Swiss army knife, which was similar to the knife used in the attack. |
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In their hunt, detectives searched more than 350 sites, including 40 under water. |
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British detectives are liaising with counterparts in France in the hunt for the men. |
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Frustrated detectives are turning their hunt for an expert gang of jewel thieves closer to home. |
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Eastern Division detectives yesterday intensified the hunt for a woman in her mid-20s, who is believed to be part of an extortion ring. |
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The image came out as detectives stepped up their hunt for the teenager because they fear he may strike again. |
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In addition to liaising with the Coast Guard for coastal patrols, detectives are also monitoring known access routes used by traffickers. |
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A closed sign was put up in the front door of the bakery and detectives spoke to staff. |
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A team of detectives are trying to piece together clues to find a man who subjected a woman to a terrifying attack in the town centre. |
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Three judges found that the detectives repeatedly lied under oath and the court found that they had perjured themselves. |
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More than 200 people called a police incident room, and the names of 130 men were given to detectives. |
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The incident room at Richmond Police Station has 30 detectives and other officers working full-time on the case. |
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But detectives said they were not going to pick him up as he was not wanted in relation to any charges or criminal investigations. |
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There was a concerted attempt by detectives to get answers that would lead inexorably to their preferred conclusion. |
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Mr Wheeler spent two months behind bars before detectives discovered she had concocted the story. |
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At the height of the investigation more than 80 detectives were involved in inquiries. |
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Many of the detectives who made inquiries in the early days of the investigation have been re-interviewed. |
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Efforts to trace him have so far failed despite an appeal and continued inquiries by detectives at taxi firms around the town. |
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So the incident was covered up until a few local veteran detectives found out about it and decided to act. |
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Luckily, the 16-year-old culprit left behind a fingerprint and detectives were able to trace him. |
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He said that during four interviews with detectives, police had produced no evidence of that he was involved in the break-in. |
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Many times on high profile trauma cases, police detectives would inventory the evidence with a nurse to ensure chain of evidence was intact. |
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She was flanked on either side by detectives who have played a central role in the case. |
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The man was cooperating with detectives and was expected to appear in court on Wednesday. |
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Dressed in floor-length robes and his head draped in cloth, Mutwa offered the detectives a disturbing interpretation of the boy's murder. |
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He watched as his partner joked and laughed with the other detectives, then supervised as forensics gathered evidence. |
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As detectives closed in during an undercover operation, he crashed his car into a police vehicle. |
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In the 1940s and 1950s, she built stunningly detailed dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases to train detectives to assess visual evidence. |
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They spend the next 10 hours processing the crime scene, finding clues to help detectives piece together what happened. |
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The work is much like that of police detectives who analyze evidence to reconstruct what really happened at a crime scene. |
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The 41-year-old man, from Yeadon, Leeds, has been questioned by detectives with West Yorkshire Police's fraud squad. |
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Finally, of course, most of us don't have to worry about being investigated by private detectives. |
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Local councils are apparently not above hiring private detectives to keep tabs on the coming and goings of certain gentleman's clubs. |
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He had never been in trouble with the police and detectives believe he was the victim of mistaken identity. |
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The two men were taken to the police station for questioning by detectives. |
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Police patrols were boosted as detectives warned that the man could strike again. |
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An initial post-mortem failed to establish a cause of death and detectives started an investigation. |
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A surveillance unit of detectives follow her every move and are ready to pounce when the alarm sounds. |
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A police spokesman said detectives are trying to establish the cause of death. |
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One person detectives are particularly anxious to speak to is a woman who phoned a few days after the assault. |
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He is still at large and detectives are investigating a possible link with an attack just two days earlier. |
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Eight of the suspects were today being quizzed by detectives at undisclosed police stations. |
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The bravery of one of his victims enabled vice-squad detectives to bring him to court. |
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He said within minutes an ambulance, police vans and detectives had turned up. |
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Strathclyde Police last night confirmed that detectives had investigated the matter. |
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The investigating detectives reviewed the color surveillance video at the dealership. |
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Even the two detectives who led the investigation are divided over how much Carr knew. |
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A police spokesman appealed for people with information to contact detectives. |
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Officers are doing extra patrols in town and detectives have made a new appeal for women not to go out alone. |
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Both were released after being questioned by detectives and remain on police bail. |
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If the detectives are of differing abilities it devolves into a situation where one player is deciding the best move for everybody else. |
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Horrocks gave himself up to police after his family recognised him from an e-fit image the girls had given detectives. |
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The company hired detectives to follow him and dig up dirt in an effort to discredit him. |
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He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement. |
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A woman who alleged she was abducted and raped is no longer helping detectives investigating the attack. |
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A gang of thugs who lay in wait before attacking a man with a baseball bat and an iron bar could strike again, say detectives. |
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But their plan was foiled by detectives who were sitting in wait near the Swissport cargo warehouse on May 17 last year. |
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Only one man Robert Morris, 49, has been charged because detectives hit a wall of silence. |
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Throughout detectives have been struck by the lack of remorse shown by the accused. |
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The detectives were acting on a tip-off from a thief who had broken into Mr Morrison's house only days earlier. |
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The lives of fictional private detectives tend to be action-packed, dangerous and full of incident. |
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In China, private detectives are not allowed to testify in court, and tape-recorded evidence is not admissible. |
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Details were released as detectives confirmed they now believed there was a sexual motive behind Hannah's kidnap and murder. |
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Forensic teams had searched the field for clues, and detectives staged a reconstruction there of Sarah's last known movements. |
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Last night she was still recovering in hospital, and too ill to speak to detectives. |
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Murder squad detectives have been drafted in after a body was found partly buried in woodlands by a man walking his dog. |
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The image of anxious and world-weary detectives puffing frantically on cigarettes outside interview rooms may still be a hallmark of TV drama. |
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A drug dealer who sold wraps of heroin to undercover detectives has been jailed for three years. |
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The Revenue investigators act more like private detectives than civil servants. |
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They're forced to prove their competence as detectives and their reliability and dedication to each other. |
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Bryan had expected to be relieved of duty the second the detectives had heard the witness's statement. |
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Three men were being questioned by detectives today after a gun and ammunition were found dumped in bushes. |
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The Herald carried on its front page one of the suspects being led in handcuffs by detectives from his home. |
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But detectives said most of these leads had been followed up without any sign of a breakthrough in the case. |
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At the same time detectives will be liaising with York police for any intelligence they can offer. |
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Would you approach a society you knew to worship angst ridden doctors, corrupt lawyers and various subgenuses of surly private detectives? |
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The police detectives at the scene quickly realised there was a serial killer on the loose. |
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Homicide detectives follow some pretty straightforward rules in murder investigations. |
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It is something of a myth that detectives solve crimes by assiduous collection of evidence. |
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Initially the death was treated as suspicious with detectives sealing off the area with tape after finding a rear kitchen window forced. |
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Equally adept at comedy and drama, Cranham has played bumbling detectives, passionate army dentists and good-hearted pastors with equal proficiency. |
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Upon his arrest, the actor admitted to detectives that he had been using heroin and methadone. |
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The drama has been heavily trailered on the main channels, focusing on the shocking behaviour of one of the younger detectives, but there is more to it than that. |
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When detectives raided her store and found the silk in her possession, they arrested her. |
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City detectives afterward seized two file cabinets from the Brooklyn apartment of a prime suspect. |
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A decade later, detectives in that same school cut away the bloodied edges on the projects of other children. |
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The detectives detained Chen and went inside to discover a home that had been turned to a slaughterhouse with a meat cleaver. |
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They watched, enrapt, as two videos of the accused being interviewed by detectives while in custody was shown to the jury of seven women and five men for the first time. |
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State officials are now investigating those private detectives. |
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Perhaps Americans are used to their private detectives being of sounder moral character. |
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Generalisations of doubtful validity still hold the field in many instances, crying out for a new generation of detectives, scholars, and writers. |
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The detectives transported the evidence to their squad room and stepped out for dinner. |
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There are no formal education requirements for most guards, private detective and investigative jobs, although many private detectives have a college degree. |
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But he also managed to endear himself to the buttoned-up Kansans, the detectives and especially the two men who were eventually executed for the murders. |
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Sympathetic magic is the basis for psychometry, the claim of psychic detectives that touching an item belonging to a victim gives magical contact with the victim. |
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And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator. |
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It had been a headline case, and a task force of over a hundred detectives had been assigned to investigate. |
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The possibility also exists that the interrogative techniques used by detectives may have improperly influenced Jeffrey's recollection of the events. |
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As detectives began closing in on Viens, he attempted to commit suicide by diving feet first off a rancho Palos Verdes cliff. |
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The detectives located and spoke to one person whom Brinsley had asked to help him upload something. |
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However you felt about it, you had to admire the skill and resourcefulness of the detectives. |
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Small towns are full of druggers, hiding from the detectives in cities. |
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The other detectives had to restrain her to keep her from striking him again. |
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Rebus, though, is a good deal more than an identikit clone of the hard-boiled detectives whose stock has little varied or improved since Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. |
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He reportedly has continued to refuse even to speak with detectives since he was brought back to Charlottesville. |
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In the end, the detectives are left with fragments of paint, scraps of scarlet borders, shady underdrawings, no firm solution to their puzzles about authorship. |
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He noted in his address that both his mother and his father are retired NYPD detectives. |
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When you think about forensic evidence, you probably imagine detectives looking for droplets of blood, traces of fingerprints or imprints of shoes. |
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A disabled man was today being hunted by detectives after he failed to appear in court to be sentenced for slashing a have-a-go hero with a cut-throat razor. |
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The show centers on two detectives with contrasting world views who must clean up the streets of Battle Creek, Mich. |
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By 10 am, a source at the Ministry of National Security was saying that detectives had recovered a mysterious black box in a garbage bin on the promenade. |
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The actress teamed up with detectives hunting the killer they believe claimed the life of an Asian teenager who turned down her suitor for an arranged marriage. |
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On the night of the attack, detectives interviewed Claudia Haro, but she denied any involvement and provided them with an alibi. |
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They came to grief after detectives, posing as punters and using hidden cameras to catch the culprits red-handed, set up nine bogus deals with gang members. |
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It is believed detectives were called to the home by a member of staff. |
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Both detectives soon come to blows over how to handle the case, each totally convinced of their superiority over the other until the killer strikes again, and again. |
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However, western detectives flatly dismissed reports that Government's airship, the blimp, and other sophisticated radar technology were responsible for the seizure. |
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One raider who forced his way in through the front door of a nearby house was founding hiding in an upstairs bedroom during a follow-up search of the area by detectives. |
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A large number of detectives were involved, with long and distinguished records, from three different squads. |
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The detectives are still at it, seeking to account for a period of time when Brinsley may well have paused to sit somewhere. |
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A taxi driver told detectives he followed the motorist, driving a metallic dark green four-door saloon car, for around six or seven minutes until it turned down a side road. |
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Is not the admiration of people of all ages for our Tarzans, Supermen, Lone Rangers and indestructible detectives the result of a love for romanticism? |
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The British detectives have since interviewed countless witnesses and cleared a number of dubious suspects in the case. |
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In that investigation detectives arrested eight suspects across southern England and seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertiliser used in many bomb attacks. |
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The smaller objects are taken to a row of tents where they are decontaminated and picked over by detectives wearing protective suits and respirators. |
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Jackson volunteered this information to detectives, just before the trial, in the mistaken belief that it would help Wise. |
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They include several police detectives, a casino pit boss, a nurse and a former state representative who ran unsuccessfully for a Michigan senate seat. |
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We had to wait, let's remember, four months before these people finally came in and answered some of the most basic and elementary questions to police detectives. |
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This trend is about to produce some even more startling attempts to either resurrect the great TV detectives of the past or to revive interest in some long-running shows. |
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Today Southampton detectives appealed for the public's help in catching the burglar, who was white, aged 15 or 16 with fair hair and wore a grey anorak or fleece jacket. |
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However, detectives said they are keeping an open mind as there was no sign of forced entry and they were not sure if the theft was planned or opportunist. |
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When not covering specific cases, the team of six officers act as police liaisons with both the hip-hop world and detectives covering a similar beat in California and Florida. |
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He handed over his fare card so detectives could determine exactly when he had entered the subway system. |
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Peggy took her place at the window back inside the recovery room and watched as the detectives took their pictures, and outlined the body with white chalk. |
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Last night detectives, deeply concerned at the level of violence used in each attack, issued an urgent appeal for help in catching the man before he strikes again. |
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When instructors are not acting as proctors or detectives hoping to stifle cheating or ferret out dishonest students, some are dreaming up schemes of their own. |
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The detectives learned early on that Brinsley had arrived by bus in Manhattan. |
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The operatives are not above using private detectives and bankrolled bloggers to engage in blackmail and scandal-mongering. |
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They are now working together as private detectives trying to clear the name of a handyman accused of stealing secret documents from the home of a rich family. |
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Moschella said while detectives do not believe Simon was the triggerman, he did coordinate the shooting. |
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A MAN who died at an old people's home is to be exhumed for a full post mortem as detectives study claims that residents were forcibly fed. |
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The detectives were trying to identify the big enchilada who controlled the entire criminal network. |
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One of his shirt cuffs... bore a laundry mark, and the detectives finally located the laundry in this city. |
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A team of private detectives had directed Queensberry's lawyers, led by Edward Carson QC, to the world of the Victorian underground. |
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The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives. |
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Gregory is one of the more competent police detectives Holmes works with in the course of his career. |
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Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy? |
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She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in. |
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Dawari asked detectives and judicial staff to punish adulterators to curb malpractices. |
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Scottish Parliament bosses have called in detectives after cash from a Tory whip-round was stolen. |
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Aston's attacks were finally halted when detectives found him holding 92-year-old William Doorman in a wristlock on March 31 last year. |
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It's up to the detectives to locate the common denominator between these strangers, before someone is shot again. |
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The dimwitted tourist also helped detectives by scrawling what appears to be his own name on a stone at Skara Brae, Orkney. |
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Currently, most detectives assigned to the homicide, robbery, auto theft and other bureaus work banker's hours. |
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Homicide detectives arrested Simon, 24, of pompano Beach Tuesday night. |
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Private detectives and bounty hunters flooded the region, ironically provoking more violence, which in turn led to more negative publicity. |
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Philip Brachman, an Emory University public health specialist who for many years headed the CDC's disease detectives program. |
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Such was the rivalry between the Outlaws and the Hells Angels that detectives did not have to cast their net far to draw up a list of suspects. |
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Without Mirandizing her, detectives questioned her for about half an hour with Diante in her lap. |
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It's about two Boston detectives working a missing child case where the good guys and baddies are hard to tell apart. |
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A LIVERPOOL MP has called for a crack new team of detectives to prevent a repeat of the horsemeat scandal. |
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Sheriff's detectives said Rowen had advertised since 1996 for a housesitter, a part-time helper or someone to rent a room. |
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At the beating heart of the department are detectives John Mahogany and Mitch Rust, played by comedians Steen Raskopoulos and John Kearns. |
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After questioning, the PSNI said detectives were drawing up a file to be handed to prosecutors who would decide whether to press charges. |
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An area around Maureen Walk was sealed off this morning as detectives from anti-gun unit Matrix looked for clues. |
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Now, I know the story is away with the fairies, but he produces a body and I take him down to the station to talk to the detectives. |
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The ROP detectives received a tip-off that the accused had planted opium poppies at their residence in Bahla. |
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The photo helped detectives track down Damodar Rao, 22, who was sentenced to 15 days' custody after admitting attempted rape. |
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Flying squad detectives have foiled a robbery after a lorry with a mechanical arm was used to rip a cash machine from a bank. |
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When leads dry up or the truth is murky, LAPD detectives end up here, on the fourth floor of downtown's Parker Center, headquarters of the Polygraph Unit. |
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Issues the TV detectives will be tackling in the forthcoming series include bodysnatching, competitive cycling and even mystery sightings of UFOs over Midsomer County. |
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When arrested detectives found six videos of happy slapping incidents. |
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She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. |
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Queensberry won a counterclaim against Wilde for the considerable expenses he had incurred on lawyers and private detectives in organising his defence. |
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North Wales detectives had been questioning the teenager from Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, since Tuesday morning about the murder of Mrs Leyshon in November. |
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Detroit News reported that detectives have already conducted their investigations and found out that Finner was the one watching the baby while the mother was asleep. |
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As detectives stepped up the hunt for the fire-raisers, residents in a maisonette block on Tyneside told of their ordeal of being trapped in their homes. |
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Police have offered a huge pounds 1m reward for information leading to the gang and flying squad detectives have been carrying out a huge manhunt. |
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It took a team of 15 detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Doorknock two years to piece together the evidence which led to Levene's conviction. |
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During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, Curtain and Sleeping Murder, intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. |
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He and Moat became friends through their association with Get Carter Cars, a garage in Newcastle's East End where Moat had worked as a panel beater, detectives said. |
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Despite scouring missing person records from around the world, detectives had been unable to work out who the barefoot hitchhiker, known as The Lady in the Afghan Coat, was. |
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To identify with this passage is, on the one hand, to reproduce the identification structure infilm noir with bad guys, femmes fatales, and neurotic detectives. |
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Gary Halden, commanding officer of West Valley detectives, said the man suspected of sexual assault is 40 to 45 years old and has balding shoulder-length black hair. |
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The existence of the firearms was revealed to Scotland Yard detectives, who are currently investigating Soldier N's claims, by Soldier N's father-in-law. |
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There was no traceable evidence left when the detectives arrived. |
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