31.   The charge allowed the police to hold him while officers investigated the killing.

32.   The Croatian police said they were investigating the killings.

33.   The FBI helped Cuban officials investigate the killing of five people, two of them Miami residents, in an attack in Cuba last December.

34.   The House Select Committee on Assassinations was investigating the killings of King and President John F. Kennedy.

35.   The grand jury investigating the killing of JonBenet Ramsey reconvened in Boulder Thursday after a four-month hiatus.

36.   The Justice Department says that a Federal task force set up this week to investigate the killing of Slepian is looking for evidence connecting anti-abortion violence at various clinics.

37.   The officials said gathering intelligence for the international war crimes tribunal investigating the killing of thousands of civilians in Bosnia was not their first or even second priority.

38.   The Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Mandelson, said the killing was being investigated and that he was confident British authorities would be exonerated.

39.   The two families have sued Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, whose predecessors investigated the killings, demanding access to semen samples and other forensic evidence in the murders.

40.   This investigation in eastern Kosovo is the only instance known where the war crimes tribunal is involved in investigating killings that may have been committed by Albanians against Serbs.