murderer
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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
Four centuries later, a Maltese minister leases a villa once used by a different murderer on the run and says he does not know who that murderer is.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026
He would tell the intern about the person who limped into the Westing house; maybe that was the murderer—unless his partner was the murderer!
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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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
Kelly Newman, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said after the sentencing: "Those who seek to help murderers evade justice should be in no doubt that they too will be held accountable for their actions."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"China supports Thailand in conducting the trial in accordance with the law and severely punishing the murderers."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Villarreal: We know Elsbeth as this person with a keen ability to read people, who can sniff out liars, murderers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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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