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slaying

noun as in homicide

noun as in killing

noun as in massacre

noun as in slaughter

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But the slaying of Arcos, who had vowed to pacify the region, was particularly grisly.

The slaying stunned the city, with many politicians and prominent members of the police calling for the death penalty.

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Security surveillance video showed two hooded men jogging up to the home before the slaying.

Prosecutors would argue the slayings were driven by greed and the brothers’ desire to get their parents’ multimillion-dollar estate.

A man suspected of strangling three women to death in Ventura County in 1977 is headed to court after new DNA technology shed light on the serial slayings that had stumped detectives for decades.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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