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The Post-Columbo Era: How the courts killed good detective work.(how laws limit methods of criminal investigation)

National Review

| September 03, 2001 | TUCKER, WILLIAM | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Think the cops are having a tough time cracking the Chandra Levy case? Try this one on for size.

Samiya Haqiqi, a 24-year-old law student at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut, drove to New York City on a Friday night in November 1999 to meet her boyfriend for dinner. She intended to break up with him. The next day her car was found abandoned in a Grand Union supermarket parking lot. She has not been seen since.

Suspicion quickly fell on the boyfriend. He claimed she never made the dinner engagement. When police asked further questions, he hired an attorney and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. Although Haqiqi's relatives urged the Queens district ...

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