41.   A murder weapon dumped in the bayou is quickly and easily replaced, and so the cycle continues.

42.   A relative later said in an affidavit that the gun had cobwebs and rust in the barrel, but investigators pronounced it the murder weapon.

43.   A television camera focuses on prose cutor Martinez as he pulls on surgical gloves, then lifts a plastic bag holding the murder weapon.

44.   Acquitting the teens would be tantamount to putting the murder weapon back in the hands of two dangerous gang members, Ramos said.

45.   According to Turkish reports, the fingerprints on the murder weapon belonged to a gangster wanted for both heroin smuggling and for another murder.

46.   All the victims were beaten to death in their bedrooms and the murder weapon was left at the scene.

47.   But they said they believe they have ample evidence against Lee, who was found with a knife believed to be the murder weapon.

48.   But when given the murder weapon on the witness stand, he admitted that he could not show how it had gone off accidentally, as he claimed.

49.   Cops later found the murder weapon in the river off Manhattan.