31.  As in the other cases, they remain unsolved.

32.  Ashcroft said the two cases were separate.

33.  At that time, he said, the similarities of the two cases struck him.

34.  Biggs pointed out that the two cases were not exactly the same.

35.  A spokesman at The Hague, Jim Landale, said he had no information on why the investigators left before pursuing the two cases.

36.  A total of six people were convicted of murder in the two cases.

37.  Abundant circumstantial evidence, including telephone and financial records, suggests the two cases are related, and that Waters was a common link.

38.  After the Hawes case was initially assigned to a U.S. district judge whom they regarded as possibly sympathetic, they dropped all the other cases.

39.  Again and again, Senator Clinton asked reporters to make a distinction between the two cases.

40.  All backed out as facts in the four cases came to light.