murderer

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What followed was an unlikely 20-year-long friendship with convicted murderer Roderick Orme, which evolved as the pair exchanged hundreds of letters and emails.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The book does advance one theory of who the murderer is.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

The Harlem Renaissance produced stars like Aaron Douglas, shown here not in his famous murals addressing freedom, but in small, angular block prints illustrating Eugene O’Neill’s play “The Emperor Jones,” about a black murderer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

A convicted murderer in the state of Victoria has sued the prisons commissioner over his lack of access to the quintessentially Australian condiment.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

The midwife, needing to replenish her stores of leather flasks, nutmeg, pepper, and the water in which a murderer had washed his hands, made plans to attend the Saint Swithin’s Day Fair at Gobnet-Under-Green.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman