11.   But no real attempt at cracking the case had emerged and police reportedly have few leads.

12.   But Tiffany, police commanders and even Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani lavishly applauded the team of investigators who had cracked the case in less than a week.

13.   But they cracked the case only this week when they realized that the man they were after was actually a woman.

14.   But with the general obstructing him at every turn, can he crack the case?

15.   Cassano, in fact, said he has put off his retirement in hopes of seeing the case cracked.

16.   Castlebury agreed that the apparent slowness and inability of investigators to crack the case has contributed to growing public concern.

17.   Colm Feore appears as a principled Fed obsessed with cracking the case after all those years.

18.   Despite his demands, authorities and Gardner officials hoped that Youngworth could help them crack the case.

19.   Finally, it seemed, he had cracked the case.

20.   He sees this as his steppingstone to becoming mayor if he can crack the case quickly for national television.