Word: manhunt
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...basis of this sketchy information, a manhunt was launched. The bus station was staked out. Young Black men coming and going were stopped and ordered to roll up their sleeves where police thought they might find scratches the woman left...
...formula is depressingly familiar: a happy woman has her life shattered by a senseless crime, family tragedy or miscarriage of justice. From then on, society conspires against her with the intensity of the manhunt that pursued Thelma and Louise. Her enemies are smart and conniving, her allies weak and ineffectual. Her husband may try to help, but he is typically unreliable. Children, though loving, can be cruel. And everybody yells...
...murder transfixed the nation and aggravated Boston's racial tensions after Charles Stuart, posing as a mugging victim, called police from his car phone and sent them on a manhunt that led to the arrest of a black suspect. Ten weeks later, Matthew came forward and told authorities he had helped dispose of the purse. Next day, Charles committed suicide after reportedly telling his lawyer that he had murdered his wife to get her life insurance. Last week a grand jury indicted Matthew and his accomplice McMahon on nine counts ranging from compounding a felony to unlawfully carrying a firearm...
...thing, these killers usually get caught without a coast-to-coast manhunt. Being inexperienced criminals, most end up tripping over their own stories. Then they spill all the sordid details to a tabloid or television program for enormous amounts of money...
...young woman last seen boarding his boat. Then he changed his story, admitting they had sailed together, claiming that she had fallen overboard and drowned. Then he disappeared. Days later, a lobster fisherman found the woman on the ocean floor with weights tied around her waist. After a massive manhunt, Mainotti was arrested while breaking into a Maine house five miles short of the Canadian border. He denies involvement in the killing...