11.   Also Wednesday, Missouri authorities said a handprint from a slain girl found last year does not match one from Rilya.

12.   Blanton and Cherry were charged with eight counts of murder each -- two counts covering each of the four slain girls.

13.   Classmates of the slain girls knelt among the flowers, some weeping.

14.   Convicted child-abuser Marc Dutroux is behind bars awaiting trial for kidnapping and killing the slain girls.

15.   He said the women were upset when the test was administered because police had just told them that Rilya might be the slain girl in Kansas City.

16.   He was dismissed Monday for bias against Marc Dutroux, a convicted child-rapist who has led investigators to the bodies of four slain girls.

17.   King Hussein of Jordan visited the bereaved families of the slain girls in a visit to Israel after the killings.

18.   King Hussein of Jordan visited the bereaved families of the slain girls in a historic visit to Israel after the killings.

19.   Police were investigating Monday whether two slain teen-age girls whose bodies were found near the French border were the victims of sexual assault.

20.   Police were investigating whether two slain teen-age girls whose bodies were found near the French border were the victims of sexual assault, a spokesman said Monday.