1.   The fact that none of the neighbors ever reported the abuse has baffled authorities.

2.   Now, thousands of fruitless inquiries later, Lingoes may have solved a mystery that had long baffled authorities in Quincy and Italy.

3.   She said she could make no sense of how San Diego resident Douglas Crawford could solve a mystery that had baffled authorities for more than a year.

4.   They said they planned to charge Kaczynski on Thursday with the string of deadly bombings that had long baffled the authorities.

5.   Two weeks after the shooting, authorities are still baffled by the murder.

6.   Aushev added that authorities were baffled by some aspects of the case, such as the fact that the officers apparently did not resist.

7.   Investigators were looking for any similarities to the case of a New York woman, who also died from inhaling anthrax and whose exposure also has baffled authorities.

8.   Police have arrested two suspects in a spate of car-window breakings on Los Angeles highways that have baffled authorities for more than a month.

9.   The leg baffled authorities when it was discovered as crews were preparing the damaged federal building for demolition more than a month after the bombing.