Because of the format's nature, the detectives rarely encounter a simple murder where the murderer does little to hide his or her guilt (actually very common).

He is the one who usually solves or puts the pieces together in the rare crimes the detectives encounter.

The first man whom the detective encountered was Clyde Burke.

She had always valued her secretary's comments, but she had never expected that she would make such a moral mountain out of the sort of little problem that detectives encountered every day.

An investigator said detectives encountered the man, who lives near the park, early in the case.

The detective encountered the man, Michael Robinson, in front of 1309 Clinton Avenue just after midnight yesterday.

Police, from the first, had called Cooratal in for questioning, but, like Philip DeLieto, detectives had encountered witnesses who placed him at his workstation in the luncheonette.

During their investigations the detectives often encounter police officers Vonda Wysocki (Jarek's niece) and Vonda's partner Isaac Joiner.

The detective had encountered The Shadow in the past.

The detective invariably encountered a problem when he dealt with the police commissioner.