Chicken Bone

[Mullins, Bill]

>From today's Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59574-2004Oct24.html

"But even after all this time on the job, the 51-year-old detective felt
slightly anxious being on the bubble. Would his next killing be a "chicken
bone," a slaying that is easy to solve? Or would it be a "predator murder,"
a homicide sparked by a street beef or drug deal that would present dozens
of challenges he might not be able to overcome? "