Joseph Quinn (55) lying facedown on a grass bank off Forthriver Way, in the Glencairn estate near the Upper Shankill as instructed by the caller. He had been badly beaten about the head and face and his throat deeply cut. The man calling himself "Major Long" had claimed Quinn was a "militant Republican" who had been killed in retaliation for the fatal shooting of two Protestant policemen by the IRA the day before. The name "Major Long" derived from "The Long Bar", one of the Shankill Road pubs the "Butchers" frequented and often set out from to carry out their killings as they had done on the night of 6/7 February. Nesbitt did not connect the name "Long" to the Shankill pub which was a known haunt by loyalist paramilitaries. On the morning of 23 February a woman who was putting out her rubbish in an entry that ran between Mayo Street and Esmond Street in the Shankill Road area discovered the body of Francis Rice (24). Rice, an unemployed Catholic road labourer, had his throat hacked through almost to the spine. Nesbitt concluded the latest killings were perpetrated by the same person or persons that killed Crossen. By this stage the media was already using the term "the Butchers" to describe the killings. Despite Nesbitt and his men often working 18 hours a day, seven days a week in an attempt to apprehend the culprits, Nesbitt's major obstacles in solving the crime was the lack of manpower, resources and the reluctance of the local population to come forward out of fear of reprisals from paramilitaries. Furthermore, the killers left behind no witnesses or evidence which provided clues as to their identity. When a paramilitary killing took place, Nesbitt and his Murder Squad were aided by other members of CID for at least three days. The detectives attempted to cover every patch of ground in the area where it was believed the paramilitaries operated. When the period of time terminated, the squad went back to teamwork and the other members of the force resumed their handling of crimes unconnected with paramilitary activity. Nesbitt and his men viewed all paramilitaries as criminals no matter from which community they originated. He received his first lead in the "Butchers"' killings when the woman who found Francis Rice's body said that on the previous night she heard voices with Belfast accents in the entry