They begin to pressure the detective through various channels to stop investigating the case of Medina's daughter disappearance.
Investigators may find a suspect who appears to fit an incorrect profile and ignore or stop investigating other leads.
Told to stop investigating under threat of incarceration, he returns home.
If the cause has NOT stopped, then stopping investigating is the worst thing that could possibly be done.
Whoever was behind those incidents didn't want her dead, they wanted her to stop investigating.
The reporter subsequently stopped investigating, after an unnamed candidate elect cautioned him against further investigation.
She gets upset and tells him to stop investigating.
And if it doesn't, nobody will ever stop investigating us.
"Whoever they are, they want us to stop investigating any- thing that has anything to do with the Devonshire dump-or else."
I find myself more angry that the disturbance over possibly fraudulent evidence caused reporters to stop investigating questions about President Bush's military service.