homicide
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Had five students done what a veteran homicide detective had failed to do more than 30 years earlier?
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
She spoke with a homicide sergeant named Blake Ritchie.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
He later mislabeled the dashcam footage, which kept it out of the homicide file.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Extreme ideas are shaping a campaign which features a record 35 candidates, as Peru confronts soaring extortion and a homicide rate that has more than doubled since 2018.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
These statistics, compiled by the criminologist Manuel Eisner, track the historical homicide levels in five European regions.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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