murdered

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My maternal grandparents’ families were murdered in the Holocaust and I just couldn’t understand this mother’s choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The state sufficiently proved that David Leath was murdered, he wrote, but “No evidence other than innuendo and conjecture identify Ms. Leath as having killed her husband.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

He said it was "possibly as little as a week" later than Ms Sindall was murdered.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

So with thoughtful invention, Ozon gives the distraught Djemila — the murdered Algerian’s sister, unnamed in the book — a voice to go with her ignored status.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

As there was no proof that the Riddles had been murdered at all, the police were forced to let Frank go.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling