21.  Although the three cases differ in substantial ways, the disputes do resemble one another.

22.  Although police were never able to conclusively link the three cases, detectives had looked at the possibility that one person could have been the killer, Beck said.

23.  Although Sheppard, a mother of three, has asked to die and Tucker pleaded for life, some see another difference in the two cases.

24.  Among the other cases, eight were treated and released and four remain hospitalized.

25.  And like the other cases, this one is not without bitterness.

26.  And in four of the other five cases, the Dow fell over the next two years.

27.  And the eerie similarities between the two cases have raised speculation that the same party might be responsible for the attacks.

28.  And the failure to connect the two cases is becoming a central focus of the investigation.

29.  Arguments in the two cases, Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, are expected in January.

30.  As for the legal teams involved in the two cases, there were few similarities.