Word: manhunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, Stevens seemed an unlikely candidate for a killer. Police were tipped off that he might be the slayer when a December 1988 episode of the syndicated television program Manhunt prompted calls from people who suspected he was the murderer. At the time, Stevens was in his last year at Gonzaga University Law School in Spokane and president of the student body. But his identity as an unassuming law student began to unravel quickly as investigators discovered that Stevens had been convicted in 1979 of stealing police equipment and had disappeared from a work-release program in 1981. Stevens...
...nation's worst unsolved serial-murder case, a seven-year manhunt has finally produced a suspect: a 38-year-old former law student with a mysterious past...
...square the day after martial law was declared, Wuer remained devoted to the cause. "I deserved to be replaced," he conceded, for believing false information that the army was about to move in. After the army finally did appear two weeks later, Wuer vanished, and only last week's manhunt dispelled rumors that he had been shot to death or had taken his own life...
...plot has all the elements of an old-fashioned detective movie. A police officer is brutally gunned down and a frantic manhunt ensues. A long-haired laborer is convicted of the murder after his companion on the fateful night testifies against him. A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the case and produces a gritty documentary in which the prosecution's witnesses shed doubt on their own testimony. Ideally, there should be a happy cinematic ending, as the wrongly convicted man leaves prison after twelve years to resume his shattered life...
...escapees were among 22 members of a Muslim fundamentalist group called Al Jihad (Holy War) convicted in 1982 of murdering Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Officials declared a nationwide manhunt, fearing that the convicts might seek revenge on 44 police officers who were acquitted last month of torturing Jihad members while investigating Sadat's killing...