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Colorado Springs A six-week, nation-wide manhunt for seven gun-toting escapees from a Texas prison ended when the last two, stripped to the waist and hands in the air, surrendered to police in Colorado. Two days earlier four of the other fugitives, who had been living in a trailer park, attending bible classes and mixing with their neighbors, gave themselves up when they were surrounded by heavily armed police. A fifth committed suicide rather than surrender. The gang members, who escaped from prison where they were serving long sentences for rape, murder and other serious crimes, will most...
Past Issues Person of the Year Dec. 31, 2001 ----------------- Inside Tora Bora Dec. 24, 2001 ----------------- The Manhunt Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Qala-i-Jangi Dec. 10, 2001 ----------------- Unveiled at Last Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunting bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- First Blood Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Al-Qaeda's Reach Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- War On Two Fronts Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The War on Terror Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- Preparing for Battle Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Target: Bin Laden Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- America United Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept...
...their ivory tusks, felled thousands of sandalwood trees to smuggle their aromatic and expensive bark and murdered at least 120 people. Veerappan is more than a match for local police. For the past decade, a force of 600 commandos has been combing the forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that the bandit bribes politicians and policemen to tip him off about commando operations. But he also has a network of informers, who dread and respect him. Like a modern-day Robin Hood, he helps the poor with money...
...corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China. And next month, after a six-year manhunt, they expect to have her back in New York for a trial...
Even so, more than 75 detectives were on the case by week's end. But the all-out manhunt seemed a little belated, since so many women said police all but ignored them the day of the attacks. One witness, Web producer David Grandison, 33, said he was standing near some officers when he heard a roar from the crowd. The cops didn't move--and "I'm sure they saw some upset women walking away," he says. Two victims, Ashanna Cover and Josina Lawrence, both 21 and roommates in Somerset, N.J., said they were sprayed with supersoaker water guns...