murder

Since people don’t know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, did you have any concerns that depicting his murder might upset people?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Act 3 witches’ ballet featured a satirical re-enactment of the murder of Duncan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Under long-standing legal principles, a juvenile who is sentenced to murder can ask for their minimum term to be reconsidered once they have served half of that time.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Agents working on Roan’s murder case later showed the creditor’s note to an analyst at the Treasury Department, who was known as the “Examiner of Questioned Documents.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Simpson, was produced 10 years after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and just prior to “If I Did It,” perhaps the most arrogant mea culpa in the history of confessional literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

It revealed that the lead detective who investigated the murders - a key trial witness - and two prosecution solicitors had been staying at the same hotel as the sequestered jury.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Prosecutors argued the murders were premeditated, while her defense contended she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis and depression, and that she wasn’t properly treated or diagnosed by care providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

A former gang leader goes on trial Monday in Las Vegas over the decades-old murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, one of America's most high-profile unresolved murders.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

That there had been no murders in the Superdome, no deaths in the Convention Center.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

During the mourning chorus for the murdered King Duncan, for example, they robed the Macbeths in ermine and handed them crowns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Talking about the “Pluribus” season finale, she said that while she’s never murdered anyone, she has felt out-of-control rage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“IBM trading like Claude murdered Watson,” Ken Wattana, founder of an AI agentic company called Conto, joked on X Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Videos have also been circulating of people dressed all in black, standing in military-style formation as they stage a "silent vigil" in memory of a white teenager who was murdered in 2004.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

This child carries the spirit of my mother, Amari realized suddenly, as well as the essence of her father, little Kwasi, the murdered people of her village, and the spirits of all of her ancestors.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

To wit: Sexton received 3,000 emails from a Kansas housewife obsessed with clearing the name of Dana Chandler, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The defense for Lindsay Clancy, the US mother accused of murdering her three children, on Thursday accused a single holdout juror of blocking a verdict in the high-profile trial.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The sister of the woman Knox was acquitted of murdering has objected to the show that is due to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Knox was convicted and later acquitted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Pete kept on him, talking so gently and sweetly that he seemed all the more furious in his discipline, and I thought he had to be murdering himself inside to hold the line like that.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee