11.  But Paul Sims, the Dallas-based programmer who runs survivorsucks.com, says he doubts CBS is planting false leads.

12.  But the detective said police also are being dogged by apparently false leads.

13.  But the search follows false leads and turns up no credible suspect, and that outcome is a telling comment on the play itself.

14.  But, along with the facts was a lot of what Marlowe and I called false leads.

15.  But, dreams of family reunions are fading away and the rumors run with false leads about missing men.

16.  Hetty feels her way through the case, surviving a booby-trapped house and a false lead or two.

17.  Instead, they said it may end up with thousands of false leads that have dogged the anthrax investigation since early October.

18.  Last spring, an FBI task force followed the false leads of an imprisoned convict who had implicated himself in the murders of three sightseers at Yosemite National Park.

19.  Knowing that any big case has scores of false leads, he was more than skeptical when Swanson asked him to compare the mystery letters with the Unabomber manifesto.

20.  Legal experts said enticing rewards likely will produce a deluge of time-consuming false leads, but they added that it is worth a try.