11.   A makeshift courtroom filled to capacity by the personality of the sitting judge, one Seamus Patrick McCaffery, a gregarious, straightforward former Marine and homicide detective.

12.   A month later, Lou Smit, a retired homicide detective brought in to work on the case, submitted his resignation, saying had unduly persecuted the Ramseys.

13.   According to notes taken by homicide detective Ken Allen, Fassett recalls what he saw as if conjuring up a vision.

14.   After I was promoted to homicide detective, my partner and I were questioning two teen-age brothers about the murder of a woman in her apartment.

15.   After the predictable bloodletting, a cynical homicide detective shows up to view one of the bodies.

16.   Brennan identified them as Boston police homicide detectives Timothy Murray, Stephen Murphy and John Martel and State Police Lt. William Powers.

17.   Brown had defeated Dorsey, a former Atlanta homicide detective, after accusing him of turning the county jail into a wasteland of corruption.

18.   But more charges against them are expected, and homicide detectives are continuing their investigation in both Nassau County and West New York.

19.   But Sergeant Herbert Spellman, a Boston homicide detective, said in his report that he told Vien before the meeting that he planned to read Jordan his rights.

20.   But police are limited in how much time they can spend on cases, and most homicide detectives work several cases at once.