21.   Killings were occurring each day.

22.   Medical examiners have not determined when the killings occurred, but police said decomposition had begun.

23.   Most family killings occurred at night, in the home.

24.   More killings occur, and this time drugs certainly have nothing to do with them.

25.   On Wednesday, jurors found special circumstances that the killing occurred during a kidnapping, and that it involved the slaying of a witness.

26.   Safir said his detectives were unsure of the order in which the killings occurred and did not yet know whether there was more than one killer.

27.   She said she was still debating whether to report it when the killings occurred.

28.   State government officials said the killings occurred after a peasant attacked a police commander at a roadblock on a rural road into this mountain country outside Acapulco.

29.   The boy who called the police was the oldest of three who were apparently home when the killings occurred, Foley said.

30.   The charge against Zamora and Graham is capital murder because the killing allegedly occurred during a kidnapping, but prosecutors are not seeking a death sentence.