I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a murder case
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He had been a witness in a murder case.
a murder inquiry
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Police say they haven’t launched a murder inquiry at this stage.
a murder plot
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He was questionned about about an attempted murder plot.
a murder/burglary etc suspect
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The murder suspect is described as in his early 20s, wearing a baseball type cap and a dark jacket.
a murder/burglary/drugs etc charge
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He appeared in court on fraud charges.
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Robins was in jail awaiting trial on drugs charges.
a murder/fraud etc trial
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She was a witness in a murder trial.
a murder/manslaughter/fraud etc conviction
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He lost his job following a drugs conviction.
brutal murder/attack/assault
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a brutal attack on a defenceless old man
cold-blooded murder
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cold-blooded murder
commit murder/rape/fraud etc
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The couple were accused of committing murder.
murder hunt (= a search for a person who has killed someone )
murder/robbery etc rap
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The kid’s been cited twice on drunk-driving raps.
scream blue murder informal (= scream very loudly with fear or anger )
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She flew into a rage and screamed blue murder at him.
solve a murder
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Police have called for witnesses to help them solve the murder.
suspect murder/foul play
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The position of the body led the police to suspect murder.
the murder weapon (= the weapon used to kill someone )
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Police found a knife at the scene that is believed to be the murder weapon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attempted
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Brown, of Mitcham, Surrey, denies kidnap and attempted rape and murder in April last year.
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In the Grampian and Northern areas there have been big increases in both murder and attempted murder.
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The boy's 30-year-old father is accused of attempted murder and will appear in court today.
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Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
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Stroud, Evans and White all deny two charges of attempted murder and the trial continues.
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Two men and a women have denied charges of attempted murder .
bloody
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder .
blue
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His bus turned into an Inter-City express without brakes and he sat on top and screamed blue murder .
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It might get into the papers, and then she'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder .
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I think that should be stopped - blue murder , vandalism and the lot.
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They say people usually get upset and scream blue murder and all that shite, but no me.
brutal
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The same reports say that intelligence ministry microphones planted inside their Tehran flat picked up the sound of their brutal murder .
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No one knew whether the civil jury would hold the former football star liable for two brutal murders .
guilty
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In 1990, the latest figures, eight teenagers aged between 14 and 16 were found guilty of murder .
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After a three-month trial, the jury found Bonin guilty of 14 murders .
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Green had pleaded not guilty to the murder at the couple's home in October 1991.
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They were tried and found guilty of attempted murder .
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During his next sermon he said he would leave Kidderminster rather than cause them to be guilty of his murder .
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And the penalty for the person found guilty of multiple murders likely will be death.
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Evans, Stroud and White have all pleaded not guilty to attempted murder .
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Butch finally pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years.
mass
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But the intentional mass murder of innocent people is not.
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On these pretexts they were subjected to recurring cycles of violence, mass expulsion, and mass murder .
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The fugitives, two of whom have been recaptured, are accused of genocide, mass murder and other crimes.
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Too few for Hello! magazine, maybe, but too many in a book about the mass murder of innocent people.
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His 12-year reign of terror left 26,000 dead in assassinations, mass murders and car bombings, nearly destroying the state.
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So chance played a part in the mass murder , did it?
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Why are we asked to apologize to apologists of mass murder ?
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The Aramoana incident was the country's worst case of mass murder .
■ NOUN
attempt
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She denied offering money to White to carry out the killing, after seeing a film showing a similar murder attempt .
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His claim about a murder attempt ?
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I did not leave until after his third murder attempt on me and still I believed in a reconciliation.
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Before the murder attempt comes the provocation.
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Her murder attempt fails and she goes to jail for life.
case
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This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel.
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It gets worse: Spoon and Stretch suddenly find themselves wanted as possible suspects in a gruesome murder case .
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He must be for ever two steps behind them on complicated murder cases .
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The estate is expected to be settled after the Menendez murder case is resolved.
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Every murder case involving females aged up to 21 and males up to 16 is recorded for the last 33 years.
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He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself.
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As a result of researching an old murder case , Emmy finds herself the target of a dangerous killer.
charge
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Relatives of Jonathan Probyn watched from the public gallery as the murder charge was read out.
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Ted is incarcerated in California, awaiting trial on murder charges .
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Reports alleged that Ordoñez, 33, was wanted on rape, assault and murder charges .
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Bechard will be arraigned Monday or Tuesday on murder charges , McCausland said.
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He was recognised as the genius of his age even when he had to flee Rome to escape a murder charge .
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He spent two sleepless nights worrying that he might end up on a murder charge .
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But as the elder brother remains silent, his lawyers are preparing a new tack in their fight against murder charges .
hunt
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Ten thousand pound reward in murder hunt .
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A murder hunt was about to begin.
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Police initially believed the pair had died in the fire - but within three days a full-scale murder hunt was launched.
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Now a new television programme re-tells the murder hunt .
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The murder hunt team are now back at square one after having arrested and released 27 men.
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The Yard launched the biggest murder hunt London has seen for years in the search for Miss Dando's killer.
inquiry
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That the police should not be involved because Medmelton had been disturbed enough without a murder inquiry being resurrected.
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Cleveland Police could not confirm last night whether or not they were treating the matter as a murder inquiry .
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It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets.
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Rain asked whether there was any progress in the murder inquiry .
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Forty detectives are now involved in the murder inquiry .
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The murder inquiry based at Mere Way police station now involves sixty officers.
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There had been no more news about the murder inquiry by the time Loretta arrived at her office on Monday morning.
investigation
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That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country.
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But the movie tells the wrong story, getting detoured into a murder investigation whose solution is far too obvious.
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Read in studio Voice over Detectives have started a murder investigation after part of a human torso was found in a lake.
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C., man during the murder investigation .
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Panorama on the Cardiff Three revealed the irregularities of the police approach to the murder investigation .
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Marek asked how much progress she had made in her murder investigation .
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He says he's also sueing the police because he's bitter about his treatment during the murder investigation .
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Was this a normal or reasonable way of conducting murder investigations ?
mystery
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Collins creates a gripping picture of slow-moving, small-town life, and packs it into a treat of a murder mystery .
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For those who like solving murder mysteries , however, this is one that will challenge your deductive abilities.
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I kind of chain-read murder mysteries .
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But it turned into a murder mystery anyway.
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So I will go through about five murder mysteries a week - I read really rapidly.
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The way P. D. James sees it, the murder mystery is all about the restoration of order to a disorderly world.
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You can try to work out whether it is autobiography or murder mystery and how it works within these genre classifications.
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The plot for a murder mystery ?
rate
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The murder rate would undoubtedly rise.
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Since 1993, the juvenile murder rate has dropped 22. 8 percent.
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Only Lothian and Borders has seen its murder rate fall - from 13 to 10.
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In the first 10 months of the year, the murder rate fell by 17. 3 percent from last year.
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The prison murder rate has increased.
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The good news for Thames Valley cops is that the murder rate may now drop to a realistic level.
scene
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He never misses a murder scene .
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Here was an eyewitness account of Butch at the murder scene .
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She was about fifty miles from the murder scene .
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In presenting his case, Scull needs to tie Wooten to the murder scene .
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The Crown claim that Henry ferried the gunmen from the murder scene .
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The book lags in the middle, the pacing slowed by an overly long delay in getting to the murder scene .
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At first, they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps.
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Dead animals placed at murder scenes .
suspect
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Read in studio A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight.
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By the end of the book, Britt herself is a murder suspect .
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The murder suspect is described as of black or mixed race in his early 20s.
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A promising young lawyer assigned to defend a murder suspect finds her client so appealing, she helps him escape.
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And the murder suspect himself, whom Lucy seduced to secure a confession, only to have the case dismissed for entrapment.
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Most glaring was the bungled arrest attempt last month of a 21-year-murder suspect in Kyoto.
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Instead they feel a thrusting businessman would make a better murder suspect .
trial
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News of a double murder trial filled the papers.
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Rush to find defence team after sudden arraignment Hit-squad informer faces murder trial .
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Since Prozac went on the market in the late 1980s, it has been featured in books, jokes and murder trials .
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Before getting to the murder trial , I will note two incidents that occurred in Geneva.
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Even when a jury found willful conduct, that decision did not follow a murder trial .
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He was forced to abandon Wells's murder trial which began on Monday.
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Not much is like the first day of a murder trial .
victim
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Anti-racist campaigners say Ashiq was the sixth racist murder victim this year.
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Not as a still, cold murder victim .
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And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further ... also demanding protection for the families of murder victims .
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Belushi, by now a murder victim himself, tells all this in flashback ala Sunset Boulevard.
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And was the mysterious woman the murder victim or was it some one else?
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In one, blood was seen dripping through the ceiling from a murder victim on to another woman.
weapon
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Hayes found the murder weapon , a flat iron with blood and Maria's hair upon it, in a cupboard.
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The murder weapon , a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
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I think this was the murder weapon .
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There may be some account of what happened to the murder weapon .
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After all, anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives.
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A murder weapon in that case was never recovered.
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My only direct experience with murder weapons was Cluedo, but even I knew enough not to mess with it.
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Nico and Molto had been clever enough not to search for the murder weapon , too.
■ VERB
accuse
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He has apparently upset the police by claiming to have an alibi for a teenager accused of murder .
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The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder , committed suicide by taking poison.
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They are accused of inspiring the murders of secular intellectuals in the 1990s, but they deny this.
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Anonymous flyers posted around town have accused him of murder and threatened him with lynching.
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Details about a politician accused of murder .
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Eddie Griffin plays the unfortunate suit who is falsely accused of murder .
acquitted
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The police will never look for anyone else after a defendant is acquitted of murder .
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A jury acquitted Simpson of the murders in October.
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André, accused of pushing her, was acquitted on murder charges in a controversial trial.
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After he was acquitted of murder in 1995, he had $ 8 million.
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The officers were acquitted of murder in a state criminal trial.
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He was acquitted of that murder and of killing Ronald Goldman in October 1995.
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Simpson can not invoke Fifth Amendment protection for himself because he already has been acquitted of murder .
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In a landmark Minnesota decision in March of 1984, Lucille Tisland was acquitted of the murder .
arrest
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But if you were arrested for murder they would have to be very careful not to blow their cover.
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How else would we account for black men being disproportionately arrested for robbery and murder ?
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Sacco, a factory worker, and Vanzetti, a fish pedlar, were arrested for the murder .
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He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work.
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But he realised they needed much more evidence before they could arrest him for murder .
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When Creed called, Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who'd just been arrested on a murder charge.
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Man arrested over schoolgirl murder A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of the schoolgirl from Kent, Claire Tiltman.
commit
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I have come into this chapel to commit murder .
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Kirkpatrick was 23 when he committed the murders .
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If the security forces are not present and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is still the result of collusion.
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I would think some one who had committed a murder would have more sense than that.
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Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders .
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Baldwin, the poor schlemiel, is talked into committing a murder , which he botches badly.
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Burrows vehemently denies being anywhere near here, and swears he didn't commit the murder .
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No, I did not commit the murders .
convict
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If convicted of first-degree murder Mr Markovic would face at least 10 years in prison.
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Broadus and Lee face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
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He was rightly convicted of murder .
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If convicted of murder and one additional charge, Davis could be sentenced to death.
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The two men were convicted of murder .
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Martinez was convicted of ordering the murder of rival gang member Richard Serrano at a Montebello auto body shop in November 1998.
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Read in studio A police investigation has been launched into claims that two men were wrongly convicted of murder .
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Twenty-three were indicted, with twelve eventually convicted of murder and five of assault.
deny
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Kelly denies murder and the trial continues.
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He denied a charge of murder and this plea was accepted by the Crown.
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Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
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Her husband, former hospital technician Eddie Gilfoyle, 31, denies her murder .
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Hobbins, who surrendered after threatening to kill himself, denies murder , attempted murder and firearms offences.
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Two men and a women have denied charges of attempted murder .
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Horbury denies murder on grounds of provocation.
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All three have denied attempted murder .
investigate
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David Blakey led a team focusing on the ability to investigate murder , and Dan Crompton reviewed the attitude to race issues.
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Now, Doctor Illingworth, I am never too busy to investigate a murder .
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Police investigating the murder of a pensioner have begun interviewing shoppers in an attempt to catch his killer.
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The National Human Rights Commission said it is investigating the murder .
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I've been investigating a series of murders in London.
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Officers investigating the murder say they've had more than a hundred calls from the public offering information.
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They've got the manpower and the facilities to investigate murder , Jett.
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Gilliane Queripel, 33, was arrested on Thursday by officers investigating the murder of Stacey Queripel.
lead
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The rivalry led to the murder of Clodomir, her eldest son.
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Earlier, Simpson denied that he felt animosity toward his ex-wife in the days leading up to her murder .
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And I like the conflict a murder entails, and what leads somebody to commit murder.
scream
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His bus turned into an Inter-City express without brakes and he sat on top and screamed blue murder .
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder .
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It might get into the papers, and then she'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder .
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They say people usually get upset and scream blue murder and all that shite, but no me.
solve
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It is Joan and Ted's hope that even now some one may know something that can solve Brian's murder .
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In Central News tonight: Find our son's killer: Ten thousand pounds to solve a murder .
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And proof at last: Genetic testing solves a murder , thirteen years on.
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No, Mr Holmes, we use the computer to solve the murder .
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Mr Muncie, now dead, solved 53 Lanarkshire murders , including those by Peter Manuel.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
attempted murder/suicide/rape etc
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All I care about is solving this murder, I mean this attempted murder.
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He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
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In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
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Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
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Several forces have also seen very sharp rises in attempted murders.
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The charges include the murder of Becky and the attempted murder of Katie in April 1991.
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The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
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We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
first-degree murder
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Broadus and Lee face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
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How her conviction for first-degree murder affects her exposure to lesser murder charges is a matter for debate.
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If convicted of first-degree murder Mr Markovic would face at least 10 years in prison.
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Instead of being convicted of first-degree murder, Mitchell got six years for voluntary manslaughter.
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She was charged with first-degree murder.
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So the only issue before me is actual innocence of first-degree murder.
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The prosecutor announced that if she died, he would charge Leyland with first-degree murder.
get away with murder
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His parents let him get away with murder.
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She lets those kids get away with murder.
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But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder.
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He can get away with anything, he could get away with murder and my mom would still love him.
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I think the women of your time have been allowed to get away with murder.
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In those days people throughout the organization often got away with murder.
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Sorcerer thought he could get away with murder.
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They get away with murder because of their buying power.
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When we played them last week, the officials let Erik Williams get away with murder.
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Where are these men when, as you say, there are men literally getting away with murder?
murder in the first degree
murder/the truth etc will out!
scream/yell bloody murder
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People were screaming bloody murder about the ridiculous prices.
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder.
second-degree murder/assault/burglary etc
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A 16-year-old black youth, Lemrick Nelson, was later charged with second-degree murder in relation to the stabbing.
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After psychiatric evaluations found that he was competent to stand trial, Harwood pleaded guilty July 16 to second-degree murder.
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Bach, 13, was arrested late last month and charged with second-degree murder.
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Davis was arrested weeks later and convicted of second-degree assault.
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He faces a count of second-degree murder in the Nov. 10 shooting death of Brad Hansen, also 13.
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However, the degree of severity of the indictment, which could range from negligent homicide to second-degree murder, remains unclear.
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Kravitz reduced the charge to second-degree murder.
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Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.
sectarian violence/conflict/murder etc
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Church leaders hold crisis talks on wave of sectarian murders - see page 6.
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Military governance has not ended sectarian violence or brought a return of foreign investment.
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Nevertheless, the moves towards positive change are being frustrated both by threats from right-wing activists, and by sectarian conflicts.
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Southern states, usually less prone to sectarian violence, were also hit, with many deaths reported from Karnataka and Kerala.
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The sectarian violence of Northern Ireland is a different matter altogether.
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The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
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They may reduce the risk of attack, but they can not prevent random sectarian murders.
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Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24, were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence.
serial killings/murders etc
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But the news of serial killings last year led to near mass hysteria.
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They're the devil, these serial murders.
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What about fingerprints, copycat crimes and serial murders?
third-degree murder/burglary/assault etc
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Butch finally pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years.
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a five-month murder trial
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a series of brutal murders
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Curtis's husband has been charged with her murder .
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He was charged with attempted murder and found guilty.
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New York paid tribute to the thousands of innocent people murdered on September 11th.
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Ronny Jones was found guilty of the murder of a 15 year old girl.
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The murder victim has not yet been identified.
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The gun was found five miles from where the murder was committed.
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The incidence of violent crimes -- murder , rape, and assault -- has increased in inner city areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was suspected of as many as 44 murders.
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If convicted of murder and one additional charge, Davis could be sentenced to death.
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In the first 10 months of the year, the murder rate fell by 17. 3 percent from last year.
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Short of murder , whatever occurred between husband and wife was not considered by Locke to be of public concern.
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There had been two more murders.
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They joined Gundovald after Chilperic's murder in 584.
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Why would a double murder in Cologne have been passed to counter-intelligence?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
brutally
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The royal family, in the House of Ipatyev, had already been brutally murdered eight days earlier.
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The mestizos, mulattoes, and whites were brutally murdered as they slept.
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For a man whose lover had been brutally murdered the night before he seemed cheerful and composed.
■ NOUN
attempt
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Riderhood becomes a lock-keeper at Plashwater Weir and discovers Headstone's attempt to murder Wrayburn.
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His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship.
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Mr Austin said it was an attempt to murder his family.
brother
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He had two sons, Michael, a stationer, and Philip, who murdered his brother in December 1645.
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You know, I had a brother who was shot and murdered .
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Had Alfred Glynn murdered his brother then killed himself in this frightful manner by way of expiation?
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And he had murdered my brother .
charge
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All three deny joint charges of attempting to murder Mr Stokle and Mrs Leyshon.
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He is being tried on a charge of murdering 30-year-old Oakland hairdresser Anthony Gilbert last October.
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Between them, they have had me imprisoned, on the charge of having murdered Victor.
child
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Deadly A nurse was convicted of murdering four children in her care.
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It was as if Lewis had wanted to murder his own child , the new Democratic Party he had created.
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A girl had murdered two small children whom she was babysitting for, and had then drowned herself.
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If you light up in New York some mom in California will sue you for murdering her unborn child .
conspiracy
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He was found guilty of conspiracy to murder but not guilty of attempted murder.
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The convictions included murder , conspiracy to murder, racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs in prison.
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McCrory, Green and Doherty denied a similar conspiracy to murder Norris.
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He was acquitted on a count of conspiracy to murder .
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Brothers Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi received one year and six years respectively for conspiracy to murder .
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A possible answer emerged last week when Rizvi was arrested at his plush Bombay home and charged with conspiracy to murder .
daughter
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She was eventually given two life sentences for murdering her seven-year-old daughter and her four-year-old playmate.
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Boyce admitted murdering Thomas Boedecker and attempting to murder his wife, daughter and son.
family
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Mr Austin said it was an attempt to murder his family .
father
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Read in studio An inquest has opened on a young girl, who it's alleged was murdered by her father .
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He knows we murdered his father .
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Prince Hamlet knows that his uncle Claudius murdered the king his father .
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Read in studio A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a father of four inside a crown court building.
friend
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She felt she had murdered a friend . 3 Life now became rather difficult for the Durbeyfields.
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Why are you protecting these cold-blooded killers, he said, they just murdered two of my friends .
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They murdered her friend and political ally, Airey Neave.
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Time allowed 00:00 Read in studio A husband has appeared in court accused of murdering a friend of his wife.
girl
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The youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl .
husband
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Go and see this woman who's just been found not guilty of murdering her transvestite husband .
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It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband .
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Taylor and Smith, 42, of Dousland, Devon, both admitted conspiring to murder her husband .
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He explained to the desk sergeant that he was worried that his sister had been murdered by her husband , Joseph Shill.
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Did she, or did she not, murder her second husband , Henry Stewart, lord Darnley?
life
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She was eventually given two life sentences for murdering her seven-year-old daughter and her four-year-old playmate.
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Dahmer is serving life for murdering 17 men, including 15 butchered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Mynott was jailed for life in 1980 for murdering a 54-year-old man near his home in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
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Gary Mills and Tony Poole are serving life sentences for murdering a drug dealer.
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Millionaire businessman Malcom Horsman, 66, has been jailed for life for murdering his wife, Ursula.
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Last week four black youths were jailed for life for murdering three white youths while stealing their car.
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He was jailed for life for murdering 23-year-old Anna McGurk two weeks after being on bail charged with rape.
man
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The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free.
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I deposed the three men who had nearly murdered him.
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Mr Gallagher, a SinnFein member, was the first of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in the past two days.
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A man among men knows how to murder .
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Two men are accused of murdering the informer to stop him giving evidence at an armed robbery trial.
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The king had sent his own men out to murder me!
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Sure enough, the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand.
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Read in studio A man charged with murdering his wife more than twenty years ago has been committed for trial.
night
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For a man whose lover had been brutally murdered the night before he seemed cheerful and composed.
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Now both prepare to murder through the night .
officer
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They also deny attempting to murder two other officers - Mark Whitehouse and Susan Larkin - later that night.
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They also denied trying to murder three police officers and possessing a rifle with intent to endanger life.
parent
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Well, we all want to murder our parents , it's only natural.
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Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents .
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Prosecutors claim the brothers murdered their parents to get the $ 14 million family fortune.
patient
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He was convicted in January of murdering 15 patients .
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Shipman was convicted last year of murdering 15 women patients .
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Patient confidence suffered a severe jolt when Harold Shipman, a family doctor, was jailed for murdering 15 of his patients.
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The former family doctor Harold Shipman has appealed against his convictions for murdering 15 patients .
people
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Every minute of every day people were being murdered .
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I don't want to know how to murder people like that.
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Incitement to murder , by people living nominally under a country's law, should automatically lead to arrest.
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The bombers are focused on one goal: to murder as many people as possible and eliminate the prospect for peace.
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He really did believe that murdering people could be justified just because you didn't like them.
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Mills had murdered more people than just my father.
person
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On Aug. 24 the state prosecutor, Nurullo Khuvaidullayev, had been murdered by unknown persons in Dushanbe.
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If you murder just one person you can be executed, and they massacred many.
police
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Read in studio A teenager accused of attempting to murder a police inspector has been cleared on the orders of a judge.
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They also denied trying to murder three police officers and possessing a rifle with intent to endanger life.
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Read in studio A man accused of murdering a police informer has been cleared.
son
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His murdered son was unpopular because he owned a Porsche.
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In what she considers her last, tragic recourse, La Malinche then murders their son .
trial
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Read in studio A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a father of four inside a crown court building.
wife
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Gilfoyle, 31-year-old auxiliary nurse at a private hospital, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his eight-month pregnant wife , Paula.
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Police are certain that Jack Reeves murdered two of his wives and strongly suspect that he killed a third one.
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Suspected of murdering his wife , Krane got off on a technicality and is now obsessed with proving his innocence.
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Sigismund was handed over to Chlodomer and murdered , together with his wife and children; their corpses were thrown down a well.
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They assert that Edward Ziobron murdered his wife .
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It was a cheap and easy way of murdering your wife , thought Henry.
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Gilfoyle, 31, denies murdering his wife , Paula at their home in Wirral early last June.
woman
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Shipman was convicted last year of murdering 15 women patients.
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But then what had I-what had Gloria-expected of a man who has murdered at least six women ?
year
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Read in studio Two men have denied murdering a twenty two year old man at a remote picnic spot.
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Bonin was convicted of the 10 Los Angeles murders that year , of the four in Orange County a year later.
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More than 200 have been murdered on duty this year .
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accuse
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Sendero Luminoso has been accused of murdering some 90 majors in the emergency zones since 1982.
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Brien, 15, who is accused of murdering a neighbor, was an unaggressive, but typical teen-ager.
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On July 11, 1964, the two Klansmen who were accused of murdering Lemuel Penn were acquitted.
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Story: A small-town family deals with catastrophe when the son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
believe
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Detectives believe the pair were murdered when a drugs deal which Mr Pettitt was involved in went tragically wrong.
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Two months after his death, they want a full investigation ... they believe he was murdered .
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He really did believe that murdering people could be justified just because you didn't like them.
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He believed Everett had been murdered for the same reason Cunningham did.
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They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up.
convict
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He was convicted in January of murdering 15 patients.
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Shipman was convicted last year of murdering 15 women patients.
deny
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They also deny attempting to murder two other officers - Mark Whitehouse and Susan Larkin - later that night.
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The 24 year old denies murdering his girlfriend's cousin Ian Barnes last August.
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He's denied murdering Elizabeth Howe, but has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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Robert Williams, 29, denies murdering Phillip West, 28.
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Gilfoyle, 31, denies murdering his wife, Paula at their home in Wirral early last June.
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Read in studio Two men have denied murdering a twenty two year old man at a remote picnic spot.
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Her husband Jonathan Probyn denies murdering his wife.
find
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Go and see this woman who's just been found not guilty of murdering her transvestite husband.
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Twenty-five years ago, it seems, in a patch of woods outside Philadelphia, a little boy was found murdered .
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I want to devote all my time to finding out who murdered Sandy.
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After performing mass one day, Thomas was found murdered in the cathedral.
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Sakamoto, a Tokyo lawyer who was investigating the cult, was found murdered , together with his wife and child.
plead
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Gilfoyle, 31-year-old auxiliary nurse at a private hospital, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his eight-month pregnant wife, Paula.
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Harris has pleaded not guilty to murder .
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The youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl.
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Edward Browning, 36, a nightclub doorman, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mrs Wilks.
rape
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In 1984 at Enderby in Leicester two young girls were raped and murdered .
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Thompson, 42, was convicted in 1983 of raping and murdering 20-year-old Ginger Fleischli in a Laguna Beach apartment.
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Not to let me be raped or abused and murdered .
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He was lynched in 1932 after he raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl.
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In this film an 11-year-old girl has been brutally raped and murdered .
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A 28-year-old handyman, Juan Chavez, has confessed to abducting, raping and murdering Jimmy Ryce.
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On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow.
suspect
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Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered some one in the stylish thriller Shattered.
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The criminal Grimes is already suspected of murdering his apprentices, and no one will go fishing with him in his boat.
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Gita hops it with little Chinchilla, Sanjay is suspected of murdering them.
torture
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John Wayne Gacy, who tortured and murdered dozens of young men, was engaged when his execution date arrived.
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Throughout the country, Mugabe supporters have beaten, tortured and murdered opposition members.
try
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One time he tried to murder Richard Baxter in the churchyard.
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She had to marry him because Fa-ther tried to murder her before she was born.
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I had decided I would try to murder Esmerelda before she and her parents even arrived for their holiday.
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They were trying to murder that man.
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She certainly did not look desperate or mad enough to have tried to murder her master.
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He tried to murder me, sir!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
first-degree murder
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Broadus and Lee face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
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How her conviction for first-degree murder affects her exposure to lesser murder charges is a matter for debate.
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If convicted of first-degree murder Mr Markovic would face at least 10 years in prison.
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Instead of being convicted of first-degree murder, Mitchell got six years for voluntary manslaughter.
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She was charged with first-degree murder.
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So the only issue before me is actual innocence of first-degree murder.
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The prosecutor announced that if she died, he would charge Leyland with first-degree murder.
murder in the first degree
scream/yell bloody murder
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People were screaming bloody murder about the ridiculous prices.
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder.
second-degree murder/assault/burglary etc
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A 16-year-old black youth, Lemrick Nelson, was later charged with second-degree murder in relation to the stabbing.
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After psychiatric evaluations found that he was competent to stand trial, Harwood pleaded guilty July 16 to second-degree murder.
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Bach, 13, was arrested late last month and charged with second-degree murder.
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Davis was arrested weeks later and convicted of second-degree assault.
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He faces a count of second-degree murder in the Nov. 10 shooting death of Brad Hansen, also 13.
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However, the degree of severity of the indictment, which could range from negligent homicide to second-degree murder, remains unclear.
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Kravitz reduced the charge to second-degree murder.
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Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.
sectarian violence/conflict/murder etc
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Church leaders hold crisis talks on wave of sectarian murders - see page 6.
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Military governance has not ended sectarian violence or brought a return of foreign investment.
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Nevertheless, the moves towards positive change are being frustrated both by threats from right-wing activists, and by sectarian conflicts.
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Southern states, usually less prone to sectarian violence, were also hit, with many deaths reported from Karnataka and Kerala.
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The sectarian violence of Northern Ireland is a different matter altogether.
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The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
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They may reduce the risk of attack, but they can not prevent random sectarian murders.
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Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24, were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence.
serial killings/murders etc
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But the news of serial killings last year led to near mass hysteria.
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They're the devil, these serial murders.
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What about fingerprints, copycat crimes and serial murders?
third-degree murder/burglary/assault etc
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Butch finally pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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On his order, a million people were brutally murdered.
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One of the country's top judges has been murdered by the Mafia.
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the murdered man
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The girl had been raped and murdered.
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The opening act murdered "Love is All Around."
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Wilson is accused of murdering his daughter and her boyfriend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Read in studio An inquest has opened on a young girl, who it's alleged was murdered by her father.
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She was murdered before she could call for help.
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The confessor was murdered and Dymphna was beheaded for reftising to return home.
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The latent thought is the notion that Gloucester may be plotting to murder him - an idea too horrifying to contemplate.
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The next morning, another black who was allegedly part of the ambush party was brought to the same spot and murdered.
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Your husband, Lady Isabella, had secrets - that is why he was murdered.