1.   At the Nassau police homicide squad, Detective Sgt. Daniel Severin said he believes the mother might have been in the courthouse for some legal matter.

2.   Charly Gortano, an Austrian detective who heads the homicide squad here, looked to Tom Pellegrini, a homicide detective from Baltimore, and rolled his eyes.

3.   Homicide investigators were also on scene, but found no signs of foul play, said Lt. Mike Smith, supervisor of the Atlanta police homicide squad.

4.   Investigations by the homicide squad and the internal affairs bureau will continue, but Compston said witnesses support accounts by Koogler and the man Craver was shooting at.

5.   The homicide squad investigates all missing persons reports.

6.   The relative peace means a slow shift for the homicide squad.

7.   The veteran actor teams with Brad Pitt, playing a comparative newcomer to the homicide squad.

8.   When the police arrived, Hellenschmidt remained aboard, but quickly released the woman, according to Det. Lt. John Gierasch, chief of the Suffolk homicide squad.

9.   He had no apparent connection to the Our Lady of Peace parish, said Lt. Dennis Farrell, chief of the Nassau police homicide squad.

10.   No arrests were made in that decapitation, despite an intensive investigation by the police homicide squad.