Word: manhunt
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...City of Terror. Last week the young man was the object of a nationwide manhunt. Short minutes before Bus No. 8 took on its mysterious passenger, one of the goriest crimes had been committed since the days of Jack the Ripper. Creeping into the Y.W.C.A. near the Lee Bank Road bus stop, a killer had broken into the room of fresh-faced Stephanie Baird, 29, an unemployed typist who was packing for a Christmas trip to Scotland. He seized one of Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim...
Based on Georges Simenon's Maigret Sets a Trap, Inspector Maigret is a slick story of a manhunt. It opens, naturally enough, with a magnificent murder. The "Mairais Killer," so named because he does his business in the Marais quarter of Paris, has made a habit of stabbing young women. The killer challenges Inspector Maigret, who would prefer to go fishing, takes on the case...
...seems typical of French crime films, but as soon as Maigret appears, the weird story begins to emerge. As the manhunt runs its two-hour course, Maigret captures two murderers, an adultress, her gigolo, and the Marais Killer's possessive mother. Also in this line-up are an unfortunate butcher and a petty criminal who consents to act as a murder suspect...
Despite a huge manhunt centering in North Carolina and Virginia, only one of the convicts had been reported captured...
Married. Jacqueline Gay Hart, 21, comely New Jersey debutante, whose unpremeditated flight to Chicago six weeks ago on the eve of a lavish church wedding aroused a nationwide manhunt; and Stanley Noyes Gaines, 25, her forgiving fiancé; in a secret ceremony in the Harts' Short Hills, NJ. home...