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Major Case Squad Cases

            MCS-1: "The Case of the Spent Shell Casings"

            MCS-2: "The Case of the Smoldering Corpse"

            MCS-3: "False Alarm!"

            MCS-4: "Another False Alarm!"

            MCS-5: "The Case of the Hatchet Murder"

            MCS-6: "The Case of the Co-Worker Betrayed"

            MCS-7: "The Case of the Final Deep Sleep"

            MCS-8: "Wrong Jurisdiction!"

            MCS-9: "Unsolved!!"

            MCS-10: "Unsolved"

            MCS-11: "The Case of the Dangers of Drug-Dealing"

            MCS-12: "The Case of the Witnesses Under the Bed"

            MCS-13: "The Case of the Stone Dead Blood Stone Villain"

            MCS-14: "The Case of the Teenage Killer"

            MCS-15: "The Case of the Physical Conditioning of the Mind"

            MCS-16: "Accidental Shooting"

            MCS-17: "The Case of the Last Test Drive"

            MCS-18: "The Case of the Battered Child"

            MCS-19: "The Case of the Rejected Solicitation"

            MCS-20: "The Case of the Hair-Trigger Temper"

            MCS-21: "The Case of the Witness Through the Window"

            MCS-22: "The Case of the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time"

            MCS-23: "The Case of the Pathetic Victim"

            MCS-24: "The Case of the Man Who Went Down in a Blaze of Glory"

            MCS-25: "The Case of the Body in the Flophouse"

            MCS-26: "The Case of the Good Samaritan"

            MCS-27: "The Case of the Secret Sexual Preference"

            MCS-28: "The Case of the Cemetery Robbery"

            MCS-29: "The Case of the Ungrateful Grandson"

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Violent Crime

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Last Hanging History

        Painting of Last Hanging

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        Biographical Sketch of Thomas D. Hines, Lead Prosecutor

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