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Homicide Surge Spurs Enforcers

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Published December 11, 2008 at 1:11 AM CST
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Kansas City, Mo. – With fifty seven unsolved murders this year in Kansas City, police and federal agents went on a two day sweep of four neighborhoods .KCUR's Dan Verbeck reports.
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