1.   The victim appears to have been poisoned, in a killing that savours of revenge.

2.   All the victims appeared to have died immediately on impact, he said.

3.   In many cases, the victims appear to have been randomly picked off the street because they look like illegal Fujianese immigrants.

4.   In other cases, the victims appear to have been detained for interrogation by anti-drug agents before they vanished.

5.   In other cases, the victims appear to have been detained for interrogation by drug agents as part of official investigations before they vanished.

6.   In other cases, the victims appear to have vanished when they were detained for questioning by Mexican narcotics agents.

7.   Lewis said the victims appeared to have been shot at random.

8.   Living becomes much harder when victims of a century-old shipwreck appear in the mist.

9.   Matagorda County Justice of the Peace Aaron Green said the youngest victims appeared to be in their mid-teens.