murderer

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What followed was an unlikely 20-year-long friendship with convicted murderer Roderick Orme, which evolved as the pair exchanged hundreds of letters and emails.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The book does advance one theory of who the murderer is.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

"I am not a saint but I am not a murderer either," Kocner said in 2020 in a statement in court.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

The tag was also, incidentally, a play on “The Blue Dahlia,” a 1946 movie written by Raymond Chandler and starring Veronica Lake as a plucky drifter who helps the hero track down his wife’s murderer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Alfons couldn’t believe the officer’s audacity to call Adolf Hitler a mass murderer.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti