For weeks the area's residents had known that something odd was in the air. But they could not quite put their finger on it. Last week District of Columbia police did.
"The neighbors smelled it," explained a police officer, "and thought it was some kind of gas coming up through the chimney. So they called the gas company. The gasmen went there but couldn't figure out what it was. They called the fire department. The firemen couldn't figure it out. So they called us. We came out and said, 'We know what it is.' "
Police showed up at a brick duplex at...
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