murdered

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Five years earlier, as the Spider, he was a super-powered guardian of the people; but he gave it up after the love of his life was murdered on the Spider’s account.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

My maternal grandparents’ families were murdered in the Holocaust and I just couldn’t understand this mother’s choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The state sufficiently proved that David Leath was murdered, he wrote, but “No evidence other than innuendo and conjecture identify Ms. Leath as having killed her husband.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

He said it was "possibly as little as a week" later than Ms Sindall was murdered.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

There were at least a dozen church parishioners at the house all morning with Walter and his family on the day Ronda Morrison was murdered.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson