homicide

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While he didn’t have any updates for her, the conversation with Jessica apparently struck a chord, and he asked a homicide detective named Anthony Stafford to review Cynthia’s case.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

She spoke with a homicide sergeant named Blake Ritchie.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

The decline in Venezuela’s homicide rate from 2016 to 2023, the last year for which data is available, according to the Caracas policy group Venezuelan Observatory on Violence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

So while soccer is part of the book’s narrative, the memoir is as much about the sport as “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about avian homicide.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

It entailed Reggie pleading to two counts of negligent homicide, both class A misdemeanors.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel