When a killer is on the loose in novels or on the silver screen, there's a special urgency for the detective on the case.

当小说中或者银屏上的杀手逍遥法外的时候，这对于案件中的侦探来讲是件非常紧急的事情。

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DETECTIVE STONE: I wasn't sleeping on the job. I had to work on a robbery case.

斯通侦探： 我不是在拖延这个案子， 我得破一个抢劫案， 我得去法庭

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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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The technical details of the California case may differ, but the level of fear people feel as they listen to accounts of the manhunt for a well trained suspect who authorities say has a vendetta is similarly acute, said Jim Trainum, a former homicide detective with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department who worked on the sniper case.

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