detective
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In time, the married man, the younger man and the detective all vanish or recede, leaving Ms. Hepola alone but presumably wiser and more settled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The filing also alleges that detective Delaney Green lied when testifying in Kay’s criminal trial that she pulled data from Skaggs’ phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
When playing real-life figures, she said: "You have to behave like a sort of detective."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
It was shortly after Russia’s retreat from Bucha that Ukraine’s government handed the case to Dulkay, a detective whose standard fare before the war was robbery, murder and organized crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
He once decreed that no man taller than five feet seven could be a detective in Paris—and that no man shorter than five feet nine could be a constable, a street officer.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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The day after the call, internal affairs detectives got a warrant to place a tracking device on Meiser’s BMW.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
While detectives examined the patterns around Bumper’s spending, they discovered that Segura appeared to be committing fraud of her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
She also praised detectives for preserving evidence from the case for so long, saying it "demonstrates the need to preserve evidence even when decades pass".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
In late June, detectives carried out an investigative experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
While the detectives were trying to establish a connection between the slayings of Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown, Comstock passed on tidbits that he collected from his network of informants.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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