murdered
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The family of murdered student Henry Nowak have said police gave changing accounts of the events surrounding his death and did not initially disclose they had handcuffed him as he lay dying.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
As usual at breakfast, the faithfuls seated early mused over who may have been murdered overnight: "If Jerry's not here, I don't think I can handle it," Romesh Ranganathan confessed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Maria soon after learns that her father, from whom she has been estranged for decades, has been murdered in an Alabama beach town, leaving her his house and worldly goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
I could find nothing in the incomplete newspaper records to suggest that he had been murdered, or even that the fire had been arson.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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