killer
Example Sentences
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“Complacency is a killer,” he told a crowd of about 50 last week at On the Kirb, an organic sports bar in the upmarket Houston neighborhood of Upper Kirby.
Instead of processing it on CODIS, they used another part of the DNA to search for potential relatives of the unknown killer in ancestry databases.
From Los Angeles Times
His older brother Billy has been seeking justice for years and believes there is enough evidence to identify the killer, saying it was "no ordinary murder".
From BBC
The white mask of the Ghostface killer has become a pop culture reference.
From Barron's
Author Michelle McNamara a decade ago helped revive interest in a serial killer who stalked parts of California in the 1970s and 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times
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