In fact, two weeks after the double slaying in East New York, Mr. Garner told the police that he had witnessed another double shooting in which one victim died and the other was wounded.

The motive for the double slaying was still under investigation, the police said.

Since last week's double slaying at a Florida abortion clinic, both sides in the debate have redoubled their resolve over how the emerging health care bills should cover abortion, with the Democratic leadership still searching for a compromise.

Once inside the compound, the detectives found several blood droplets on the path leading up to the front door, as well as a blood-stained glove and other evidence they said linked Mr. Simpson to the double slaying.

None of the dismembering aspect of the double slaying was addressed in court because Judd was tried only of the murder of Mrs. LeRoi, whose body was not dismembered.

With careful shears, he clipped the columns that carried the story of the double slaying at the Olympia Hotel.

No arrests have been made in the double slaying.

In the last year or so a murder-suicide occurred at Fort Riley, and last March there was a double slaying during a robbery of a pizza parlor in town.

In 1998, Ferrell pled guilty to the double slaying of a couple from Eustis, Florida, becoming the youngest person in the United States on Death Row.

Two men were shot to death in the Bronx as they were sitting in a car last evening, and investigators called the double slaying "possibly drug-related."