murdered

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Twisha's father has questioned both the post-mortem report and the police investigation, insisting that his daughter was murdered and alleged that "influential people are trying to derail the investigation".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Even so many years later, the indictment is a welcome attempt to provide justice for the murdered Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Schulz was an illustrator as well as a writer, and before he was murdered during the war he was forced to paint a bedroom mural for an occupying Nazi officer in what is now Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

So with thoughtful invention, Ozon gives the distraught Djemila — the murdered Algerian’s sister, unnamed in the book — a voice to go with her ignored status.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Had the Republic murdered relatives of my Drake classmates too, all those people who died in combat or in accidents or of illnesses?

From "Legend" by Marie Lu