Word: sleuthing
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...Abohalima himself, or rather by his absence. The investigation had already yielded three imprisoned suspects, a cache of bomb-making chemicals, and the beginnings of a money trail. But it had not produced a ringleader; someone not quite "the John Gotti of this group," as a New York sleuth told New York Newsday, but the "guy ((who)) runs the crew...
...Though aimed at seven- to 10- year-olds, the show seems too dull-witted and elementary. Looking for clues to the ghostwriter's identity, the kids try to analyze one of his early messages: "Help! Help! Where are the children? Are they all right?" "He sounds scared," muses one sleuth, "and worried about children...
WITH SWEAT SLIDING DOWN HIS BROW, scientific sleuth James Starrs shoves a long steel probe down through the dirt around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple...
...private eyes -- who often pay government employees for confidential data that can be gleaned in a matter of seconds. "If you're in a fight with your neighbor, these brokers can get you all the information you , want -- criminal records, earnings records, credit reports," says inspector Cottos. A California sleuth sums up the situation this way: "Look, we can get most of the information that we need in legitimate ways, but that's more expensive and time consuming...
BOSTON--A cramped state office cluttered with paper seems an odd place to find the sharp-eyed sleuth who squeezed $500 million in Medicaid money from the federal government...