There is just one problem: someone has been calling the line and using it to announce a string of recent high-profile killings.

The 1994 killing of Teresita Valera Costello had been one of the most high-profile killings on the Police Department's unsolved-case list.

Three high-profile killings, all linked to the high stakes involved in the property trade, have taken place in Bombay in the past two weeks.

She said she concluded that they were scapegoats who had been arrested and beaten by the police to make them confess to a high-profile killing.

A candidate seeking a gubernatorial nomination of the governing People's Democratic Party was stabbed to death, the second high-profile political killing in a month.

This was in response to a wave of violence, including the high-profile killing of two students, with police officers accused of involvement.

Despite the high-profile killing of Mr. Zarqawi and other operations against Al Qaeda, attacks have soared in recent months.

It was the second high-profile killing of a Sunni cleric in recent months.

They recently confessed to most of the high-profile racial killings of the past few years.

Mr. Klebnikov's killing was one of a number of high-profile contract-style killings in Russia.