murderer
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A group of other Russian and German prisoners were also freed, in exchange for Western countries releasing several Russian assets, including convicted murderer Vadim Krasikov.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Nicolas Winding Refn directs this inscrutable yet mesmerizing thriller that follows the converging stories of an actress, an American G.I., and a mysterious murderer called the Leather Man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
At night, Elle shrugs on her father’s heavy black coat and slips into a reverie about a myth in which a grief-stricken murderer called the Leather Man searches for his lost daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The brother of Natalie McNally has said an appeal by her murderer, Stephen McCullagh, against his 31-year sentence is re-traumatising for her family.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
He called Rush a quack and a murderer, and even suggested the doctor was mentally unstable.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Convicted murderers and prisoners on orders for lifelong restriction would be excluded from the changes.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Still, she imposed what Norman Podhoretz called an “inordinate demand”: that Jews under Hitler be braver and nobler than ordinary people could be expected to be when murderers held all the power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Either way, reluctance to associate either Salinger or his most indelible creation with crazed murderers meant keeping their own wounds at arms’ length.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
"China supports Thailand in conducting the trial in accordance with the law and severely punishing the murderers."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Which was strange, because just minutes earlier he had been acting like we were all murderers for not crying our eyes out.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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