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No doubt many will never be found. The recently discovered painted cave at Cosquer in the south of France, for instance, can be reached only by scuba divers. Its entrance now lies below the surface of the Mediterranean; in the Upper Paleolithic period, from 70,000 B.P. to 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHOLD THE STONE AGE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

Last Wednesday police called Smith in for questioning again. That same day a team searched her home, dusting for fingerprints, exploring a crawl space in the basement and removing several bags from the house. It was all finally too much: Smith broke down under questioning and told police where the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

The divers finally found the bodies last week, nearly 100 feet out from a boat ramp in the man-made lake stocked full of catfish. The children were still securely strapped in; with the windows shut, the car had floated slowly out into the lake as it filled with water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

In a pinch, whole cities can be demonized. Last spring Joseph Bales and Helene Lemay, a French-Canadian couple, found their 10-week-old daughter Muguet dead in her crib. Convinced that they might be accused of killing her, they disposed of the child's body in a wooded area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stranger in the Shadows | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

The Estonia is now lying in water shallow enough to be reached by divers and perhaps by salvaging equipment. Maritime experts and the ferry's owners agree that raising it would be technically difficult. And they acknowledge that it would be dangerous work for the divers to bring bodies to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruel Sea | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

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