How to Use investigator in a Sentence

investigator

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  • To this day, investigators have not found the child's body.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • As with Mack, investigators have not said if their deaths are linked to the murders of the six women.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • He was released on bond and failed to show up for a court date in March 1999, investigators said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The documents state that investigators later found signs of blood on the basement stairs, and a makeshift burn pile in the side yard of the home.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 7 June 2024
  • The teen led investigators upstairs to the room with bullet holes in the window.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Alanta Scott said an investigator told her that the deputy marshals shot her son in the back.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But a few years ago, investigators used it to solve a decades old rape, leading them to arrest a now 66-year-old man.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But witnesses told investigators that after the men tried to break up the fight, Folson was grabbed by the throat and kicked.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The cause of the fire has not been determined, but arson investigators are on the scene, Scoggins said.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Kinn told investigators he was awoken in the middle of the night by the couple fighting.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 19 June 2023
  • At the time of the crash, investigators asked anyone with security camera video of the area to call the CHP office.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • See how investigators tracked down a killer more than 20 years after the Phoenix canal murders.
    — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The name on the account matches the name of the father identified by investigators and belonged to a man who lives in Atlanta, where Cairo was born.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Hazmat and fire investigators had been on their way to the scene, officials said.
    — Sinéad Hawkins, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Danny works with investigator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), who leads him to recall the past that drove him to commit his crimes.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 10 May 2023
  • Her death was ruled as a homicide, police said, and investigators named Kevin Kangethe as a suspect.
    — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • At some blitzes, investigators may catch a dozen people or more.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Federal investigators learned that the man did not know what the company was, and had never worked for it.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Sheriff Joe Hamilton told the station a gun was recovered at the scene, where investigators found the bodies of a man and woman.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Two investigators had lost children; one of them had also lost his wife.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Here's everything to know about the cases, and how investigators cracked them.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 13 May 2023
  • Smith's interest in the trip adds to the list of instances in which investigators appeared to suspect Trump was seeking to obstruct their probe.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 24 June 2024
  • Simpson was charged with the murders when investigators found a glove with blood stains on the athlete's property.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But investigators still didn’t know the location of Todd’s body.
    — Kelly Heinzerling, ABC News, 3 May 2024
  • None of the victims were wearing seat belts, investigators said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Fire investigators are still determining the cause of the blaze.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • As many as six employees slept in each RV, investigators said, which cost workers up to $2,000 to purchase.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Again, the state did not name the patient, but investigators found the hospital failed to address signs of a hemorrhage before a birthing patient died that day.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Video footage places Stines and Mullins inside the judge's chambers later that day, according to investigators.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2024
  • However, that has not stopped the curious from trying to reveal the true identity, and this week a new investigator threw his hat into the ring.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

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