"I have concluded both murders involved the abduction of the victim and sexual conduct and both were aggravated by the concealment of the bodies.
"Gone, Baby, Gone," an earlier book, is in some ways an even darker, more complicated story, set mostly in Dorchester, the working-class Boston neighborhood, and involving the abduction of a 4-year-old girl and a pair of private investigators (played by Michelle Monaghan and Mr. Affleck's brother, Casey) who have been hired to find her and then find themselves morally implicated in the case.
The second high-risk incident involved the abduction of an Estonian security service operative from a border post on Estonian (and hence Nato) territory.
Scully was a scientist with high-powered perception, and she kept Mulder in check, for his willingness to believe often exposed him to harm especially as the shadowed forces within American intelligence agencies worked to obscure his findings and lead him down false paths as he quested after a very real conspiracy that involved the abduction of his sister.
Harry covers a grisly court case involving the abduction and murder of a three-year-old child and seeks out his long-estranged teenage son.
This kicked off the country's so-called Dirty War, which lasted through several Presidencies and involved the abduction, torture, and death of thousands of people.
There was no immediate indication the two men were involved in the abduction of Mr. Pearl.
Several other countries, including the US, were allegedly involved in the abduction of Belhaj and his wife.
The annex said the businessman was responsible for "co-organising hijackings and abductions" and was directly involved in the abduction of Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple held captive for 13 months before a ransom was paid in 2010.
Pakistani officials have said Mr. Hayee and other figures in Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are also suspected of being at least partly involved in the abduction of Mr. Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, though not in his killing.
