Witness descriptions of the killer did not match Mr. Merah, he said.
Some of the early descriptions of the killer were of someone 5 foot 8 and heavy; Mr. Hooks is 6 foot 3 and slender.
He would not give a motive, a description of the killer or any information about what had precipitated the slayings.
With no description of the killer, many people, gripped with fear of another attack and seizing on any detail in their personal lookout for the sniper, were in a kind of white-van haze.
With law enforcement officials providing no description of the killer, the underlying view of much of the public -- sometimes implicitly felt, sometimes explicitly expressed -- was that the sniper was a young white man, probably with a military or paramilitary background.
When asked to provide a description of the killer, Satya describes his former face.
He had an alibi and didn't match the description of the killer.
Wells tells Doggett the description of the killer but the man isn't in lock-up yet because that won't happen until Wednesday.
Anderson's perverse trial strategy was either to conceal the transcript of the child's statements to his grandmother, or to obscure the child's description of the killer, which Anderson knew would likely have doomed his prosecution.
Konrad Gessner wrote the first scientific description of a killer whale in his "Fish book" of 1558, based on examination of a dead stranded animal in the Bay of Greifswald that had attracted a great deal of local interest.
