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murder

[mur-der] / ˈmɜr dər /




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“If I was a pious person, I could have concluded that I had committed murder, and that all those souls will haunt me forever,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

An investigation into the 1997 murder of Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace in Los Angeles ultimately led to the break in Shakur’s killing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Panel shows and murder mysteries are my favorite television programs, and I now feel I’ve completed the set by having made an example of each of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Before his murder trial, Field admitted burglary and fraud offences connected with relationships he had formed with Farquhar and his neighbour, fellow pensioner Ann Moore-Martin, to persuade them to change their wills.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Several years after the Osage murder investigation, Wren, the Ute agent, was forced out of the bureau again, this time for good.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Hobrough said in the last 10 months the force had dealt with the number of murders that would typically take place in two to three years.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

These attacks, plus a long list of murders of expatriates in Europe, happened when the oft-described “pragmatist,” Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani still dominated Tehran and controlled the Intelligence Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Prosecutors rejected that argument, saying Clancy had carefully planned the murders and was able to understand the consequences of her actions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

No-one has been convicted of carrying out the murders by a criminal court.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Yet, from the bureau’s early reports on the case, White suspected that Blackie might have key information about the murders, and without consulting Hoover, White had him transported to Guthrie.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

In Prime Video’s “Spider-Noir,” he played Ben Reilly, a hapless and jaded private eye who used to moonlight as a masked vigilante known as the Spider until the love of his life was murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ryan Speedo Green was an eloquent Banquo; Freddie De Tommaso’s bright tenor brought poignant lyricism to Macduff’s lament for his murdered family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

John and Penny Clough, the parents of Jane Clough, a nurse who was murdered in 2010.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Narciso had been on the bridge the night Lupito was murdered.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Pishko explains the story of Aaron Spencer, a 38-year-old Army veteran who was nearly put on trial for murdering a man but is now running for local sheriff.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

To wit: Sexton received 3,000 emails from a Kansas housewife obsessed with clearing the name of Dana Chandler, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Earlier this year, Finance Minister John O'Dowd committed to changing family law to automatically remove the parental responsibility of anyone convicted of murdering someone with whom they shared a child.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The defense for Lindsay Clancy, the US mother accused of murdering her three children, on Thursday accused a single holdout juror of blocking a verdict in the high-profile trial.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Pete kept on him, talking so gently and sweetly that he seemed all the more furious in his discipline, and I thought he had to be murdering himself inside to hold the line like that.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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