Word: link
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...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
...skills to catch so slippery a killer. Even as the shooter--or shooters--taunted investigators by picking off more victims last week, authorities unleashed an unprecedented arsenal of tools to crack the case: geographic-profiling computers to try to pinpoint the killer's home, ballistics databases intended to link his unique bullet markings to other crimes and trace-substance technology to lift whatever clues (fingerprints, DNA) might adhere to a shell casing or a tarot card...
...ballistics network has been slow getting implemented nationwide. But when it works, it works well. Kareem Willis, 20, was arrested last year in New York City for armed robbery. When police tested his gun, they were able to link it to four shootings and three deaths. He's now serving 25 years to life for two of those killings. "We have evidence sitting in here linked to numerous other crimes," says Detective Mike Boncimino. "Eventually they're going to get caught with...
Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole rips Democrat Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's ex-chief of staff, for his link to a North Carolina textile company that is "exporting our jobs to Mexico and China." The connection? His wife, Crandall, is the CEO. The attack on his wife left Bowles "galled...
...forensics side, the FBI is examining the ink written on a tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told Time. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland...