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While Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh continued to cool his heels in a federal prison, refusing to talk to authorities, law-enforcement officials were growing frustrated in their nationwide manhunt for the elusive second suspect, John Doe No. 2. Federal agents raided a small Missouri motel to capture and question a pair of drifters whose travels before and after the bombing paralleled McVeigh's. But the two men were quickly released for lack of evidence, the parallel taste in small towns and cheap motels an apparent coincidence. In Oklahoma City rescuers ended their search for bodies and survivors...
Nevertheless, the manhunt moved swiftly and efficiently for the team of federal and local investigators dealing in twisted truck parts, traces of ammonium nitrate in the wreckage, and forged car-rental documents. Luck played a role as well: in spite of the composite sketch resembling him that was broadcast nationally as early as Thursday afternoon, John Doe No. 1 almost got away...
...Danny Ray Horning, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" above a picture of the convict. "Danny Ray Horning," he explains, "was on the lam [on the run--if you knew this, disregard the translation] in '93 for two months in Arizona. It was the largest manhunt in Arizona history." In response to why he sports Horning's mug shot on his chest, he says, "I wear it to annoy people and attract random questions. I've been told that it's offensive and that it's a personal problem of mine...
Japanese police today mounted a massive manhunt for the masked bandit who pumped four bullets into the nation's top cop in broad daylight in eastern Tokyo. Media outlets, meanwhile, fielded telephoned threats of new attacks on police if they continue to investigate thecult Aum Shinrikyo, which is suspected of masterminding last week's nerve gas attack thatkilled 10 Tokyo subway passengers. Although the cult denies involvement with the gassing, or with the shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, police have seized a cache of hazardous chemicals during raids on the sect's compounds. Kunimatsu was in serious...
...original author of the crime was allegedly Manuel Munoz Rocha, a P.R.I. legislator from the state of Tamaulipas whose ties to Raul Salinas go back to their university days. Ever since he was charged last fall with organizing the murder, Munoz Rocha has eluded an international manhunt, and some investigators believe he may be dead. His motive was thought to be political: the legislator allegedly told associates that his ambitions to become a state governor had been thwarted by Ruiz Massieu. Munoz Rocha appeared to belong to a group of P.R.I. hacks known as the ``dinosaurs,'' old-timers wedded...