11.   Police quickly linked him to the most recent murder victim, Joyce Dickerson, within days of her disappearance.

12.   Residents blame them for nine recent murders.

13.   The agency has sponsored international terrorism in the past and acknowledged that its agents directed the recent murders of leading liberal intellectuals in Tehran.

14.   The British and Irish governments, which are sponsoring the talks, suspended Sinn Fein on Friday because of police allegations that the IRA was behind two recent murders.

15.   The most recent murder of a Vatican official took place outside its walls, but was just as scandalous.

16.   The most recent murders and maiming are not products of bad homes or neighborhoods, but products of something else.

17.   The recent murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi brought an unsettling sense of deja vu to everyone concerned with Latin America.

18.   The recent murder of a securities firm manager has prompted South Korean regulators to step up their investigation into widespread irregularities in stock trading, regulators and analysts said.

19.   Police said they have information linking Wade to some of the other recent murders, but did not elaborate.

20.   He has increasingly been criticized for failing to move quickly enough to solve human rights problems, including the recent murder of prominent human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa.