From there, Statman said her life was radically altered: On a filming trip, she went with Nelson to the house of a detective who had worked on the Tate case and who had mountains of police reports, photos, "everything imaginable" piled high on a dining room table.

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Irish police are excavating the rear of a house of a murdered former garda detective in the search for the body of another murder victim.

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Put yourself in the mind of the detective hiding in the house.

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To appreciate just how much so, one only has to read old hard-boiled detective novels and English manor-house mysteries.

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It is all a far cry from piecing together clues in a country house, or the drudgery of real-life detective work.

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Your young cousin apparently spends her entire life taking care of the house and watching TV while your uncle, a police detective, absorbs himself in his work.

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As it turned out, the mother had alerted the University Police Department, and a detective, Ronald Schreffler, was hiding in the house.

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He was lying on the beach when his father called him to tell him that a detective from the Lee County Sheriff's Office was at his house with a tow truck.

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