1.   The murder is thought to have been a tit-for-tat response by the Mafia to an earlier gangland killing.

2.   The murder was an act of revenge for the earlier killings.

3.   He pointed to an article about the earlier killings in the current issue of New York magazine, and suggested it had motivated the killer.

4.   In a third parallel to the earlier killings, a daughter was found with signs she had fought for her life.

5.   State troopers said the murder this weekend was similar to earlier killings in New Haven, Hartford and other cities.

6.   The earlier killings left Dissanayake on a short list of middle-age politicians considered capable of running the government.

7.   Police Friday searched for possible links between Derochette and Marc Dutroux, chief suspect in the earlier killings.

8.   Punjab authorities said the mosque attack was retribution for an earlier killing Wednesday of a Shiite Muslim activist in Lahore.

9.   A lone voice sings an old song about earlier mass killings of minority Tutsis.

10.   At the time, Adam was on parole for the earlier killing.