21.   Rule signed a contract to write the book about the women being killed before Bundy became a suspect.

22.   Regarded as the first European to reach Timbuktu, Laing was killed before making it back home.

23.   She said she twice tried to kill herself before deciding to flee.

24.   Some said he had too much sexual desire to kill women before violating them, as the strangler often did.

25.   So to kill time before the climactic showdown, screenwriter Mark Lee packs Swank and Morita off to a nearby Buddhist monastery.

26.   The authorities say she drove her the couple to the farmhouse, gave them enough pain killers to kill themselves before leaving them for dead.

27.   The friend, whom Roohr would not identify, told officers that Beck had tried to kill himself before.

28.   The night she killed Rick Aris, he had left her with a swollen face and black eyes and promised to kill her before the morning.

29.   The story concerns his conflict with a drug lord named Mendoza, who Shame thought he had killed years before.

30.   Their declining numbers have long been attributed to inbreeding depression, but recent research shows that many cubs are simply being killed before maturity.