Word: manhunts
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...enraged President Corazon Aquino ordered a nationwide manhunt for Bibit...
...belief that a bad estimate is better than none, the Census Bureau last week dispatched 15,000 head counters on a 14-hour manhunt. Clipboards in hand, maps at the ready, the enumerators peered under bridges, down subway platforms, through alleys to figure out whether there are 600,000 homeless people, as some researchers estimate, or 3 million, as advocacy groups maintain...
...massive manhunt in all the wrong places tied up police for weeks. No one had time to look for cracks in the smooth facadeof the husband who tended his rhododendrons, jogged with his wife and shoveled snow off an elderly neighbor's steps. Few of the leads were followed that might have revealed a psychopath who had taken out large amounts of life insurance on his wife, possibly to finance the opening of a restaurant, a pathetic aspiration that shattered two families and a city's racial peace...
...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...