I’d just watched the guy we were looking for, Daedalus, murder his own nephew. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kaz hated a puzzle he couldn’t solve, and he and Inej had concocted a hundred theories to account for the murder—none of which satisfied. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That sent him flying back into the yard and around the corner of the cabin, yelling like I’d murdered him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town marshal also indicated that during the bureau’s investigation into the Osage murders, in 1925, Burt was so scared that he considered fleeing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Searching for a cure against the chill, he had the young officer who had proposed the murder of General Teófilo Vargas shot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the retrial, the jury convicted and imprisoned De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He murdered thirteen people?” said Harry, handing the page back to Stan, “with one curse?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Though the murder of the Eye Eater had made many of the Champions quiet down, the sponsors certainly didn’t seem to care that this Test might very well kill a few more of them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And what if John’s partner hadn’t been behind the murder? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I met Jack last night. He said you almost murdered old Gus.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After months in the county jail, away from death row, Myers again realized he didn't want to implicate himself in a murder he had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was faking his disappearance, and the challenge would be to find him, similar to the online murder mystery he’d planned two Halloweens ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

White and the prosecutors had worked with the Oklahoma attorney general to keep Hale and Ramsey behind bars by filing state charges against them for the bombing murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once before he had accepted completely what his life had made him feel, even unto murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mysterious death sixteen days later raised charges by blacks that he had been cold-bloodedly murdered by the South African police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he pulled the gun from the man’s hands, Better Joe berated him in their own tongue, over some protocol or gesture necessary for quieting a murdered enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My parents know what’s going on, so they don’t call the police when they hear their kids screaming bloody murder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

By the end of July 1925, White had turned his full attention to the last of the listed suspects in Anna Brown’s murder: Bryan Burkhart, Mollie’s brother-in-law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"One of the hostages murdered by Tar- garyen. It seems to be an unlucky name." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In every sense, the Hitler Youth had grown up to become part of the machinery of murder. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d just finished confessing to murders Chess knew she didn’t commit. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If not for the fact that she would be murdered on sight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And when White learned about a potential witness in the Roan murder case, he discovered that this person had been bludgeoned to death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t exactly suspect Mr. Pignati of having murdered her and sealed her body behind a wall in the cellar, but I was suspicious. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I discussed Dante's prior diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder following the attempted murder of his mother in my oral argument before the Mississippi Supreme Court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The state must first prove Emmett Till was murdered. The only proof is that the boy is missing. There’s no evidence of criminal homicide. You can step down, Sheriff.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In 2007, an archaeologist exhumed two partially burned skeletons from a bonfire site near the house where Alexei had been murdered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to be investigating Wellington’s murder and that was the reason I was asking about Mr. Shears. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll probably be leaning against a wall stiffly, with a drink in his hand, bandages around his ribs, and a new plan to murder me in his heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She is eager to leave, to escape this place where her brother was murdered and she rose to prominence only to be thwarted by a factionless woman who wasn’t supposed to be alive. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s something broken in me from watching my parents being murdered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I firmly believed that if I had picked up a rifle and gone on a murdering rampage, I would have still had the ben­efit of her unblinking love. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I just thought it meant my parents were going to murder me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Though White had gathered circumstantial evidence implicating Hale in the murder of Roan, there were still huge holes in the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Police declined to discuss a rumor sweeping Harlem that they had some motion pictures which had been taken in the Audubon Ballroom as the murder took place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good Norvelt people wouldn’t be suggesting that the old ladies are being knocked off like this is some kind of cheap murder mystery,” Dad said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These people murdered your parents, Tobias’s words echo in my head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But blinding yourself to the realities that our teenagers go through is like seeing a murder and turning the other way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And after years of bumbling, potentially crooked investigations into the Osage murders, White needed to weed out half facts and build an indubitable narrative based on what he called an “unbroken chain of evidence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“These murders are not their doing,” Dany told the Green Grace, feebly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly canvassing the room, they come up with the first solid leads about Lincoln’s murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He and the other students watched eagerly as accounts of one gruesome murder after another passed over the tiny VCR screen, accompanied by the hushed melodrama of Geraldo Rivera. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the students already at risk, already suffering, have become suspects, linked in various thoughtless ways to mass murder and—consequently—more alienated than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were never born, because their parents and grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The murder of Queen Morgause had not been done on purpose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horror of the murders dulled with time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn’t gone along with it, he’d have murdered you himself.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We hit the highway and drove east,” he’d said, in the process of describing what he and Hickock had done after fleeing the murder scene. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt she knew what a lying, murdering, hating person I really was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In cases where perpetrators of crimes against humanity elude justice in their time, history can often provide at least some final accounting, forensically documenting the murders and exposing the transgressors. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Apollo had declared that the plague would be stayed upon one condition: whoever had murdered King Laius must be punished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have—a wonderful world.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He insisted that he was not there the day of the murder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Aerys accused them of treason and summoned their fathers to court to answer the charge, with the sans as hostages. When they came, he had them murdered without trial. Fathers and sons both." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was nothing dingy, at any rate, about a legal murder in the Age of Darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to say,” he asked, “that you loosed that falcon on purpose, with her cranes on, so as to be able to murder me when I was naked?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

White still had questions about the murder of Mollie’s sister Anna Brown. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Today’s turnstile jumper might easily be wanted for yesterday’s murder. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He felt that his murder of her was more than amply justified by the fear and shame she had made him feel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Princess Elia of Dome pleading for mercy as Rhaegar's heir was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Up north in those beautiful mountains where both your mother and father were murdered! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paced back and forth across the linoleum floor, picking the red polish off her nails and talking an incoherent stream about a murder she’d heard about on the news and the traffic in Atlanta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence to adduce; and whether or not the man himself committed the murders there is now none to say. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Emmett’s death had been a surprise, just like Gramma’s had been, but his was a brutal murder, not a quiet slipping away in the middle of the night. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was so eerie, you might have thought that someone who had been murdered was shrieking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“About thirteen years ago, three people were murdered in your house. The Dorian family.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"However, I repeat, neither my partner nor I stole the notes. And if anyone here suspects us of murder, forget it, we both have airtight alibis." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible, for example, that O. J. Simpson was both framed by the police and guilty of murder. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They kidnapped three foreign aid workers and murdered them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to kill, he wanted to murder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As White examined probate records for many of the murder victims, it was evident that with each successive death, more and more headrights were being directed into the hands of one person—Mollie Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tony was charged as the shooter and had avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to felony murder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A flock of ravens is called a “murder,” and now I could see why. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t you be looking into the Eye Eater’s murder?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The guard appealed, and the Court reversed the verdict because the correctional officer had not been permitted to tell the jury that Trina was in prison for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The light in his eyes was like a green flame as he sped back to murder the hobbit and recover his ‘precious’. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think there’s enough doubt to make us wonder whether he was there at all during the time the murder took place. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll tell you we were lucky to get a murder case. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think drugs drove him to commit murder?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the early 1980s to the end of the decade, there was an almost 61 percent jump in the murder rate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Within moments, I would be face-to-face with one of the men who had murdered my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had also been charged with capital murder in the death of Ronda Morrison, and his refusal to continue cooperating with law enforcement meant that he was sent to death row, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why do we murder the spirits of our most gifted and talented young people? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had murdered his father, he had married his father’s wife, his own mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s not forget, we’re talking about a boy who always had murder on his mind. 12TH JUROR: His unconscious mind. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw Sahil open his mouth to verbally murder me, I hurried on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murdering with him disappeared—blown away like ashes in the wind.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Travelers to the village were rare, but occasionally a peddler would come through the village, selling "penny dreadful" accounts of grisly murders, fateful encounters, dire doings and remarkable escapes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"They were your quarrels first, sister. It was you who sent me that cursed letter, you who wrote that the Lannisters had murdered yobr husband." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relatives—my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Calder’s dad said he remembered hearing that Mrs. Sharpe’s husband had been murdered in Europe many decades ago, and that he had been doing research on Vermeer at the time of his death. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Buckley made no attempt to link Jan with the murder of Mary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Herr Becker was referring to the Nazis’ claim that the riots were an unplanned uprising in retaliation for the murder of a high-ranking Nazi official by a Jew. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The new murder cast a pall over the next two weeks, and the two Tests they brought with them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He acted as if I had just murdered somebody. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to be murdered,” Harry said out loud. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

News of the murder quickly reached Mollie and her family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We won't,” said the Twins, looking at the Starling as if they would like to murder him. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A boy was murdered just for acting cocky! Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby Joe Spencer, white, an effeminate youth, had confessed to murdering an elderly Kansas City woman, the owner of a rooming house where he lived. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them had been charged a year before with two counts of first-degree murder for separate shootings in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Some of them are in for making liquor or running it, but most of them are in for murder. They don’t think a whole lot about killing people up here.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As a raven he flew with the murder, circling the hill at sunset, watching for ' foes, feeling the icy touch of the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If you kill something that understands death, do you believe you have murdered?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They certainly don’t, have a problem watching children murdered every year. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of the murders had occurred within two days of a Test. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, the first murder—the farmer—seemed to have been so simple, a dropped stone falling to the lakebed with scarcely a ripple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lawmen went down to the creek, scouring the murder scene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before the murder of Day’s mother, I would’ve smiled at him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When he was little, my father played with her kids here. She was murdered right inside her apartment for trying to stop drug dealers from selling in this very park.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He looked so alive and happy in the picture, but since his photo was right under the headline, he must have been the murdered one. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Priests who criticized the Nazi Party were sent to prison or concentration camps or were murdered outright. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Fairfax town marshal also shared with agents a disturbing detail: around the time of Anna’s murder, he had found a dark stain on the backseat of Rose’s car. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That they were giving an award named after a beloved prime minister who had been tragically murdered by a deranged man to someone who represented people on death row revealed a lot about their values. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s possible Stalin ordered the murder himself, but that’s never been proved. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I, who belonged to a religion which taught that simply to be angry with another made one liable to the judgment of God and that to hate was the equivalent of murder. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are not trying her for the murder of her child; why don’t you? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the officer’s rank and experience, Alfons refused to believe that the Nazis would systematically murder people, and he told him so. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I felt that way, though the feeling seemed connected with the witnessing of the murder. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so loud and crazy with their cawing and flapping, he knew what it meant to be surrounded by a murder of crows. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Neither do I. He loves violence—so long as there’s no danger in it for himself—the way he loves whiskey. He’d join a mob to murder his own grandmother.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

While details about the incident are being withheld pending investigation, three men have been implicated in the matter, two of whom were already awaiting trial on murder charges. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Since I became his son’s Champion. So perhaps you ought to devote some additional resources to solving these murders, before I win this absurd competition just because I’m the last one left alive.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

How can a change in a handful of economic and social indices cause murder rates to fall by two-thirds in five years? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shoved thoughts of the murders aside as they strode past a fountain and she caught Dorian giving her an admiring glance from the corner of his eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had seen the devil Tenorio murder Narciso, and now there was no telling what he might do to avenge his daughter’s death. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many adults convicted of attempted murder in Florida serve less than ten years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Why wouldn’t I help Clara? She was murdered. She deserves to know what happened to her.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag him back!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"A council seat is not to be despised," Varys admitted, "yet will it be enough to make a proud man forget his sister's murder?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I am glad it was only a dream, because it sounded as if one of them was going to murder the other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At around the same time, records show that Cleopatra also acted alone when she arrested Roman soldiers responsible for murdering the sons of the new Roman governor of Syria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But they did not know, and during the hours the three sat conversing, the name Clutter was never mentioned, or the word murder. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her true language kept twirling into her head unannounced, replete with an arrogant dazzling laughter, boisterous, obscene, illiterate, tickling her mind on twinkle- toes of murder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had, I should hardly be likely to acquaint you with the fact. As a matter of fact I didn’t murder the fellow.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brutally murdering someone would, of course, require the State to hold that person accountable and to protect the public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, he had found a few pieces, enough to convince him that Jon had indeed been murdered, but that was no more than the spoor of an animal on the forest floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wes says, and then he glances at me nervously, which makes me wonder if Wes somehow found out that Russ’s parents were murdered. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her entire face flushed with color as she gazed at her alleged best friend with cold-blooded murder in her wide, rabid eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The DA initially threatened an attempted murder charge for what went down in the SUV with Kerns and me, but Dave’s lawyers were too good to let that stick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Baltimore City was now averaging over three hundred murders a year, making it one of the per capita deadliest cities in America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Still, unlike the invaluable headrights involved in the slaying of Mollie’s family members—or the $25,000 life-insurance policy in Roan’s death—none of these sums, especially if divided, represented a significant incentive for murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Car breaks down, they split up to find help, and a serial killer murders somebody,” Seven adds. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Welch told the folks gathered at the house that his niece had been murdered at Jackson Cleaners that morning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From there, the Jews would eventually be transported to concentration camps, where they were murdered. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I know Joey was thinking about what he should do if Chas jumped into the backseat and began murdering me on the spot. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although I did not know it at the time, grandchildren, all through the war many Japanese citizens were imprisoned or murdered because they spoke out against it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was Hamlet mad, I wondered, with his talk of ghosts and murder? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Capital murder requires an intent to kill, and there was a persuasive argument that there was no intent to kill in this case and that poor health care had caused the victim's death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Keep civil, my murdering mannie, or we will stab you at the King’s own feet!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his guilt wasn't really in question, there were persuasive reasons why this case should not have been a capital murder case, above and beyond the absence of a specific intent to kill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After the murders I was consumed by sadness for my brilliant and lovable twin, who had never been considered good enough, and would never be able to confront our parents as an adult. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Yes, he must have ordered her husband’s murder personally. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had murdered and had created a new life for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing that cop get away with murder probably made them think they’re invincible too.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You would not dare to use the Crochan against your own kinsmen, your own people. This is even more foul than treachery and murder!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When we are caught, you will be hanged for murder attempted and treason and I will be hanged for the theft of you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we began with our questions, she quickly confirmed that Myers had not known Walter before the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had only just understood who he was and why he was speaking when I was told he had been murdered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While he was in the hospital, he was served a warrant charging him with assault and battery with intent to murder a peace officer. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘All I hope is that those murdering devils do not come to this House and trouble the sick.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

No one was ever convicted of the murder. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was his duty to protect the Book. But he broke every vow he ever made. He and your mother murdered Director Edmon and stole the Book from us.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The preppy kid falls to the floor screaming bloody murder, and Kelton holds the gun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What does the murder of Liriope have to do with the coronation? The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Words fly from my mouth, just barely, like I’m turning myself in for a murder. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One year later there had been only one murder involving members of those seventy-five gangs—compared with between forty and fifty killings in each of the previous two years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"No! Real crimes. You know, robberies and murders." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I smile at her offenses, for they fall far short of deceit and murder and revenge, the crimes that went unconfessed at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mr. King's attorney wants to distance Mr. King from the murder by attacking the character of the State's witnesses. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you ?” “Every one of them,” Yossarian told him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was too calm, I thought, just like he was the night his dad was murdered. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you must return a verdict of Guilty of felony murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that murder was in the newspapers,” said the Prime Minister, momentarily diverted from his anger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“She told me what she would do if she had money. It was closer to murder than to charity.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So that was the secret behind the murder of the ambassador in the washroom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If the tales coming up the kingsroad could be believed, the King’s Hand had been murdered by his dwarf son whilst sitting on a privy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was normally blunt with the dead, but it felt unseemly to talk about Clara’s murder in such a matter-of-fact way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s the entire purpose of the club. We come here and discuss tales of murder and tragedy.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Thinking back later he could never decide whether the hands or Beatty's reaction to the hands gave him the final push toward murder. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the very same Chicago block, a white man was dragged from a truck and killed, and a black chauffeur was hauled from his car and murdered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I hear, Mademoiselle, that you were the last person to see the murdered man alive?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who wants to think a child can murder a man? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Can you really still be carrying around the murder weapon? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We murdered him,” she screamed, and I turned away because I had been through just about all I could stand. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Empire trains the Masks at Blackcliff—Masks like the one who murdered my family and stole my brother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The true history of the most baffling series of murders in the annals of crime,” a handbill for the show said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The sheriff had appeared with a warrant in hand. I found myself under suspicion of murder. It seemed to me best not to say anything. To wait until I . . . had a lawyer.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

While researching the murders, I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away, and not long after we spoke, I learned that Martha had died from heart failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The State's lawyer argued that this was a routine capital murder case and that the death penalty had been appropriately imposed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then, because I’ve seen way too many murder mysteries on TV with my mom, I whisper, “Am I going to die?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Someone in Ms. G’s class reminded us that “187” is the police code for murder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Noah, you’ve been accused of murder. You used witchcraft to kill David Kibuuka by causing him to be struck by lightning.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When that happened murder was on the way, but cool, deft murder, and hands that worked precisely, delicately. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, asked for his opinion of a rumor circulating about that a “Red Chinese” plot brought about the murder, Farmer said, “I would not say it is impossible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, from the bureau’s early reports on the case, White suspected that Blackie might have key information about the murders, and without consulting Hoover, White had him transported to Guthrie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Red Viper had even tried to defend the Imp, had come within a hairbreadth of a victory that would have allowed the dwarf to escape the blame for Joffrey’s murder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some said he had been murdered by Cossacks; for a time there was even a rumor that he had been converted to Christianity and had gone to live in France. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Did you that Jamaica has the sixth highest murder rate in the world?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I once thought I was capable of murdering him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben of the Builders, you’ve been sentenced to Banishment for the attempted murder of Thomas the Newbie. The Keepers have spoken, and their word ain’t changing. And you ain’t coming back. Ever.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“They can murder who they like, church who they like, but I’m not going. For me the war is over.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it all comes down to it, it would be murder to stay. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In The Origin, Charles wasn’t trying to murder Emma’s God; he was trying to show how he believed creation really occurred. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one can murder a phone call like my mother. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The children and young people, you are the unlucky ones. This war has murdered many futures. Are your parents still alive?” he asked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The idea of murdering Orr was so ridiculous that he began to consider it seriously with queer whimsy and fascination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They had no evidence that Westing was murdered, the judge said so. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, traditional New Guineans suffered high mortality from murder, chronic tribal warfare, accidents, and problems in procuring food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Manslaughter. He’ll be charged with manslaughter if he did not hurt her deliberately. But if they can prove otherwise—that he hurt her on purpose—he’ll be charged with murder.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s an odd place for a tryst, a hanging tree, where a man was hung for murder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he wanted to murder himself for doing something so terrible to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not once during this interview, now almost three hours old, had either of them mentioned murder—an omission that kept the prisoner edgy, expectant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after this Marat was murdered in his bath by an aggrieved young woman named Charlotte Corday, but by this time it was too late for Lavoisier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They get murdered for not getting on Craigslist fast enough and wasting my time.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The ghost of Hamlet’s dead father tells him to avenge his murder by killing his uncle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They wondered who the assassin was and how the killing was carried out: Was Vaughan murdered before he was thrown off the train, or did the impact kill him? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to murder you, you little four-eyed freak,” he yelled after me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was murdered when I was a teenager, but it didn't seem to matter much to the world outside our family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I tell him about crawling across the train in the night with a knife in my teeth and murder on my mind. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“That would be premeditated murder. Why didn’t you report the incident to Major Major?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

More often I don’t have the energy, and end up reading murder mysteries in the bathtub. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sisters will fall in battle with sisters, and will watch their children murder each other in their turn. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Blue as tyranny, and thrall, and murder waiting to happen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He stared numbly at Riddle, at the orphaned boy who had grown up to murder Harry’s own parents, and so many others. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Tried to murder him?” said my convict, disdainfully. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Morrison murder remained the focus of everyone's attention for months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How odd, I thought: it had taken my mothers death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me for me to claim a life of my own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There had been two thieves farther ahead who were planning to steal the boy’s sheep and murder him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, except for the laws against murder and stuff,” I blurt out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I was passed out cold while my family was murdered; it’s hard to fall more lowly than that.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She ran back home from the morgue to find the medicine bottle, to give it to a judge, to convict the physician who had murdered her husband. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Though convicted of a single slaying, the pair had claimed seven victims in the course of a cross-country murder spree. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what murder was—as easy as that! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Sam and Mom practically murder me, saying it’s all my fault. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Regibald was in the mood for murder, trying to pick a fight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What I’ve got to tell you is just this. There was a murder on the train last night, and the murderer was right there in my compartment!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the marks here matched the three she’d spotted at Xavier’s murder site, but there had to be some connection. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I fled across the street, I clutched onto my borrowed hat with both hands, knowing that Haskel would murder me if I destroyed it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes at me, gripping the bag like it was evidence in a murder trial. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"You are accused of sending a hired knife to slay my son Bran in his bed, and of conspiring to murder Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I notice he’s avoiding looking at Tonni, on account of her being about ready to commit murder with her eyeballs and all. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“For those of you who don’t know,” Leroy went on, “I’m talking about the murder of your brother and mine, Bobby Hutton, during a raid by the Oakland Police on the Black Panthers’ Oakland headquarters.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Diallo’s murder sparked huge protests, resulting in a series of studies commissioned by the attorney general of New York. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d assumed he was in for murder, for squashing a family to death with his bare hands, but it wasn’t anything like that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So he’s made himself impossible to kill by murdering other people?” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She reached out and grabbed Tino, who was closing in on the Lake Windsor fullback with murder in his eyes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, after several calls and hours of conversation, he claimed to know where the murder weapon, which had never been recovered, might be located. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The only problem is that Boy21’s parents were murdered and I know that I should be helping him, because he’s suffering. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I still believe the boy is guilty of murder. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen years ago, my older sister was murdered. She was only sixteen years old.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city’s newspapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We don’t bust, yet they blame us for murder” brings on news clips from when that boy was killed last year. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were no receipts from any sort of shop where a murder weapon had been newly purchased; there were no journal entries or overheard phone calls or late-night conversations. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the other telling, she’s the jealous maniac who murders Maryam and decides to kill herself when the son insults her pride with a proposal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ishmael found himself sitting in the courtroom where Hatsue’s husband was on trial for murder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tison will be retried on the murder count and sentenced on all convictions at a later date. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The question asked,” Church reminded him, “was whether you’d heard of the Clutter murders.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my prisoner. Name’s Dexter; wanted for murder.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 5, 1968, just sixty-two days after Dr. King’s murder, Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We used the proceeds to pay admission to the King’s cinema, on First Avenue, where our appetite for bloody murder movies would be satisfied by a Western or gladiator or secret agent movie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That can hardly be considered murder. It was an accident. If anything, it was your uncle’s fault.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If you had heard me shrieking, you would have thought someone was being murdered too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"He's more use alive than dead. And my lord father never condoned the murder of prisoners after a battle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Authorities never prosecuted anyone for Stepson’s murder, but they came to believe that Kelsie Morrison—the man who had killed Anna Brown—was responsible. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Black would come by and tell me that my father was down at the precinct, arrested for attempted murder or something like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The conversation with Red Corn, though, prompted me to probe more deeply into perhaps the most puzzling of the Osage murder cases—that of Charles Whitehorn. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My proximity to this murdered boy could be measured in the lives of people I knew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Used her imminent arrival and feeble attempt at murder as an exercise of his will against hers— an ultimatum to the universe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The initial charge was fraud, but Swango was suspected of being a serial killer who murdered hospital patients through the administration of lethal doses of drugs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count of capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"He burned down a holdfast and murdered a lot of people, women and children too." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I refer to the plan Lord Voldemort is revolving around me. His plan to have the poor Malfoy boy murder me.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of white veterans, recently returned from fighting in Europe, having been told that a conspiracy to murder white planters had begun, joined the posse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually Dr. Swango pled guilty to four murders, but investigators believed he had committed many more. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She’d been murdered in an iridescent green gown jeweled with jade and beetle wings, and she’d looked enough like Sarai that the visions of her body were like seeing a prophecy of her own death. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he had to see if there were any black people murdered by someone other than their own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That phony curse was just a way of covering her tracks in advance of murdering those ladies herself. Believe me, I know how she operates. She says one thing when she means another.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She said bad people had murdered him, but he came back to life after three days. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at 2:00 P.M. today my brother will be given a verdict in his own murder trial. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to remove myself from this property until James Daley is arrested for the murder of my friend.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I want to say to you that the murder of Emmett Till was a cowardly act and a brutal and unnecessary killing of a human being. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Police tracked them down in Florida and determined that the two men could not have committed the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These crimes included the torture and murder of twelve million people—six million Jews and six million non-Jews who were deemed enemies of the Reich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By February 1922, nine months after the murders of Whitehorn and Anna Brown, the investigations into the cases seemed to have reached a permanent impasse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An innocent young man is now a criminal mind, having nightmares of murders every single time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And still there had been more murders after this, three more, less difficult than the first had been but murders nonetheless. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here he was sitting with them and they did not know that he had murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In the opinion of this court, there is not enough evidence to charge Officer Moore with excessive force, manslaughter, or murder.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

It was whispered that the king had been murdered as he slept and the false traitor had fled to Norway. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, and perhaps I will forgive you for threatening to murder me.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But really, after what we’d just seen in that palace: wife murdering and slave bones in the walls! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s only one murder and one dead lizard.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then Davis and several conspirators proceeded to rob—and murder—a prominent attorney; this time, Davis received a life sentence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now he began to believe, for the first time, that he had a murder on his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Butterflies, they were ambushed and murdered on a lonely mountain road, their car thrown over a cliff to make it all look like an accident. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had called to the witness box the county sheriff and the county coroner, the murdered man’s mother and the bent-over Swede from whom the murdered man had planned to buy his father’s old farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He suggested the murder suspect be arrested again, and this time held indefinitely. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And finally, the jealousy turned to full-blown murder stomping about my guts when I saw them dance, hand in hand, around the circle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

What if he did fall over and yell bloody murder every time I looked crossways at him? Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest would be shipped to concentration camps, where they were murdered. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last time Adah and I spied down there we heard the radio shrieking bloody murder, and for once we actually got to see him answer it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My murdered son of a few hours ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jury was shown the murder weapon and heard testimony from the store owner who sold it to Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They frowned on murder as a means of harvest; on the other hand, they made little effort to explore the provenance of any one body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"This man came a guest into my house, and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of seven," she proclaimed to the room at large, pointing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Then it is just another act. You are losing it, boy. You must be forgetting this is New York City. Random murder and violence.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still looked like she wanted to murder him, which made him nervous. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That would be a comical murder, and a murder no one under any circumstances could solve or even suspect. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kennedy had a reputation as a hanging judge, having sent a group of twenty-three Africans to the gallows for the murder of two white policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just let’s remember we’ve got a first degree murder charge here. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is he looking up what Jesus might have to say about preachers that murder their own daughters? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myers told us that her murder had everything to do with drug debts and threats she had made to expose corruption. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even when people are charged with extremely serious crimes, such as murder, they may find themselves languishing in jail for years without meeting with an attorney, much less getting a trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The informant was asked if he had any information regarding the murder of Vaughan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To have them show up at the murder scene meant something. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I murdered the last of the Scyldings, what would I live for ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Killing, ice-pick-wielding Hagar, who, shortly after a Christmas thank-you note, found herself each month searching the barrels and cupboards and basement shelves for some comfortably portable weapon with which to murder her true love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the darkness hummed with murder: the body in the water, the body in the fire, the body on the tree. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not only could I not prove I hadn’t stolen the car, I couldn’t prove I hadn’t murdered someone for it, either. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

How this connected to the Champion murders was beyond her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Along the way, the dead emperor's executors, four high-ranking nobles, schemed to depose and murder Washkar and install yet another son in his place. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She knew there was murder in him, and it was all right; she had accepted it, and she would not resist or even protest. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morrison promised to visit Rose Osage and Joe Allen as well as members of the underworld, to see what he could learn about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Did he have any theories about the murders? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

To keep blacks “in their place,” Klan tactics ranged from stealing black farmers’ horses, to threats of violence, to floggings, to outright murder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But the corpse returns and raids our homes! We find our daughters murdered and burnt! And we say, ‘Kill! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This woman had had a crush on him since she was a teenager, long before he committed the murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one who was murdered, I guessed, and it was odd to think of a young boy murdered. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He tried to wrangle for more favorable treatment but decided that there was no punishment he was willing to accept for a murder he hadn't committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He did not reveal that Blackie Thompson had escaped under the bureau’s watch and killed a policeman, or that because of so many false starts in the probe other murders had occurred. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Will anyone ever know the truth about how I was murdered? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Take notice, guard,—he tried to murder me,” were his first words. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had to do with the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There hasn’t been a murder in our city as long as I’ve been alive. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He hid out for two weeks, and when he finally did return, murder had sunk back to simple anger and he paid his penalty in overwork and a false theatrical humility. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within these voluminous files, I hoped to find a clue regarding the murder of W. W. Vaughan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Easy to do a murder with a knife like that. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the expedition’s doctor was murdered in a misunderstanding over a woman. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A local historian later ventured that the Osage murder trials received more media coverage than the previous year’s Scopes “monkey trial,” in Tennessee, regarding the legality of teaching evolution in a state-funded school. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you understand that you are being charged with murder in the second degree in that you did feloniously and with malice aforethought kill and murder Benjamin DiAngelo?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

These are the types of boys back home, maybe a year older than I am, who make it their primary interest in life to torture or, if I’m lucky, murder me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This is where the bulk of the city’s murders happen—two-thirds of them, in 2013. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was not the behavior of someone who planned to murder you later. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the scene, their slow and deliberate gathering actions, broke apart insanely as the two men began to pelt Linda and the five children in deadly earnest, aiming their rocks, trying to murder them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ophie did not know how to get the ghost to leave the girl, and clearly the realization about her murder had only made her stronger. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

According to most historical accounts, the Osage Reign of Terror spanned from the spring of 1921, when Hale had Anna Brown murdered, to January 1926, when Hale was arrested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One student in the back row shouted, “There can be no school while our brothers and sisters are being murdered in Soweto!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But for now let’s just keep this murder talk in the family. We can trust each other, but something is wrong and I’m not sure why.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He never mentioned his first wife, or his murdered sons and daughters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe robots rise up and murder us all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Everybody in the ’hood heard the same story about how Eric Morse was murdered. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time, torches had burned all along the tunnel, and the eyes of starving men had peered down through the murder holes in the ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Because of my mother’s miraculous recovery, the charge was only attempted murder. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of Hale’s lawyers now asked Ernest if he’d pleaded guilty to murdering his wife’s sister by blowing up her house while she was inside. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“And murder. The Sons of the Harpy slew thirty in the night.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To make it clear—were you, in any way, involved with the holdup and murder that occurred on the 22nd of December? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man is the fifth or sixth driver murdered in the last two months. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a little after eight o’clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if Dad and I were going to murder nature’s tame pet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The official verdict was murder, but no murderer was ever found, and the evidence was also consistent with suicide. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Even the Kingslayer would flinch at the murder of an innocent child." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I try not to think of it as murder, although it was, but as some kind of accident, like an exploding train. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Does that mean murder?" he asked the heir on his right. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Puritan? You mean a Roundhead? One of those traitors who murdered King Charles?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Susan Smith's effort to blame random black men for the death of her children in South Carolina before later admitting to murdering them fascinated crime-obsessed Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Watching them sit there playing with their sons, reading the paper, smoking, or drinking a Coke, I never would have guessed they were on trial for murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That left me no choice but to murder him be-fore the weekend, I retorted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the old men on Tenth Street, now he bought the morning and evening papers, and once every two weeks the black newspaper, and read nervously, looking for reports of murders that appeared suspicious, pointless. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not discount the actor, good sir, for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

No major organs were hit, and Ray left the hospital a day later, so Wes was charged with attempted murder rather than murder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“She asked me to call you and let you know that the police have arrested her for murder—they say she killed all those old ladies.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

War, vengeance, murder—all the themes on which the tale was strung—were so removed from modern reality, few could relate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Take a look: Cora claimed Frank planned the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had committed murder twice and had created a new world for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That had already started — El Diario was about the only newspaper still covering the murder investigation. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Did this happen before or after Orestes had been absolved of the guilt of his mother’s murder? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is he? He’s fine. He’s just tip top. I could just murder him, that’s all.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the anniversary of my mother’s murder, just like every other year, Dad, Pop, and I lay flowers on her grave—Cathy McManus. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most important testimony, the reason we're here, is the Medical Examiner's statement that a murder was committed. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After the murder of Eric Morse, the Illinois legislature made a new law saying that children as young as ten could be locked up in youth prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These cases underscored that the murders of the Osage for their headrights were not the result of a single conspiracy orchestrated by Hale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to tell you a murder story, and your job is just to listen.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like, Bloody Miles trying to murder me scary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"She believes she has good reason. When I was her guest in the Eyrie, she insisted that I'd murdered her husband, and wa? not inclined to listen to denials." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They are connected in this way, Madame, the man who was murdered was the man responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Mrs. Armstrong’s child.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a story about the murder of a New York City public school teacher, Jonathan Levin, by one or two former students who wanted money. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By sitting back while they’re murdered and starved? By loading them on trains to be...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just before the opening of his murder trial, Jackson was shot and killed by a tower guard at San Quentin, where he had been transferred. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at Quentin and me with murder in their eyes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was saying, ‘To be murdered. To be murdered. No. No. There’s nothing worse. Nothing worse than that. Nothing.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jury was unable to reach a consensus regarding the felony murder charge, and a mistrial was declared on that count. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If you will remember, in my childhood I had been exposed to the Black Nationalist teachings of Marcus Garvey—which, in fact, I had been told had led to my father’s murder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have stood there for a while, considering the cutaway road and the perfect metaphor it was, if a murder of black crows hadn’t shown up, cawing their stupid heads off. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Last I heard, no one ever died of humiliation. But if Chacho’s moved, it will be murder. I can’t allow it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He first accused a black man with a bad reputation named Isaac Dailey, but the police quickly discovered that Dailey had been in a jail cell on the night of the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

George was arrested and charged with capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Preliminary hearings,” she says, “don’t determine innocence or guilt. They determine whether there is enough evidence for a trial. Whether Officer Moore should be charged with murder.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Toby kicked a pinecone across the clearing, looking like he was about to confess to a murder. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the last week of July 1926, as the summer heat reached infernal temperatures, the trial of Hale and Ramsey for the murder of Henry Roan began at the redbrick courthouse in Guthrie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was possessed of that cold, cruel sense of purpose that preceded murder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had died a decade earlier in 1936—he had been murdered following a dispute over mica mines—leaving my grandmother to raise five young boys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me that you were almost murdered by the Erudite ... and then fought your way into the Dauntless compound... and destroyed the simulation?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what he knew, if Circe ever told him. I never saw him after the murder. None of us did.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jury was also hung when Bryan Burkhart was tried for the murder of Anna Brown. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You know that the Bureau is responsible for the murders of hundreds of people, and your plan is to . . . take away their memory serum?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And the premise that allows for these killing fields—the reduction of the black body—is no different than the premise that allowed for the murder of Prince Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This was it, I thought, I was about to be murdered. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But since Anna’s murder Bill had, by all appearances, vigorously sought to discover who the culprit was. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She stopped entertaining guests or attending church; it was as if the murders had shattered even her faith in God. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Whilst I am detailing bloody deeds which took place during my stay on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, I will briefly narrate another, which occurred about the same time as the murder of Demby by Mr. Gore. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because I loved a boy once, and he was murdered, and I’m afraid that will happen to me again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How was he supposed to act normal in a town that murdered pigeons? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It concerned murder, the slaying of a Florida family, a Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker, their four-year-old son, and their two-year-old daughter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, not literally murder me, but they'd go mental. It's like...my greatest fear.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is one of three things the defendant hasn’t counted on—the body itself, the bloody fishing gaff, and the mooring line he’d left behind in his haste to leave this scene of murder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because she’d had a lot of time to think about who could have possibly murdered her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Nazis suppressed the information, but it proved difficult to keep the mass murders a secret. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow it is going to be two months since my cousin was murdered and my parents left the country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The judge said it was a criminal offense to conceal a murder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every one of them we murdered they would murder two of us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Being hated on the one hand and despised on the other, he was plotted against and murdered. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

After initially denying any direct involvement in the Pittman murder, Myers conceded that he may have played some accidental role but quickly put the blame for the murder itself on more interesting local figures. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Right, so what do they think? Do they think you murdered me and put me down the garbage disposer or something? Or maybe I'm locked in a closet? Come on, Mom. Get real." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly — I’ve seen corpses with better color. I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They have heard stories of bands of young men who will look for them to beat up or murder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

People couldn't conceive of a child being capable of murder. Allegedly 2017-01-24T00:00:00Z

Then her son Alfred called from prison, saying he’d finally be going on trial right after the conference, and the charges now included armed robbery and attempted murder. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If you ever play ‘Baby’ again, I’ll murder you,” I say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The person they interviewed at Holman prison is not the same person arrested by Sheriff Tate for this murder,” Chapman explained. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And it soon became clear that the state’s special investigator in charge of solving the Osage murder cases was himself a crook. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Bobby denied the very existence of Auschwitz, refusing to acknowledge that more than one million people had been murdered there, Laszlo told him about relatives who’d been exterminated in concentration camps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Repeat killers tend to rigidly adhere to a routine, yet the Osage murders were carried out in a bewildering array of methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence, repeating it to his “precious” over and over again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost believed it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In its smooth bowl he had etched with a penknife, For my little Minou, at the end of a great adventure, then the date he was murdered, December 21, 1963. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not wrong to condemn Hamlet’s vengeance, for murder is no godly deed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As a child, I witnessed the unthinkable: I saw my sister murdered before my eyes because of discrimination and hate. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

In some of those pyramids, the Sons of the Harpy are plotting new murders even now, and I am powerless to stop them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few days after Teacher Sarah was murdered, we all woke up to what sounded like a bomb exploding in the yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A witness had overheard Hale talking to Grammer before the murders, murmuring something about being ready for “that Indian deal.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So, what may I help you find today, ma’am? We have murder mysteries, romance novels, how-to makeup books, how-to hair books,” she pauses, jerks out a smile, “rose gardening, home decorating—” “I’m just browsing, thanks.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Local papers had painted Walter as a dangerous drug dealer who had possibly murdered several innocent teenagers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The AT had no murders in its first thirty-six years and nine in the past twenty-two. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he had good reason to, for not only had he known the murdered family, he knew very well who had murdered them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even by the grim standards of Russian assassinations, the violence of this murder was a testimony to the visceral hatred that he had inspired in his enemies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knew in my heart that goodness had been murdered and that a reign of evil had begun at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the alliance refused to submit, US forces destroyed Indigenous villages and fields and murdered women, children, and elders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The trick in killing Secretary of State Seward, Booth reminds Powell, isn’t the actual murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. Mr. Kirwin is a magistrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one to whom he had anything to say, for he had never given himself whole-heartedly to anyone or anything, except murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some Western states even find glory in half-forgotten murders and bank robberies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent time in jail and been accused of murder, yet he was such a brilliant actor that every time he appeared on stage, the audiences would go wild. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If you ask me, he thinks murdering Harry will bring You-Know-Who back to power. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rosa Vaughan’s suit against Burt, who was represented by one of the same law firms that had represented Hale in the murder trials, was initially dismissed in state court. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They do not kill people on their Farms: they let hunger and winter and despair do their murders for them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is a simple issue of law: Two men murdered a child. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

No trumpets announced the foe: vassals, servants, friends, brothers, sons, even wives, any of them might have knives concealed beneath their cloaks and murder hidden in their hearts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Phoebe said, “If Mrs. Cadaver didn’t kidnap or murder my mother, then where is she? What can I do? Where should I look?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I see the fearsome face of Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, who murdered his father and married his mother, my dear queen Gertrude, whom he poisoned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In support of his claim, he offered an exhaustive study of more than two thousand murder cases in Georgia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Charles Whitehorn’s widow said she was sure that the same parties who had murdered her husband would soon “do away with her.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The times I do sleep, I have nightmares about people trying to murder me in an upside-down house or something equally weird. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t give R.C. and those two other men the right to murder him.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And it’s a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

George was immediately arrested for the murders because he had admitted seeing the girls before they disappeared and was the last person to see them alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At least one of my sisters is about to get murdered. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The charge against Guiteau was the intentional, premeditated murder of James Garfield with a pistol and lead bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The murder plots depended upon doctors who falsified death certificates and upon undertakers who quickly and quietly buried bodies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I think he saw a Black man being charged with murder, and saw no reason to believe he was actually innocent,” Grandma explained. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Had the Republic murdered relatives of my Drake classmates too, all those people who died in combat or in accidents or of illnesses? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked like exactly the kind of detective I wanted to have working on the case of my murdered parents. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But no one will understand my sorrow at Thresh's murder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In places like Osage County, where there was no coroner trained in forensics and no crime laboratory, poisoning was a perfect way to commit murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The understandable anger about the death of the girls exploded when word circulated that a black boy had been arrested for the murders. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This second witness gave law enforcement officials what they needed to charge Walter McMillian with capital murder in the shooting death of Ronda Morrison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so the murder weapons on the walls aren’t suspicious at all?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Morrison’s former wife, Cole—who said she hadn’t come forward right after the murder because Morrison had threatened to “stomp me to death”—corroborated his account. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We must be careful, my friend, to give no offence. These people can have nothing to do with the murder.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe polished off his beer, hoisted up the rifle, and said “I’ll see you around” as he kicked open the kitchen door and staggered out, murder humming through his blood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Revealing my identity to the world so that I could accuse one of the world’s most powerful corporations of blackmail and murder didn’t seem like the smartest move. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Comstock—the attorney and guardian who, despite Hoover’s initial suspicions, had proven to be trustworthy—had also tried to assist the private detectives investigating the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As the front of the American eugenics movement advanced from imprisonment to sterilization to outright murder, European eugenicists watched the escalation with a mix of eagerness and envy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No way I can admit I was at the murder scene and left. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I will not be part of murder, Robert. Do as you will, but do not ask me to fix my seal to it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was like the three of them were locked together, acting out some kind of murder mystery, but they hadn’t yet discovered which of them was the victim. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You turning him into a monster is just the same as murdering him, Jane.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Myers insisted that there were other people besides him and Kelly involved in the Pittman murder, including a corrupt local sheriff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But am I to take it, then, that nobody has been murdered?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and Rollerblade. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She still had no idea how to get Clara out of Penelope’s body, but maybe if she could solve Clara’s murder, then she could help the spirit pass on, releasing Penelope from the possession. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was me, standing at the side of the road with my murdered man’s bicycle, waiting well back from the Merc with my head down and wearing one of Maman Thibaut’s motherly kerchiefs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How would it be to murder her with kindness? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But what the hell does that have to do with him getting murdered? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“What they don’t want you to know,” Ms. Ofrah says, “is that Khalil was unarmed at the time of his murder.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Winnie subsequently became legally entangled in the trial of one of her bodyguards who was convicted of murdering a young comrade. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a murder occurred on Indian territory, then the federal authorities could claim jurisdiction. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen,” he breathed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Because once there was an admission of guilt, a murder became an execution. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the symptoms of mono include reacting to things that aren’t there, screaming for no reason at all, and flailing on the ground like you’re about to be ax murdered.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Had he found the evil proof on his own, or was he sent by Claudius to destroy the evidence of the foul murder? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I think she wasn’t kidding this morning when she said she wanted to go night surfing. Yes, I’m serious. I’m totally going to murder her.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Diary of a Red Army Woman, the fictional pilot Tania is furious about the German army’s destruction of her village and the murder of her family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her father was a church deacon and he believed the injunction “till death do you part” to be as inviolable as “Thou shalt not murder.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Vaughan informed his wife, who had recently given birth to their tenth child, about a hiding spot where he had stashed evidence that he had been gathering on the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Matthew Brady, who had photographed Lincoln many times, now photographed the scene of his murder. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You spoke of the murder of Dain’s unborn child,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was the widow of a murder victim. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If a teacher stared murder at me for forty-eight minutes, I’d turn into a puddle of melted Jell-O. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The man who was killed last night was the man responsible for the murder of Colonel Armstrong’s child.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were tripping, throwing elbows, getting away with murder back there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could look into any muggings or murders in Central Park yesterday around 5:40 p.m., when the feed stopped, but for my sanity this is better left a mystery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, the thing is, Medea was so distraught by the world, and felt so betrayed, that she murdered her own kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been convicted of the very disturbing and brutal murder of an older man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That there had been no murders in the Superdome, no deaths in the Convention Center. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But for my twin who now teaches school and murders tree trunks I have heard various words applied by our neighbors, none with much fondness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Xenocrates had tried to pin Faraday’s murder on her, and how Scythe Curie had helped her get to him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She has been alone since soldiers murdered her husband. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the case came to trial, Goetz was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother’s murder, could be made clean again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you I would help you solve your murder. But you have to help me. Please, tell me what you remembered just a moment ago, when we were speaking.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The other man didn't match the eyewitness descriptions of the person seen leaving the cleaners, and he didn't have our caller's history of stalking, violence against women, and preoccupation with the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The maid let out a shriek that brought a dozen people running to see who was being murdered. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

One: the evidence given by the woman across the street who actually saw the murder committed. 3RD JUROR: And how, brother! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, White learned that Hollywood was about to shoot a movie, The FBI Story, starring James Stewart as a crime-busting agent, that would feature a segment on the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And he was planning more murders — this boy, Harry Potter, whoever he was — was in danger — Frank knew what he must do. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There are plenty of the Folk who delight in murder and plenty more who delight in spectacle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in fact, murdering innocent people and burning their homes and fields requires very little courage or sacrifice. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am representing the people in this matter, which you were informed during jury selection is a case of felony murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what has become of me,” the Queen whispered, “for ordering the murder of my own child.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just like the old women who’d surrounded her bed, despairing of their inability to murder her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We were talking about the other wand, the wand that changes hands by murder. When You-Know-Who realized my wand had done something strange, he came back and asked about that other wand, didn’t he?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Horse was not going to commit murder. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having returned to her spot on the grassy knoll, Ruby Archuleta said cheerfully, “This game is called on account of attempted murder.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“From Customs examination, yes. But a murder is different.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm working through a couple of scenarios, one of them involving rat poison and soup, even though poison is a cowardly way to murder a man, when I stop short. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And yes, he told the reporters, he did have an opinion on whether the murders were the work of one man or two, but he preferred not to disclose it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day Elsbeth came over to play, the mouse appeared by her chair, and she screamed bloody murder. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He also began to be feared even by those he kept around him, so that a centurion murdered him in the midst of his army. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There is a fragile peace between the gentlemen who were willing to kill us by starvation, and us commoners who were ready to murder them in their beds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one time he screamed bloody murder in her backyard because a bird had pooped on his head, and she came flying out faster than he knew she could run. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When someone speaks to him, he answers politely and gently, his mind far away—on murdered thanes, abandoned hopes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of them are at Garden Heights High doing a roundtable discussion. Others are leading a march on Carnation where Khalil was murdered.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She asked herself, “Would a goddess command such things? Would she take pleasure in sacrificial murder? I do not believe it,” she told herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers adored running the machine and begged to take a turn, but you had to watch them—they were murder on the crank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In my heart I’d hoped for manslaughter, and hearing the word murder sent a frozen rod piercing right through the top of my head down into my toes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the day a committee of men decided to murder the fledgling Congo, what do you suppose Mama Mwanza was doing? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only by chance that Burger wasn't murdered in what was later known as the "Night of the Long Knives." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You have a lot of Abnegation leaders to murder, after all.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The young bucks here, I know, lie in wait for him in a cutter, bent on murdering him before he reaches home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Milez, I’m sorry, but she murdered you in a couple of bars,” Hype says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But, after he murdered, he accepted the crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lately the word murder has been a shadow hovering over my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Are you struggling to come to terms with your father’s murder? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And I’m not sure I want to get involved with murders and dead lizards and stuff. I don’t know if my parents would like it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The job of murdering Secretary of State Seward will be a two-man affair, with Lewis Powell and David Herold working together. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And you’re not at all concerned that so many Champions have been brutally murdered at the hands of someone’s feral beast?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if Chaol sorted through the mess of that murder.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Marvin Stepson, who had spent years researching what had happened to his grandparents, told me, “Kelsie murdered them both, and left my father an orphan.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Pearson stood up and said that due to the extraordinary pretrial coverage of the Morrison murder, he agreed that the trial should be moved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In 1919, Middleton was convicted of murder and condemned to die. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just what would a murdered girl do when she had a body to do as she pleased? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And why had the murder been covered up? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re not supposed to go there at all, yet. They’re still not letting us play outside because of the murder and everything. But my folks are weakening, I think.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we learned that Hershel had indeed made it back to Narewka, only to be taken prisoner and murdered by the SS assassins on that terrible day in August. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But, as with many crimes against American Indians, the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders was confounding. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say that love, ambition, jealousy, the quest for adventure, or any of the more romantic feelings were back of these two murders. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On October 13, 1994, a little boy was murdered in the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bobby believed, they said, that the Soviets were so enraged by his winning the crown from Spassky and thereby diminishing their greatest cultural achievement that they wanted him murdered. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They die, yes. But murder is a little more rare.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year later, when Anna Brown’s murder was prosecuted, Mollie attended the trial. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The goon hadn’t murdered Lice Peeking, as Shelly had thought, but he had scared the bodily fluids out of him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s office said that an additional charge of murder will be made since the turn of events. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The people would come to commit murder on it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep your eye on the underlined words—those are the wolves being singled out of the pack: • Only the butler says he saw the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also mentioned that at a library in New Mexico I had come across notes from an unpublished interview with the Fairfax town marshal, who had investigated the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Later she said it was three kicks for three murders, and told of Lovey, Caesar, and Jasper to let them live briefly again in her words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It was found by the body of the murdered man.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But like violent crime in general, the murder rate cannot explain the growth of the penal apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rebels who usurped Prospero’s kingdom and who want to murder him and his daughter.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I told them each the inexpressibly horrible news that our mother and father were dead, and that it was possible they’d been murdered. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

One late Friday evening when I was nearing the end of my tenth year an event occurred that precipitated the greatest crisis of my childhood: I was an eyewitness to a murder. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the first twelve blacks who were tried were found guilty of murder and executed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But still the men burst in as if he were in the process of committing a murder. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It sank in that she was seeing a vision of the murders she had averted, and whatever shame she might have felt at Minya’s tirade earlier, she didn’t feel it anymore. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That when the arena was cleared and the people had gone home, when the tigers were back in their cages, Caesar could send some agent to seek Julius out and murder him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now, by offering Booth his hospitality, he had unknowingly made himself an accomplice in the most shocking crime in all of American history—the murder of the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways the article stirred up more emotion across the United States than the murder had. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My whole attitude was, it really didn’t matter,” she had told me of the murder and conviction, which she considered one-of-a-kind occurrences brought about by a fluky convergence of factors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seen he had been murdered,” the deputy later recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The murder of a child by a parent is horrific and is usually complicated by serious mental illness, as in the Yates and Smith cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Forced back to South Central, blocks from where his brother was murdered, Antonio struggled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hard physical labor in a space suit is murder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1922, he had been charged with murdering a fisherman but was acquitted after claiming that the fisherman had first come at him with a knife. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

White explained that they had talked to a man named Burt Lawson in the pen, who said differently—said that Burkhart knew a good deal about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Percy yelled as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty serious, though. My guess is that your friends will be charged with manslaughter—maybe even second-degree murder.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She did not truly believe the accounts of untethered mayhem, but she knew that some murders would have occurred. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My ancestor's desire to join them led to trumped-up murder charges for which he was executed—or, anyway, that’s what my grandfather told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Between rumors about Martin having been murdered and the weather, the town went into lockdown much as the children’s home had. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It had slipped from Isildur’s hand and betrayed him; then when a chance came it caught poor Déagol, and he was murdered; and after that Gollum, and it had devoured him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At his new trial, a racially diverse jury found him not guilty of murder, and he was freed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If only someone hadn’t murdered the pigeon,” Bronwyn said, staring bitterly at Miss Peregrine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Say what you like, but you can’t convince me that a jury box of poverty-level Vermonters would have the remotest bit of pity for four college students on trial for murdering one of their neighbors.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe God will forgive me for committing suicide to avoid being murdered? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine isolating a gene for murder, or cowardice, or dishonesty. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lauren glared at Maya, and even though both Bob and Diane laughed, Grace could tell that they sort of wanted to murder Maya with their eyes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t told him about Cain revealing that he knew who she really was, or the possible murder connection to the Wyrdmarks—not yet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself. You did not kill the butcher's boy. That murder lies at the Hound's door, him and the cmel woman he serves." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We become like detectives trying to solve a murder, because maybe if we uncover the clues, it gives us some control. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some folks swore she was a witch; a few misguided harpies insinuated she had poisoned or otherwise murdered the three husbands who had died on her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d also known of at least another dozen showdowns in which one took the Dead On Arrival ride to the morgue, and the other went to prison for manslaughter or the electric chair for murder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, Rowdy would have absolutely murdered anybody who dared to laugh at him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His lawyers did no investigation of Mr. Jenkins's history prior to trial, and he was quickly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In church the adults kept saying Reverend King would eventually be driven out of Montgomery or they’d murder him, since whites would never give in. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The most ruthless of the murder addicts was Av’s sister Lois, then just back from teaching for a year in Karachi, and a firm proponent of the hypocrisy of Indian vegetable eaters. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But she was crushed by the news of Lotho’s murder, and she would not return to Bag End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She would have screamed, she would have screamed bloody murder and never stopped screaming, but the man opened his fist and showed her a handful of white baneberry, white berries with black dots. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hale had remained close with the county prosecutor and conferred with him and other officials about Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Right now, his focus was on solving the murders of the Champions, and on making sure Celaena won. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jack learned that most kapos had been in German prisons before the war for such crimes as murder or theft. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only no way was I staying all by myself in the hallway if there was someone being murdered in our bathroom, which is what it sounded like, what with all the screaming and everything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You would have thought that Bill had committed murder,” his brother Max said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tate still had not investigated McMillian himself, his life or background, or even his whereabouts on the day of the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They all hold idiotic signs that say things like Abortion is murder and Mommy, why do you want to kill me? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For Hoover, the Osage murder investigation became a showcase for the modern bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If she were Armstrong intent on murder, it was cunning that she would employ, not force. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, it dawns on one very drunk George Atzerodt that the plan has shifted from kidnapping to murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the community of Boston was shattered by the most sensational murder trial of his generation, Paul Revere was chosen foreman of the jury. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Is it possible that ordinary German people did not know about the systematic murder of millions of people? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That year I felt myself to be drowning in the news reports of murder. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In a church basement, Walter's sister found flyers advertising the fish fry held at Walter’s house; they confirmed that the event had taken place on the same day as the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My old friend Pascal and two other former students of Anatole’s were murdered by the army on the road south of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never had he had the chance to live out the consequences of his actions; never had his will been so free as in this night and day of fear and murder and flight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And even though Coach is talking about the aftereffects of a murder, I’m ashamed to admit that I immediately begin worrying about my starting position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not have thought so, but once he would not have thought Robert could command the murder of women and children either. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Valerian tried to murder me outright. Twice. First in the tower, then in my room at my house.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So if you had a beef with the guy who got killed, someone will accuse you of murder and the police will come knocking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mind plays back images of my parents’ and sister’s murders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had mentioned Xavier’s murder, and she’d gleaned no more information about it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A bonfire that burns too hot, or a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong, or a boy-with-a-girl’s-figure getting murdered in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As I made my way toward the tennis courts, however, I saw a man being robbed and murdered, in broad daylight, by a gang of tsotsis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was charged with capital murder and wrongfully imprisoned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The decision was being hailed as momentous, even though murders take place every day. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear to God, if they don’t stop encouraging this, I will murder them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Herbert was advised to deny any culpability but ultimately argued that this was reckless murder, not capital murder, which could be punished with life imprisonment but not the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His father looked on and never commented on that, but now suddenly, Joe had the uneasy sensation that his father had disapproved of such wanton murder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the courtyard, thinking the cops are going to come in through the breezeways and arrest all of us for murder. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He most certainly did not want to murder God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Digger was right about the murder charge? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

To murder at the top of the highest tower... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, on May 10, 2004, the Justice Department reopened the investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, and his body was exhumed, identified, and examined. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He confirmed that the work had been done over six months after Ronda Morrison was murdered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You’ve murdered a human being. They are going to put you in jail. They might even hang you!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next thing we knew, Proud was back, and we got a letter asking for cattle to pay for a murder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she herself said that the murder took place just as she looked out and the lights went off a split second later. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln’s murder transformed a time of rejoicing in the capital to a time of mourning. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of their diary entries deal with subjects like murder and molestation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In discussing such a thing as the murder potential we should remember that many of us are capable of committing murder. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge said firmly, “And discussing my murder. I do not feel my reaction is unreasonable.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They gave him ten to fifteen years for attempted murder. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, Booth reminds the group that the murders of Seward and Johnson must also take place at ten fifteen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Frank blacked out, and awakened to discover that he had killed his mother’s attackers, he had also removed the evil from the murder. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

An accident was bad enough, but a murder? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As I read the book, it came to me that I could understand Mersault’s distancing himself from the murder and also the lack of understanding on the part of the judges examining him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That information was needed as evidence in Charles Guiteau’s murder trial. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Others trying to come back to the city had been beaten, robbed, murdered on the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, from television, that there was no statute of limitations on murder. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He ultimately admitted that he had never known anything about the Morrison murder, had no clue what had happened to her or anything else at all about the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The United Nations estimated that about eight thousand people were killed, most of them murdered by the Haitian army and its paramilitaries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“It was utter folly to have the players enact his father’s murder in the presence of Claudius himself. How is this revenge?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Yet no evidence had ever surfaced implicating Hale or his henchmen in Whitehorn’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lit out for the house, running naked and screaming bloody murder. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the Aberzombies gloat would likely send her sailing off the edge, and she didn’t want murder on her conscience. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The records no longer exist, but his appeal, which went before a five-member review board in Oklahoma, was based at least partly on his cooperation with the bureau’s investigation of the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If what you say were true, then the murder of your father would be written on Claudius’s brow,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She told me that my grandfather had been murdered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That is a good thing, now, for a man to leave a son behind him, like the son who punished Aigisthos for the murder of his great father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After consultation with the NEC, I announced the suspension of our talks and warned Mr. de Klerk that he could not “talk about negotiations on the one hand and murder our people on the other.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wondered: What would a normal family be doing less than twenty-four hours after discovering their parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not the secret police trying to murder us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Whoever had murdered these men had seemed to get away scot-free. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was thousands of miles from my wife, sitting in a room that felt like a holding cell, waiting for a man I had seen murder two people that same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He has murdered many times, but there are no corpses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cofield sued guards and state officials connected to the prisons he’d been in, and was accused of calling the governor of Alabama from jail and threatening to murder him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Based on their personal knowledge of Walter's whereabouts at the time of the Morrison murder, family members, church members, black pastors, and others all pleaded with Sheriff Tate to release McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And at least two of these deaths were known to be murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Relying on these criteria, he accepted the reliability of evidence for apparitions, for the body of the murdered bleeding in the presence of the murderer, for alchemy, and so forth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two murders completed in a single night mark a descent I should be proud of. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That was quite the performance you gave earlier. I particularly enjoyed the fainting. I’m sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself instead to murder and cannibalism.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And when Brandon was murdered and Father told me I must wed his brother, I did so gladly, though I never saw Ned’s face until our wedding day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s called photomarking. When anyone in the picture is murdered, their face gets smudged out. Wick hadn’t started on his crusade yet, but I saw it in him, I knew it wouldn’t be long.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

God always found a way to let his pets get by with murder. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a rather small scale at first, he began to free-lance around the Chinese countryside, robbing, highjacking, murdering when absolutely necessary. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

If Balekin is going to murder his brother, he’s smart enough not to leave evidence lying around. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the auction progressed, and Mr. Clutter’s worldly domain dwindled, gradually vanished, Paul Helm, remembering the burial of the murdered family, said, “It’s like a second funeral.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much more extensive long-term information about band and tribal societies reveals that murder is a leading cause of death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A mugging or a burglary or a murder is usually tallied whether or not the criminal is caught. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s murder left us with so many questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Murder was all around us and we knew, deep in ourselves, in some silent space, that the author of these murders was beyond us, that it suited some other persons ends. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for Cathy’s murder, fire and robbery might have been a coincidence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for Boy21 because his parents were murdered and he thinks he’s from outer space, but, then, his knowing so much about constellations is pretty interesting. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas had the sickening thought that Gaily looked like someone about to commit murder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In time they would be sent east to death camps and murdered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The 2 defendants you see before you will be shown to be participants in that act and are being charged with felony murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building...wherever they had murdered... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. King’s murder caused immediate riots in more than one hundred cities across the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who’ll do that for you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Your Honor, this boy had no notion before he murdered, and he has none now, of having been wronged by any specific individuals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was ten, I saw my other best friend get murdered in a drive-by.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And was that why they had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now that he had been convicted of capital murder, they were downright hostile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harrison’s murder fell upon the city like a heavy curtain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The murdered girls' families began making funeral preparations for their young daughters first thing that Monday morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To get fifteen million of us here to make us his slaves, on the way he murdered one hundred million! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rally was held, after which the armed men went on a rampage, murdering approximately thirty people in a dreadful and grisly attack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But three days before I started ninth grade, I went to juvenile court to testify against my two best friends, who had been charged with second-degree murder. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

That fateful Sunday, when the sheriff summoned ambulances to remove the murdered family, the ambulances had driven across the grass straight to the front door, and the tire tracks were still visible. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a sign that A murdered B; unless of course A’s knife has been stolen from him, or B attacked A, so that A was acting in self-defence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was an ant of exactly the same species, but it came from the other nest It was met by one of the scavenging ants and murdered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the kids wanted to know about the murder of Narciso, but I told them nothing and soon the news was old and they went on to something else. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the second of what would become six Goebbels children, all of whom Magda Goebbels would order murdered with cyanide eleven years later. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Royal was taken aback when Cora told him later that she was wanted for murder in Georgia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was a Buddhist and believed in the laws of karma, so it made sense to him that he might pay for his war murders: everything comes back to you, nothing is accidental. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The central theme of Aeschylus’s Eumenides is the trial of Orestes, the prince of Argos, for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why would Commander Jameson want to hide the details of my brother’s murder from me? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He admitted to the murder on the spot, giving details only the murderer could know. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to murder you, kid, it’s easy enough this way, Carter seemed to be saying. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she had just spoken to the man who had murdered him? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He had been staring out the window and thinking about his murdered brother. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monsters had murdered Grandpa Portman, and they had come after me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

These women were murdered in a pretend accident! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Aureliano calmed them down: he would not say a word, but on the night they went to murder the Moscote family they would find him guarding the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His friend said that he had information about the murders of the Osage but would speak only to Vaughan, whom he trusted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A girl is found murdered, down in the ravine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Forswear your oath and murder me, and you will watch your little Beth strangle at the end of a rope." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Had they murdered the families and destroyed the villages of everyone here as well? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was feeling as he had felt when he stood over Mary’s bed with the white blur drawing near; an iota more of fear would have sent him plunging again into murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My sixteen-year-old grandson was murdered fifteen years ago,” she said, "and I loved that boy more than life itself.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Sons of the Harpy would have resumed their murders, the Yunkishmen their war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I don't mind murdering one of them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spread in a blurry mountain across the face of the makeshift shrine at Tariq Johnson's murder site. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The last time I trusted a faction representative with this information, all my friends were murdered,” he replies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He confessed that he had murdered his wife, although he knew, and his questioners must have known, that his wife was still alive. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You can’t trust him. He is old beyond counting, and crafty. He is bitter from the guilt of murder and is cursed by the gods.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

During my years researching the murders of the Osage, I had turned my small office in New York into a grim repository. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The man police blame for his murder was killed four days later in an outbreak of violence that left four people dead in one six-hour period. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She stands up and looks around the room, searching for clues to a murder that has yet to happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But that did not mean that harmony was restored, for harmony is never achieved through murder. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can imagine her if necessary even murdering the other woman. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

To say that a man is capable of murder does not mean that he has committed murder. 10TH JUROR: But it can mean it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to establish a motive for the murder of that innocent girl!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But they steal anything. And murder—and other things—I don't know—the world has gone crazy. I’ll have a key made for you, just one. Until then, don’t leave the house unlocked.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grisly murder of a popular local official—the assistant mayor had been beheaded and his body tossed in the Artibonite River—was making life even more complicated for Captain Carroll. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That’s one automatic red murder flag to the white man, and his woman knows it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d murdered for the Dregs, stolen, brought down bad men and good, and Kaz had never hinted that any of the assignments were less than a command to be obeyed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cases of straightforward murder, like Iofur’s killing of his own father, were rarer still. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I turn each of Jude’s doodles I find around the house into a murder scene. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Good. Good! Well, we might as well start now. Look, here are my murder mysteries—d’you like that sort of thing?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

White said to him, “We understand from the governor’s office you know something about the Osage murders.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five years of sleep like death, and now the murdered land draws a breath, moves its fingers, takes up life through its rivers and forests. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might even have thought that someone who had been murdered had come back and was murdering the murderer, who was shrieking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How his very bones froze as the perturbed spirit revealed that he, King Hamlet, had been murdered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s unclear if Peeta means he’d finish himself off now, to spare us having to murder him, or only if the Capitol took him prisoner again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mingo had been distant to her on account of the attention that runaways brought to the farm, and when he heard she was wanted for murder, shunned Cora altogether. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It is my guilt that I educated the German youth for a man who committed murder by the millions.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they managed to escape by climbing down a rope with the baby Lyra in her father’s arms, and they regained the family fortune, only to be attacked and murdered by outlaws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you help her? She can’t use her hands so she must have had a murder accomplice.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was also facing indictment in the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wondered whether it was necessary to go back and wait in their hallway for Francie as she had been doing since the murder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my troupe was murdered, there were times when I would dream of my parents, alive and singing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Old and crippled, she sat in the shade with a switch and threatened them with gory murder if they happened to misbehave right in front of her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The premise of their misadventure was enough to get them hanged, but the murder ensured grim abuse before they swung. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw myself,” she murmured, “the day my father was murdered.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Osage territory, however, had been allotted, and much of the surface land where the murders had occurred, including the slaying of Anna Brown, was no longer under the tribe’s control. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I even saw a man pull out a knife and murder a stranger in cold blood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She said that it was usually people who were killed in murder mystery novels. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“On such an expedition the theft of food comes next to murder as a crime, and should by rights be punished as such,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Another article said Black people were more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that the wisdom of deliberately covering oneself with blood—even pig blood—immediately after committing a murder was questionable, but all I said was: “Why did he want to do that?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When murder suspects are stressed, they sometimes make mistakes and tell the cops a story that might later become evidence against them. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

No other Champions were murdered, thankfully, but Celaena still found herself looking over her shoulder constantly, even though Chaol seemed to consider the two murders to be just unfortunate incidents. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The pitch-darkness at night had led to a sharp increase in the murder rate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This is absolutely urgent. I need to speak to someone about a murder,” Phoebe said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Also to a few sensational murders, some ball scores, and his report card. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they murder each other more gently because in the woods sweet songbirds sang? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also dreamed that I was able to call Professor Thomas, but when she told me she remembered Marcus, it was from the news, from when he was convicted of murder. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A murder of ravens erupted from the hillside, screaming their sharp cries, black wings beating above a white world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Man, it didn’t matter how much my parents and Mr. Anderson had prepared me for it, I still couldn’t believe they were being charged with murder! Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As he later recalled, he told Hale, “We have unquestioned signed statements implicating you as the principal in the Henry Roan and Smith family murders. We have the evidence to convict you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I really thought I might murder my brother. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The slip from sterilization to outright murder came virtually unannounced and unnoticed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Why make me say it? When it's on the tip of your own tongue. Anthony Marston was murdered, of course." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He was impelled toward murder as much through the thirst for excitement, exultation, and elation as he was through fear! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Politics. He doesn’t care about murder. He doesn’t care that it’s his fault Princess Rhyia is dead. He doesn’t care, Jude. He’s never cared. That’s what makes him a monster.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walked outside and looked down the road and thought about the fact that no one was ever prosecuted for Ronda Morrison's murder after Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had heard about families that had murdered the widows of their sons to get rid of them. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the old library, which is no longer in business—there was a murder in there last year and they closed it down. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was faking his disappearance, and the challenge would be to find him, similar to the online murder mystery he’d planned two Halloweens ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was with the daughter of the murdered man. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Students are getting away with murder and the staff is too worn out to care. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sirius Black had murdered thirteen people with one curse; Mr. and Mrs. Weasley obviously thought Harry would be panic-stricken if he knew the truth. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I watch him getting closer and closer to the drawings that are going to get me murdered. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I like to believe that even though I was drugged and nearly murdered at school yesterday, I am able to put that behind me today. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t decide what part of this scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He entered a world of clamor, smoke, and steam, refulgent with the scents of murdered cattle and pigs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We want to talk to you about the murder of Bill Smith’s family and Anna Brown,” White said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to talk about is Madoc and murder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine the words you’d use, dear reader, to tell your family that your parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the courtroom were the family members of the guy who was being falsely accused of murder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn't dealt with the police much around the Morrison murder and didn't have useful information pointing to their misconduct, aside from being able to show how they were provoked by her relationship with Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the murders would happen for no reason at all...just for sporting fun. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yet Sirius had been innocent — the murders for which he had been convicted had been committed by Worm- tail, Voldemort’s supporter, whom nearly everybody now believed dead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The other one still gasped, “He tried—he tried-to—murder me. Bear—bear witness.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the cat had been poisoned, might not this act have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What exactly is he doing that tells you he’s about to go on a murder spree?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June 1923, three deputies were indicted for murder and the case went to trial. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A legacy of plunder, a network of laws and traditions, a heritage, a Dream, murdered Prince Jones as sure as it murders black people in North Lawndale with frightening regularity. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When delegates arrived from Alexandria to argue against restoring his power, Ptolemy had them murdered. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maya was fairly certain that she was going to murder her sister that night. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Dream of acting white, of talking white, of being white, murdered Prince Jones as sure as it murders black people in Chicago with frightening regularity. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The callers accused C.P. of taking payoffs to work for integration and routinely threatened to murder him and his family if he didn’t resign his position with the charrette. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mollie’s brother-in-law, Bill Smith, was one of the first to wonder if there was something curious about Lizzie’s death, coming so soon after the murders of Anna and Whitehorn. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tears for every name of unarmed black men and women I know of who’ve been assaulted or murdered by the police are inked on the page. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And as I dug deeper into the Osage murder cases—into the murk of autopsies and witness testimony and probate records—I began to see certain holes in the bureau’s investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The preacher’s face was black and sad and earnest and made him feel a sense of guilt deeper than that which even his murder of Mary had made him feel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A pause that murders, until my mother turns away and cries, and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now, four months into his term as sheriff, he faced a seemingly unsolvable murder and intense public pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s happened before that someone’s been convicted of murder and executed, and years later someone else has confessed to the crime. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on when some particularly nasty murder was reported, the Negroes said it was Winnie Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have heard about those murders somewhere. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have an explanation for his murder, except the usual: wrong place, wrong time, wrong company. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Joe walked away from the murder scene, dropped the knife in a nearby alley, and headed to a pay phone to call his father, but the police had beaten him to it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

His light- brown eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, then. Take me there. How do you say it in English? I’ll...er...‘murder two birds with the same rock.’” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had she imagined him lying awake there, plotting murder and revolt? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can’t talk to someone who is dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That was the third time a person tried to murder me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The people here are only interested in the notorious murders. Jack the Ripper. The Servant Girl Annihilator. Boston Borgia. The death of some street kid is nothing in comparison. It happens all the time.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, “He tried to murder me. I should have been a dead man if you had not come up.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fringe is where my mother retreated after witnessing a murder—it is where the Bureau found her and rescued her because they suspected her genetic code was sound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mum had to drag her away to stop her from murdering me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn't need a video game that encourages toxic masculinity and brainless murder rn. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Murder him? Why? Why, sweetheart? Why could you murder our Zooey?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sure, a giant, gushing spring chose some guy to hunt innocent people down and murder them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each murder in band and tribal societies usually leads to an attempted revenge killing, starting one more unending cycle of murder and countermurder that destabilizes the society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, did someone ever come here asking about those murders?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

What sort of man would wish to murder the president of another land? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the explosion destroyed the Smiths’ house, agents asked the nurse who had been on duty when Bill was being treated in the hospital whether he had mentioned anything about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The body that committed the murder would inevitably get caught, but the murderer would go free. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Let’s take the old man who lived on the second floor right underneath the room where the murder took place. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You also stand accused of conspiring at the murder of your own lord husband, our late beloved King Robert, First of His Name.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were talking in the past tense because Tristram had finally been murdered, while playing the harp to La Beale Isoud, by the exasperated King Mark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d heard too many stories about the death camps, the way we were being murdered real slow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, on the day of the murder, a fish fry was held at Walter's house. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I will be tried for murder and hanged. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Incidents like the Emmett Till murder were not limited to Mississippi; acts of racial injustice and violence were happening all over the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Too obvious. I'm a Spaniard. A refugee. My parents were murdered by Basque separatists.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The murder rate had not fallen under three hundred in years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Cole Cannon died, and Evan and his friend were charged with capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Archie also knew that Janza would be willing to practically murder him in his sleep to get his hot hands on the picture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had already been some muggings and robberies, and several white servicemen had been found murdered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as the state of Mississippi is concerned, this is not about race, it’s just another murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them whatever you like. But make it quick, Remus. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course in the towns where their families live they have whatever roots are possible—clubs, dances, love affairs, and murders. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Legends about a wand—or wands—that have passed from hand to hand by murder.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He could tell she was worried, and not wanting to hang around in case he annoyed her, he quickly picked out a murder story and a book about China and said good-bye. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"If I went to the dungeon, I could drive a spear right through his heart. How could he murder Bran if he was dead?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was standing under the juniper tree at the exact spot where he had murdered Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Brown mentioned that his ex-wife had been murdered, No. 46 tried to elicit from him where he’d been at the time of her death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why is it that we as geeks, freaks, nerds, dorks, dweebs .. . have to suffer while the clueless, bow-headed, testosterone- poisoned "normal" people are allowed to get away with murder? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them saying they hadn’t done any murdering at all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t seem right that you can just walk out one day, wearing ordinary clothes, and be murdered without warning, and then have all those people looking at you, examining you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be the first they had murdered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I telephoned my white friends in the Works Progress Administration: “Transfer me at once to another job, or I’ll be murdered.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors working with White decided to move forward with this case first, and Hale and Ramsey were charged in federal court with Roan’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But about a year after Hitler came into power, on June 30,1934, he decided to murder the storm troopers' leadership, including his friend Röhm. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Other twins were murdered by gassing and their bodies dissected to compare the sizes of internal organs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sam Westing was not murdered, but one of his heirs was guilty—guilty of some offense against a relentless man. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My lady, they murdered my lord father, your husband," he said grimly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There would have been a sixth, but the Usurper’s dogs had murdered her brother’s son when he was still a babe at the breast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He believed the coaches allowed certain players to get away with murder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the justice of the peace charged ten deputies with murder. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She sipped a glass of lemonade and did not look at Cora as she said, “You’re going to get us murdered.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Blackie was still hostile, sullen, mean, but when White asked him about Hale and Burkhart’s role in the murders of the Osage, his mood seemed to change. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Officials from the state of Mississippi, where the boy had been murdered, did not even bother to clean up the body of Emmett Till. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, White faced the same problem with the investigation of Mollie Burkhart’s murdered family that he did with his inquiry into Roan’s death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All of them, however, tell of the unending futility of the task the forty-nine Danaïds were compelled to pursue in the lower world as a punishment for murdering their husbands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quarrels, murders, feuds, forays, vendettas, assassinations, tortures and abominations, all these were in their repertory of human accomplishments; but they did not go to war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Greyjoys were not murdered in Pyke except once in a great while by their brothers, and his brothers were both dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If you’re interested, there’s a book about one of the murders,” she said and reached below the counter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a flash of inspiration and ambition—which was, according to Shakespeare, what Macbeth was feeling a day or so before he murdered Duncan. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the extraordinary publicity surrounding the Morrison murder gave Pearson another idea. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometime in 1968, when I was in college, the FBI officially closed and sealed its investigation, charging no one for the murders. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Have they been programmed to hate our faces particularly because we have survived and they were so callously murdered? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The feds cut a deal with Morrison: in return for getting his arrest warrant for assault quashed, he would work as an informant on the Osage murder cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He remembered seeing many cartoons of Communists in newspapers and always they had flaming torches in their hands and wore beards and were trying to commit murder or set things on fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This song was about William the false lover and how he tricked pretty Peggy-o into running away with him but then murdered her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many other places, important people who were arrested were then murdered. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We ate it while we watched TV The news was all about murders and fires and other awful stuff. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Men rushed past them, shouting of fire and murder and sorcery. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe the little man had it in him to murder his own sire, but the fact of Lord Tywin’s demise seemed to be beyond doubt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If the old Hand had been murdered, it was deftly and subtly done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anthony James Marston, that upon the 14th day of November last, you were guilty of the murder of John and Lucy Combes. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Is this the selfsame father that you murdered?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know if it’s explicitly stated in the law, but you can’t ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never spoke to him and you did not murder him?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1792 and 1794 Wayne put together a combined force of regulars and experienced rangers that would use tactics such as destroying food supplies and murdering civilians. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m scared of what I become if I murder somebody,” she said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all know Professor Moody considers the morning wasted if he hasn’t discovered six plots to murder him before lunchtime,” said Karkaroff loudly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But isn’t it possible those people were murdered?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The souls whispered songs about their lives and deaths, a swirl of loves lost and remembrances, hymns and murder ballads. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And only in a culture of honor would it have occurred to a jury that murder—under those circumstances—was not a crime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“May I ask who it is who has been kidnapped or possibly murdered?” the woman said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

‘I do not approve of murder,’ the Queen said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent her to the Old Capitol Prison, where she would join the many other suspects and witnesses arrested after the president’s murder. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had informed A1 Dewey that at approximately four o’clock on Saturday, November 14, the day of the murders, a pair of Mexicans, one mustachioed and the other pockmarked, appeared at River Valley Farm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have heard that your master has been murdered?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would murder him in the hallway after school, no questions asked. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All I know is that when I threw myself to the ground and into the circle of his arms I was small again: no baggage, no years in the bush, no murder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But Teenie knew that Mr. Derby was probably quite capable of murder and would be within the limits of social acceptability to do so for this impropriety. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not when oil well millionaires and timberlands owners and god-knows-who-else get away with murder and pay nothing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“On the charge of first-degree felony murder, the jury finds the defendant . . . guilty.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A man is in the dock, accused of murdering his wife. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But that’s what people did in Nazi Germany while people were being tortured and murdered, children gassed to death like vermin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the face of Mr. Edwards, saw it lose its placid self-sufficiency and dissolve into murder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you stop acting like I’m trying to murder you?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

What his knife and gun had once meant to him, his knowledge of having secretly murdered Mary now meant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He and Leandro were transferred back to the capital the Monday following the murder. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the murder flew ahead or lingered behind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boy’s murder and the “rescue” proved to be a valuable finale. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"My lady, I swear to you, I will see that the Lannisters answer for your husband's murder," the king declared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Someone murdered this necklace-wearing person and buried her body up on the hill. Why else would it be up there?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Until now, they had limited their attacks to unarmed ffeedmen, cutting them down in the streets or breaking into their homes under the cover of darkness to murder them in their beds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had come to this island in the far north with the goal of murder, and she had done her job, but now she only felt like a killer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner and the guardian of Anna Brown and her mother, was a member of the inquest into Brown’s murder that failed to turn up the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Scores of innocent people were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, banished, beaten, tortured, and murdered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the murders of Major Mac and Joe had sparked off a nasty battle in that area and it was exactly what everyone had been trying to avoid. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I was sent up to the house as a diversion while they were getting rid of the lad I’d tried to murder that morning and the other chained man. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Arresting someone for coming forward with credible evidence that challenged the reliability of a capital murder conviction? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The killing—which the Washington Post called “the most brutal in crime annals in the District”—appeared to be more than simply a murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And yet he showed every evidence of wanting to get out and murder a bear that outweighed him a thousand to one. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother covered the silence with talk about orchids, and Lucas couldn’t stop talking about his job if someone had threatened to bloody, bloody murder him if he said another word. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have the fleeting, absurd idea that if she’s dead I will be accused of murder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow! A murder! Who wrote that?” and “Is it real?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In all of his life these two murders were the most meaningful things that had ever happened to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He is at King’s Landing, condemned to die for the murder of his nephew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I look at him with murder in my eyes, and after a few seconds, he turns away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"But why . . . ?" "It was a case of provocation and murder!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Religious slurs, temper tantrums, insults, coercion, debt: all petty things, really, irritants—too minor, it would seem, to move five reasonable people to murder. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe I was joking about the murder, but Edie does bump into me extra hard during a basketball game in gym later that day. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She’s tied the yacht to something on the outside—Mark can see the coiled end of a rope—either oblivious or insensitive to the murder her partner has just committed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We don’t bust, yet they blame us for murder. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I remember being nine years old, translating newspaper articles for my mother about my father’s murder. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or as an American friend put it to me much later: “Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it’s going to pass through nine murder victims.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry, Hemingway, but this old guy murdered some of your best chops for a generation of students. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During that three-day period where there was no other news to be heard except relating to the murdered President, Mr. Muhammad had a previously scheduled speaking engagement in New York at the Manhattan Center. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re here to decide whether he’s guilty or innocent of murder, not to go into reasons why he grew up this way. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felony murder is as serious as it gets. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a Shakespearian move, Wiraqocha Inka decided to settle the issue by murdering his inconvenient younger son. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath the iron grating of a murder hole Snow broke the silence, as she had known he would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But she murdered the farmer’s daughter! How could you possibly save a murderer?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When black men had been lynched or otherwise murdered in cold blood, it was always said, ‘ ‘Things will get better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negra’s reputation for information was made at the time of Popcorn’s murder. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nana filled the courtroom with stories about the time she caught a shark off the coast of Key West, and the time she single-handedly uncovered a plot to murder the pope. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to accuse me of murder.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The other avatar glares at me with a look of murder, but I’m careful not to stare back. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I curse you. Three times, I curse you. As you’ve murdered me, may your hands always be stained with blood. May death be your only companion. May you—” He breaks off abruptly, coughing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And small children, small defenseless children, dropped down like swatted flies. This is murder, cold-blooded murder.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now you’re dealing illegal arms to a country we’ve levied sanctions against and you plan to murder us and frame them for it so you can go to war and take over their resources? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At J. T.’s direction, the ledgers had been rigorously compiled: sales, wages, dues, even the death benefits paid out to the families of murdered members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had murdered his beloved and done so in a way that made it look like the prince had committed the crime. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

All I knew about Sonny’s brothers was that they were angry and one of them had murdered someone —I wasn’t sure which one, or why. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to find twelve white men who would convict one of their own for murdering American Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Osage had removed his image, not to forget the murders, as most Americans had, but because they cannot forget. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lockhart stopped abruptly in the middle of counting the number of murders he had prevented. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For that reason, they fall into a different moral class than the Jewish Holocaust, which was a state policy of mass murder. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sat there in the police station—arrested for suspicion of grand theft auto, a plausible suspect for carjacking or murder—and debated whether I should call my parents or go to jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I imagine that they would want you to turn your considerable talents to coercion, torture, and murder,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

You are more likely to be murdered in your bed in America than on the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now my parents had been murdered in their own bed by an unknown killer for a reason I couldn’t imagine. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Red Jack’s jaw is set, and there’s a ruthless glint to his eyes that makes me think he's got murder on the mind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A sign is that from which something else is inferred, for example murder from blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"The Starks do not murder men in their beds." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Turning to Ben she said, “Dad’s flight jacket will be good to wrap fish in or cover a body if we ever witness a murder.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marveled over how he’d been shot through with arrows and left for dead, how he’d survived his murder only to be beaten to death by the Roman Emperor’s soldiers and buried in the catacombs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His heart had festered with murder and jealousy—so little by little he boiled away all the loving parts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His next thought is that his mother is going to murder him in cold blood. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jefferson began to gather, from relatives and newspaper clippings and other records, bits of information about the murder—an endeavor that spanned two decades. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before the ordeal was over, at least two men had been murdered and eaten, the suspected murderer had been summarily executed, and eight others were dead from sickness and starvation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the men traced the path of the bullet—it had entered just below the crown, on a downward trajectory—there was no longer any doubt: Anna’s death had been cold-blooded murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So I’m supposed to ‘get over’ the fact he was murdered?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s murder trying to get any writing done.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: I couldn’t possibly know what the police had taken—or what might have been taken by an intruder the night of the murders. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And because he saw how easily the mob could be swayed—he was traumatized by the judicial murder of his teacher and hero Socrates—he didn’t trust rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I stare into her shamrock-green eyes and then, before I can stop myself, I say, “Russ’s parents were murdered.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not have known that Ella’s whispered story of deception and murder had been the first experience in my life that had elicited from me a total emotional response. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be only one murder here tonight,” said Black, and his grin widened. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bobby was almost giddy with delight at notching his first win against one of the strongest players in the world, a former World Champion, the man he’d fantasized about murdering during the 1959 Candidates. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Prior to the Clutter mystery, the four cases cited were the sum of Dewey’s experience with murder, and measured against the case confronting him, were as squalls preceding a hurricane. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1941 and 1943, it’s estimated that the commandos murdered two million people, lining them up, shooting them, and shoving them into mass graves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To this was added even his own army, for while besieging Aquileia and finding the capture difficult, disgusted by his cruelty and fearing him less, seeing that Maximinus had many enemies, the soldiers murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. de Klerk and I spoke privately and agreed that we would not let Hani’s murder derail the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Controlled by the simulation, he will now murder the people he called innocent not three minutes ago. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After Roan’s murder, Hale had visited Roan’s widow several times to try to get her to sign various papers regarding claims against Roan’s estate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, it was a big deal when people got murdered, if that’s what had happened to Clara—at least, it was a big deal in the detective magazines Ophie had started reading. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Many nations understand that the systematic murder of such intelligent creatures is monstrous, but the traffic continues, promoted chiefly by Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The men sent to desecrate the grave took it upon themselves to murder this saintly dog.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

RON: “When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return.” Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

George will never get to reunite with his sister, and she died thinking he had been murdered by Jeanine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A strong faction believed and hinted that he had been murdered, sleeping, by the Orkneys, and had been buried under a pile of leaves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before Bigheart disclosed critical information about the murders to Vaughan—and before he died of suspected poisoning at the hospital in Oklahoma City—he had sought a “certificate of competency” from authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Had some enemy stormed the castle and murdered King Robert? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Encanis, setting men to murder one another and stealing children from their beds at night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What happens when you touch a murdered man’s coffin? Tell me. You know all about such things.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

See, last year a kid was murdered by a cop just a few streets away from my grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But all I keep thinking about is the note on Balekin’s desk, the note that seemed to implicate Balekin in Liriope’s murder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It is the crime of Cain, a brother’s murder,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He steals and he tried to murder my mother twice.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately there were other people who knew of Gawaine’s weakness for apples, and bad blood over the Pellinore murders still existed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We planned the murder of Mary Dalton, and today we come to court and say: ‘We had nothing to do with it!’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government, it seemed, had never been in the habit of murdering people for not submitting their children to a public education. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These revelations were added to the recent evidence implicating the police in murders in Natal and suspicions that the Department of Military Intelligence was con-ducting covert operations against the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Change is hard. It’s hard for you, it’s hard for me, it’s murder on your sister.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this murder the work of some rival gang whom Cassetti had double-crossed in the past, or is it an act of private vengeance?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also confirmed that he had been spending time with Karen Kelly and that she was involved in the Pittman murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rarely did a murder involve the mysterious elements of dime novels and mystery stories. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just last week, the lot of them were celebrating—with cigars and sparkling cider—the murder of a journalist in Miami who advocated reestablishing ties with Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A “third party” was suspected of killing Malcolm X by CORE’S National Director James Farmer, who said, “Malcolm’s murder was calculated to produce more violence and murder and vengeance killings.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis singled out Herbert because he was the youngest murder victim at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He considers finding a couch to sleep on, but what if these demons from hell break out of their cages and murder each other during the night when he’s supposed to be watching them? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That evening I decided to ride Spizz’s tricycle to the game, and when Bunny saw me ride up in my uniform and walk onto the ball field she wanted to know everything about the murders. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you find humor in a man’s murder.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered why someone would put a good thing such as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnap-ping and murder. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Agents told Blackie that they couldn’t cut a deal with him to reduce his sentence, and he spoke grudgingly at first about the murders, but gradually he divulged more and more. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was, he had been told, one of the three things God most hated: murder, divorce, and waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The State did not produce one witness to the murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wake up. Some guy on the train got murdered,” Gogol says to Sonia from his top berth to hers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What a night! Red arrested! Snowstorm. And this place down here looks like somebody’s been murdered.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in that dream he had had, just before he had awoken with his scar hurting, Voldemort had not been alone ... he had been talking to Wormtail. . . plotting Harry’s murder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe we speeded things up a little, but you really can’t say we murdered him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slept an hour and woke in the grip of a nightmare about explosions, invasion, murder, and conflagration. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I crane my neck—is this the night someone will murder Captain Smith? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"My king was murdered," the girl said quietly, "and not by Lady Catelyn. I swear it on my sword, by the gods old and new." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He murdered Mary Dalton accidentally, without thinking, without plan, without conscious motive. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Agents were aware that Pike had been hired by William Hale back in 1921 to solve the Osage murders but had abandoned the case after failing to make any progress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Both you and this King character are on trial for felony murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I had to hunt down his killer, then wouldn’t that be murder as well? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bishop von Galen warned the German people about the implications of such murder. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama is among the growing list of states that make the murder of a person under the age of fourteen a capital offense punishable by the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But he left us on our own to wonder why Kennedy was murdered—and on our own to try to find solace in his sudden death. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But nowhere in the Medical Examiner's testimony does he indicate who was responsible for that murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew he was telling her to go back to Pennsylvania and collect what was left of the man she and Macon had murdered. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say she bawled bloody murder and refused to come into the house, so Uncle Herm finally had to drag his whole family away before they even had a chance to take their coats off. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You would not kill me. You did not steal me from murderers to murder me yourself.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over I shouted out the scene of the murder. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But if I manage it, I will have murdered one of the favored sons of Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wrote words on the board: gaggle of geese, bee swarm, whale pod, wolf pack, and murder of crows. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was older than the Young Wolf’s murdered brothers, fourteen or fifteen by the look of him, and his eyes were older still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The club’s president held the official title of the Ripper; its members were mainly journalists, who brought to the club’s meetings stories of murder harvested from the city’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Prince Jones, murdered by the men who should have been his security guards, is always with me, and I knew that soon he would be with you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He said he was going mad here. Said he couldn’t stand it any longer. Poor Bronwyn. My Abe left, too, but at least he wasn’t murdered by hollows.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Scarlett assumed that the murder of a family would have been front page news but instead, when she eventually found it, it was almost buried on page five. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The offence for which this girl was thus murdered was this:—She had been set that night to mind Mrs. Hicks’s baby, and during the night she fell asleep, and the baby cried. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They were transporting her in a bus full of prisoners to one of their concentration camps and we tried to stop it—” He interrupted plaintively, “Must it be the murder first? Go back a bit.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach may have been wrong about the murder, but she was not convinced of Turtle’s plan. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A murder has been committed. Certain actions have to be performed. That is all there is to it.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myers claimed to have committed the Vickie Pittman murder under the direction of another local sheriff; he laid out to us a widespread conspiracy involving police, drug dealing, and money laundering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Stepson’s death was usually included in the official tally of murders during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Well, perfection was subjective—Rowan certainly wouldn’t call the man a perfect scythe—but there was nothing in Goddard’s repertoire of malfeasance that would suggest he would murder Faraday. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A dark depression that might never leave— memories of Chuck and his brutal murder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"A disturbing thought. We are not the Free Cities, where such things are com-mon. Grand Maester Aethelmure wrote that all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Crow's not going to inherit anything, not if she's in jail for murder," Otis Amber complained bitterly. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do not talk about the fact that he murdered my parents; we talk around it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she started swinging her round and round her head, faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling, "I'll give you pigtails, you little rat!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The accused man, Kabuo, was somebody he knew, somebody he’d gone to high school with, and he couldn’t bring himself, like the other reporters, to remove his coat at Kabuo’s murder trial. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t allow it! I am the author of this story, and I didn’t write it to be misused for the purposes of violence and murder!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o’clock, you hardly think what you’re going to feed the corpse for dinner.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is a story filled with dishonor and deceit, with murder and trickery. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Abruptly the murders stopped, as if that tryst with Mary Kelly had sated the killer’s need at last. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then it occurs to me how casually we’re discussing the cold-blooded murder of the sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To perfect their army and make me a killer, they were going to murder Ben. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hooks was promised release from jail and reward money if he could connect McMillian's truck to the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Gregg had once told Agent Burger that he knew something about the murders, though he remained coy, insisting that he couldn’t betray a confidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I continued researching the murders, but there were fewer archives to examine, fewer documents to find. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The other said, “Hundreds of children are hidden, mistreated, starved, neglected, abused—even murdered—for no reason. Forcing children into the shadows can be counted as genocide.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, she and the others had survived in hiding, trapped in this citadel of murdered gods and scraping a meager existence from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In 1982, the thirty-seven murders that took place inside Ector County gave Odessa the distinction of having the highest murder rate in the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You cheated me. You murdered my child within me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Despite all of the evidence presented at our hearing showing that Walter had nothing to do with the Pittman murder, the local press invoked the case to scare up more fear about Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why should any of that matter when the hallowed act of gleaning was slowly devolving into mortal age murder? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And Laius was murdered by robbers, where three roads meet on the way to Delphi,” she concluded triumphantly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had been planning to murder her, I certainly would not have told her and, rationally, she no doubt realized it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then some of the hearthmen jumped up with shouts and tumult, intending to kill him, for murder is a lighter shadow on a house than suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The result, if viewed without sound, would seem to concern two cheerful, milkfed athletes discussing hockey or baseball—anything but murder and the roles, boastfully confessed, they had played in the deaths of seven people. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace Wexler raised her hand, lowered it, raised it halfway, then lowered it again, torn between her claim as Sam Westing's relative and being accused of murder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoover needed White—one of his few experienced agents, one of the Cowboys—to resolve the case of the Osage murders and thereby protect Hoover’s job. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"He looked too peaceful to have been murdered," Turtle said. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we have a record of who they murdered.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I tell you,” said the other convict then, “that he would murder me, if he could?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the gods transformed the intestines of Loki’s murdered son into fetters so tight and so hard that they might have been iron. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And that is definitely premeditated first- degree murder as far as I’m concerned. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone spoke of it like murder or treason, with fascination and revulsion. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those murders were concentrated in a handful of neighborhoods, and the victims were concentrated in a single demographic: young black men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Burkhart also provided crucial details about how Hale had arranged the murder of Roan for the insurance money. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For some time Milkman had been picking up hints that one or more of these murders had in fact been either witnessed or committed by a Negro. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it got around to alibis, they'd find out where he was the night of the murder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the South, crimes like murder or assault might send you to prison, but interracial sex was a transgression in its own unique category of danger with correspondingly extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kaz didn’t care who was responsible; the murder fascinated him because he couldn’t figure out how it had been accomplished. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That incident set something off inside me—it seemed even more horrific than the other racially motivated murders that had happened recently throughout the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over 115 million African blacks—close to the 1930’s population of the United States—were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to use what I’ve learned from Madoc and the Court of Shadows to manipulate and murder my way into keeping the throne ready for him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In a murder mystery novel someone has to work out who the murderer is and then catch them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What about my parents, all the parents of murdered boys? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She was alone with one of the deadliest men in Fjerda, a man who would gladly torture and murder her if he knew what she truly was. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Why else do you think I have not confronted you before now? Because I knew that you would have been murdered if Lord Voldemort realized that I suspected you.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, murdered. Claudius was the serpent who stung my father,” Hamlet said, agony in his voice and eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then they murdered the chief’s wife and children. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was the Queen’s accomplice in this murder. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now her husband was accused of murder, and that changed things between them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scarlett said, “If you wanted to find out about a murder, where would you look? I already tried the Internet.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Because you wanted him to be executed, too, right? Since he murdered one of your children?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a time in American history,” I wrote one day, “when people say nothing. People are murdered, and no one says, ‘This is wrong’ or does anything about it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor little sparrow, my eye! Listen, Miss, if I let that young hussy off her lead for five minutes, we’d all be murdered in our beds.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he died, state prosecutors changed the charges against Mr. Dill from assault to capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Tell me the last time someone was prosecuted for putting a Grisha to the flames. Do you even call it murder when you put down dogs?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I owed it to myself, and to my siblings, to try to solve their murders. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They airlifted a huge shipment of guns to an opposition leader, who vowed personally to murder Neto. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yet he took it. That which should have been mine.' Still, I give you my word, you shall have justice for his murder." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s had nine murders since 1937—about the same as you would get in many small towns.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Morrison was convicted of Anna’s murder, Mollie could no longer look at Ernest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you know that man who was murdered? The one who was strangled and thrown in the canal?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With the OAS clamoring about all the jailings and executions, Trujillo was not going to murder a defenseless woman and dig his own grave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put miles behind her, put behind her the counterfeit sanctuaries and endless chains, the murder of Valentine farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were filled with research that over decades the family had obsessively collected about W. W. Vaughan’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had been murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred years, Lord Voldemort. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She said that for the rest of her life she could hear her two murdered sons calling to her in that ear. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He could have been murdered by one of many men he served time with in prison. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, that he was, what d’ya call it—capable of committing murder. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants’ killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians’ being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” he said, “that until this moment I believed I had murdered my mother?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t tell him. Let him have his peace. It’s hard enough with a murdered father; he don’t need to know what happened to the body.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant was coming, wrapped in shadows, huge and heavy and bent on murder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The pair was wanted for the murder of a white boy and wouldn’t make it back once the mob got wind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He did not think that Mace Tyrell would be so clumsy as to try to murder either Pycelle or Swyft, but if guards made them feel safer, let them have guards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Your irresponsible and misguided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama the atmosphere that has induced continued violence and now murder.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the people he claimed to have murdered turned out to be alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“My insulator has been murdered. I’m pretty sure of that. By the CCD. For the time being, I’ve got no way of contacting my clients.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The word murder was first mentioned by Sandy, to put us off the track. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s one crazy dude. I feel like he’s either going to murder everyone or be, like, a movie star. There’s no in between for that guy.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And while the suspicious life-insurance policy seemed to tie Hale to Roan’s murder, it did not provide a motive for the other Osage killings. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Yesterday a few Asian men were arrested for cabbie murders in Queens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or at least not as severe as, say, first-degree murder. Officially, of course, we’re all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A few months after I witnessed the grisly murder a strange feeling that I should end my own life suddenly came over me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I could almost murder Buddy for not having a phone,” she said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The “sources” also speculate that this could be a motive for her murder. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the legends of Hippasus’s murder are hazy, so too are the legends of Pythagoras’s end. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But when he doesn’t get his way, he screams bloody murder! Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me sad that this horrible murder moved the Freedom Writers’ story to the back cover, while Jeremy’s got the front page. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t see what that’s got to do with—’ ‘Then again, perhaps he was murdered himself. Perhaps he’s buried under someone’s patio.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange chances, but murder will out, ’tis said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Each one of the five murderers saying the others had done most of the murdering. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to know how Mr. and Mrs. Allen were murdered?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping to place the blame for the killings on Ernest, Hale’s lawyer recited the names of Mollie’s murdered family members, one after the other. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In their concentration camps, the Nazis murdered eleven million people, including over six million Jews. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

What would it matter if he were accused of murder and then executed because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral? The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On an April morning he found the body of a man who had been murdered. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Somebody in that room had murdered Sir Patrick in mistake for Gawaine, and until the murderer was discovered they would all be under the same suspicion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a widespread belief that Jews poisoned wells and kidnapped children to use in ritual murders. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Their deaths brought the official murder toll to nine—quite a large number for any footpath, no matter how you look at it—though in fact there probably have been more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What would she say when she learned that another sister had been murdered? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Your assumption was quite right. Mr. Ratchett was murdered. Stabbed. But I should like to know why you were so sure it was murder, and not just—death.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that a murdered body will bleed in the presence of the murderer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What about the people who don’t get caught? The people who never go to trial? They get away with murder too.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, the subject of the murders and the murderer came up, as it often still did throughout the neighborhood. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has brought the lords and ladies of Faerie here to win them over; even he seems to see that more murder is unlikely to do that. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of the first episodes was based on the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A Statue of Liberty lay like a dropped murder weapon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And she said that was like life, and not all murders were solved and not all murderers were caught. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the Age of Mortality love and murder often went hand in hand,” quipped Scythe Twain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The man explains the imprisonment and murder of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and how they were forced to wear purple armbands. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I will not be responsible for the murder of more chickens,” said Samuel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Hanged Man, the village pub, did a roaring trade that night; the whole village seemed to have turned out to discuss the murders. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Or was this, perhaps, the work of a repeat killer—someone like Dr. H. H. Holmes, who had murdered at least twenty-seven people, many of them during the 1893 World’s Fair, in Chicago? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Black’s already murdered a whole bunch of people in the middle of a crowded street. Do you really think he’s going to worry about attacking Harry just because we’re there?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instead I allowed myself to sacrifice this boy and his mother, perhaps even myself, and let the old man yell this one bloody murder, if only for Mitt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Zoe, I don’t know where you got this information, but Marcus is not innocent of murder. He’s in prison right now because he’s guilty.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

This other time, I saw a commercial for this movie about a man who was accused of murder, but he didn’t commit the murder. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes’s mother is no more than a stranger to him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“A murder! A murder of crows! Can you believe it? A bunch of trees, you’re a grove. A bunch of raccoons? A gaze.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“In my view, then, this murder is an entirely admirable happening! You will pardon my slightly biased point of view.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just from the night he was murdered. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"It melted, leaving no trace of a murder weapon." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, everyone was greatly relieved to find the murder weapon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“From the evidence thus far gathered,” an agent wrote, it appeared that “Hattie Whitehorn caused him to be murdered in order that she might get hold of his estate.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Yutar finished by saying that the case was not only one of high treason “par excellence,” but of murder and attempted murder — neither of which was mentioned in the indictment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaps savagely on the crab, there is a puff of black fluid, and the struggling mass is obscured in the sepia cloud while the octopus murders the crab. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could find nothing in the incomplete newspaper records to suggest that he had been murdered, or even that the fire had been arson. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We assume that most of them are being murdered. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For hours, in the hot, claustrophobic box, White and Smith went over the circumstantial evidence that they’d gathered on each of the murders, trying to trip up Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nor had any progress been made in the then-three-month-old probe of Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment, before he receded from history, too, White was eulogized as a good man who had solved the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The overwhelming popular consensus was that Burr had murdered Hamilton in cold blood. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Both men were indicted, along with Hayer, for the murder of Malcolm X on March 10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Southampton rebellion was smothered, Turner and his band murdered sixty-five men, women, and children. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We got some of the nation's best experts to review the gun evidence, and they con-eluded the Hinton weapon could not be matched to the murders. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After they book you in for something serious—murder, attempted murder, setting a person on fire on a bus—they put you in a camera room for the first twenty-four hours. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She explained that though many members of her family believed that Hale had wanted Vaughan silenced, they suspected that there was more to the murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The miscellaneous expenses also include the costs associated with a gang member’s murder. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These tensions are rooted in the very same depths as those from which love springs, or murder. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

By then all stores of food had given out and murder was everywhere upon the land. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And that was kind of funny, I thought, all of us thinking that someone else had been murdered, when really no one had been murdered at all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After taking over the Oklahoma City field office in July 1925, White reviewed the bureau’s voluminous files on the Osage murders, which had been amassed over the previous two years. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “You two have studied this. I only got it through my skin and not much of it stuck. Then Cain was driven out for murder?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"There was no murder. The coroner was part of the plot." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend Russell and his wife were murdered last February.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Dauntless woke to discover the black mark of murder on them, and they didn’t even choose it for themselves. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his dreams, a new age would come upon the world, an age of storm and of murder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The whistle, the salute, our hesitation on the verandah, the murder of the old man. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

People who knew Walter found it difficult to believe he could be responsible for a sensational murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That was before the tragic fire that took Mom and Dad. I was away at boarding school. Then me and my mates witnessed a murder and had to go on the run.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In addition to nearly fifty arrests on everything from theft to suspicion of murder, Hurd had been in prison in Colorado separate times for stealing, possession of narcotics, and a parole violation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this is a pretty typical case, except they were a little bit young—most of the murders that I see are thirteen- or fourteen-year-olds killing each other with guns. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Mudd had agreed to help Booth with the kidnapping of Abraham Lincoln, but no one had consulted him about murder! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora’s own act of murder he excused as a matter of self-protection, but Red’s naked bloodthirstiness was another matter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred cows. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, he formally asked ABI officials in Montgomery to conduct another investigation into the murder to confirm Mr. McMillian's guilt. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember reading of the Armstrong baby? This is the man who murdered little Daisy Armstrong—Cassetti.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Janice seemed sweet, I had no trouble imagining him capable of murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But juries, judging facts, found Redcoats not guilty of murder. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any event, Cleopatra knew about Berenice’s murdering ways, and she understood that people would do anything to achieve and maintain power. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our large family was devastated by his senseless murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I know that Jeanine decided to murder half a faction to steal it, so it must be incredibly important,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a long pause, she said, “There were a lot more murders during the Reign of Terror than people know about. A lot more.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now there are wars in the south, killings in the north, rumors that foreigners took over the army and want to murder Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that cop hadn’t murdered that boy, people wouldn’t have rioted, the daycare wouldn’t have burned down, and the church wouldn’t have let Jay go. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Our camp cabins have no AC, and you can’t leave the windows open at night because the mosquitoes will murder you! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“What are we supposed to tell them? Go scream bloody murder naked through the streets?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two men—and others—had murdered a boy, and now their fellow citizens had not only turned them loose but were celebrating. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The notes that ended up as the background music to her murder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“And you said, quoting, ‘Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long!’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s hope they won’t murder my feet like every other brand does. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After Roan’s murder, Hale had approached Bunch and said, “If I were you, I’d get out of town.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And in the process, he’d murdered my aunt, along with several of my neighbors, including sweet old Mrs. Gilmore, who had never hurt a soul. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Red’s act of murder was not spoken of. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, I thought, God had not seen the murder take place, and that is why He had not punished Tenorio. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This in itself would have been a crime, but it was worse than simple murder, for Iofur learned later that the other bear was his own father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like the universe expanding, or who committed a murder. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On top I put everyday clothes and at the last minute I happened to think of “wholesale murder” so I stuck in some first-aid equipment. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But at least his evil didn’t involve the widespread manipulation of an entire faction and the systematic murder of every political leader we have.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The very least Mrs. Dudley could murder me for in cold blood is uranium.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three close friends of Farmer’s had been murdered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the public gallery every seat had been taken, yet the courtroom suggested nothing of the carnival atmosphere sometimes found at country murder trials. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that she knew her letters, the word murder hooked her heart. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Many of them believed, as did Fischer, that he could be murdered while in prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt disproportionately terrible, like I had just been caught fleeing the scene of a murder. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’d murdered him, but what bothered me was that he had lost the right to say yes or no about what happened to him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We involved expert pathologists and persuaded local authorities that there was no basis on which to convict Marsha of murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is known is the truth about the barbaric practice of lynching has, in many ways, been suppressed and that this form of racial torture and murder left deep scars that remain with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Guiteau went on, “This is not murder. It is a political necessity. It will make my friend Arthur President.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew how these desolate homeless men felt, for she herself had come to Africa with a few friends fleeing from her brother who wanted to murder her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it well, but Marv murders it instantly with one savage breath. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fractured skull, no murder weapon, no motive, no leads. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yet the law had not been changed, and White suspected that this setback had prompted Hale to turn to the insurance murder plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The songs, the corridos became sad, and the meeting of the people from Texas with my forefathers was full of blood, murder, and tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists formerly idealized band and tribal societies as gentle and nonviolent, because visiting anthropologists observed no murder in a band of 25 people in the course of a three-year study. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court had ruled that the place where Roan had been murdered was indeed on Indian lands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I left, preferring a quieter death at Leo’s to being murdered in my bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By that time, by some purely subconscious means, I had developed a successful mental block about the murder and everything pertaining to it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

June’s relieved, only because she managed to find a way to protect him, even though it means the world is digging through her life for answers and evidence, which makes Alex want to murder everyone. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But the trial didn’t make any difference. These guys got away with murder anyway.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, since he was considered effeminate and a man who let himself be controlled by his mother, he was despised, and as a result the army plotted against him and murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were not really angry at each other; we knew that the idea of murder had been planted in each of us by the white men who employed us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Vaughan had gone to see Bigheart on his deathbed, perhaps Bigheart had incriminated not only Hale but also Burt in the murder plots. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He remembered the old stories about Maegor the Cruel, who murdered all the masons who la-bored on his castle, so they might never reveal its secrets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I really want to knit something, with a warm cup of hot cocoa, and watch cozy witch murder mystery shows on the telecast,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she demonstrated a wicked ability to murder. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed within himself the preacher’s haunting picture of life even before he had killed Mary; that had been his first murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Money. Someone could be holding her for ransom. It’s strange that her laptop is missing. Or she could have been murdered. Like, by someone who made her write the note.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s no telling what some nuts would say to an old man whose grandson might testify on the wrong side of a local murder trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

No vows to the crown matter now, and watching him murder his own family hasn’t left anyone feeling safe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But his instincts had failed him in the new set of circumstances presented by the murder. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could have kicked myself for being trapped with mean, murdering Okonkwo when The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders rattled around unread in the underbelly of our Greyhound. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Talking to the wrong person about these murders was liable to get one planted in the ground. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Followed by Dr. Constantine, Poirot made his way to the next coach and the compartment occupied by the murdered man. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Casually, as if she hadn’t just nearly murdered a slave, she opens the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This is what Jeanine was willing to enslave minds and murder people for—to keep us all from knowing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Worse than murdering all those poor people, you mean?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His team kicks off, but Manny’s players don’t move because he’s still gaping at Justyce like he just confessed to murder. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t the police arrest such people for murder?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To identify the murder weapon, the lawmen needed to extract the bullet that was apparently lodged in Anna’s skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He would never have been convicted of capital murder if he had just had the money for a decent lawyer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor, I spare you the ghasdy details of these murders. The witnesses have told all. “ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fine, upstanding people, despite a number of faults that Ophie could see, did not commit murder. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And only three of them were planning to murder her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And from the trees, a murder of crows, cawing their displeasure at the ruined world. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Billy expected the Tralfamadorians to be baffled and alarmed by all the wars and other forms of murder on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leahy outlined the alleged facts of the insurance murder plot in a matter-of-fact voice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why does the bread-thief die and the murdering thane escape by a sleight by the costliest of advocates ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the murders, Harry and Hugo had been spending most of their time in their rooms. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I think I understand the Fall. I could perhaps feel that in myself. But the brother murder—no. Well, maybe I don’t remember the details very well.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those monks who refused were murdered or made to work in minefields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cloak was in rags, and her flesh it was lean, And her eyes, her murdered eyes... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But beware, Claudius, for I have sworn by my father’s sword to avenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was “serving a life sentence for murder, when a new inmate walked into the shower room one day and stared at his face. “ Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white storeowner who had no relationship to Walter or his family had kept a copy of that flyer for some reason, and he confirmed that he had received it before the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the first draft I had Bigger going smack to the electric chair; but I felt that two murders were enough for one novel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The theory of Burt’s involvement in the murder of Bigheart and Vaughan, though, was still based on circumstantial evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was essential that everyone understood why he had to murder the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever advantage Myers thought he could gain by saying he knew something about the Morrison murder was clearly gone now. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Imagining entertaining at the long table we kissed against, my classmates all drinking the pale green wine and pretending they had never tried to murder me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No matter what he did or didn’t do about the murder suspect, he said, nothing was going to change Haiti in the long term. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The inconsolable 8-Deer took the throne of Tilantongo and declared war on Red and White Bundle, which he claimed had orchestrated the murder. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The most these psychiatric tests can accomplish along these lines is this: they can tell us that someday a particular person may commit a murder. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Narrated from Mollie Burkhart’s point of view, the poem is about the murder of Anna Brown: Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry for your brother... but we had no part in his murder.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was in the yard and Dinky came running out of the house screaming bloody murder. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later, he would learn that his entire family was murdered by the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I don’t say, because I’m sure she wouldn’t want everyone to know, is that Tori probably seemed explosive in Erudite headquarters because they murdered her brother for being Divergent. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He informed her that her husband, Ernest, had confessed that he knew something about these murder cases and that Hale had apparently engineered them, including the bombing of her sister Rita’s house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He still had about him the aura of rage that even murder cannot quell. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Faraday’s death was, to use the word Scythe Curie had taught her, murder? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But with Medgar Evers’s murder and colored people getting arrested and beat by the police, I’m sure she’s scared to death by now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom’s mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding. I’ll get the lights.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The State will contend that the other man who entered the store at that time, and who participated in the robbery and the murder, was James King. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things: and the Geats might reasonably be defined either way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Koios, and me, and the two of you. Kronos promised us mastery of the four corners of the earth for helping with the murder.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The word murdered gets stuck in my ear and suddenly it feels like someone is jabbing a finger into my throat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was before his father’s murder by the Klan, his mother’s emotional breakdown, and the subsequent scattering of his siblings and himself into an inadequate and inattentive foster care system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been much better if he had not said anything to Bessie about the murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s murder gave my teachers and parents and pastor the perfect opportunity to talk with us children about death and dying, about bombings and hatred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but she committed murder on my order. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Consequently, he believed the Soviets might be furious enough to, as he put it, murder him by “tinkering with the engine of a plane.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I will murder that Elihu Krupnik. Where is he? He is supposed to take her in. And look! You left her clothes on. They are filthy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I later found, amid the thousands of pages of records on the murders archived by the Bureau of Investigation, two other references to Burt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Although it had been only about ten days since the two women were murdered in Shenandoah National Park, there was already a small poster appealing for information. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone who didn’t murder most of his family onstage. Isn’t that automatically better?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But add a pair of commas, and Cora becomes the suspect: Cora, claimed Frank, planned the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One page would report hundreds of murders, crocodiles in the water, gangs of men rampaging. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if I could take a murder scene. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Or possibly a kidnapping. But the kidnapping might turn into a murder.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Something in his voice told me that if I didn’t do something quickly I’d witness my first murder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Westing wasn't murdered, the judge said so, but what about Sandy? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin felt a tiny bit less terrible about wanting to murder Adam. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was traditional to put a stone in the mouth of a person who had been murdered, to prevent him from speaking to the living if he returned as a ghost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once there, the police wanted to arrest him for murder. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"The murderer had to have a motive. How about this: A niece murders her rich uncle to inherit his money?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to attending protests over the murder at the Duke Chapel, he began reading about a branch of Catholicism called “liberation theology,” which Archbishop Romero had been preaching. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And how dare anyone suggest that it was lack of policemen that had resulted in those two very nasty and well-publicized murders? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel it. How did she murder? Whom did she murder?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some eugenicists advocated euthanasia, and in mental hospitals, this was quietly carried out on scores of people through “lethal neglect” or outright murder. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

In 1804, the Lions Bible had sons coming forth from lions instead of loins, and in the Murderers’ Bible of 1801, the complainers in Jude 16 did not murmur, they murdered. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The letter didn’t say anything about murder. We re just looking for a spy, right, Abilene?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took a step back, feeling nauseated, almost as though he were seeing a real body and not the cartoonish depiction of a murdered girl he’d glimpsed in a dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was this sick trickle of curiosity pumping through me, the same stuff that has everyone rubbernecking at a crash site or devouring the details of the latest, greatest murder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Yet so many of the murders of the Osage were so well concealed that such an outcome is no longer possible. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One day that July, less than two months after Anna’s murder, Lizzie stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Her father will murder me if she gets shot out there. Now, turn around and cover her eyes, unless you want her to watch....” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It was murder, all right. And the will says the murderer is one of us." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had not dragged the name of the Communist Party into this murder, I’d not be here,” Max said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Government had murdered the entire family, parents and children, to cover up what they had done. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was laid out carefully, not sprawled like a murder victim. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra had wanted to murder her on the spot, but only came out with a pathetic “Don’t you wish you knew!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let that boy go before they murder us!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a difficult version to believe, but there was no other more plausible, and no one could think of any motive for Rebeca to murder the man who had made her happy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My father sizes up the murder in my eyes in a split second and hits the power locks before I can leap out the passenger door. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’ll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“For a brother to murder a brother, as Hod killed Balder. This is abominable.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had always expressed affection for Anna—“We were mighty good friends,” he said—and during another visit Mollie could see him huddled with Ernest, apparently talking about hunting down whoever had murdered her sister. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From the time of Lincoln’s election in 1860, there arose several conspiracies to kidnap or murder him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not dead, not murdered by some local boys who thought he’d gotten too uppity—just “gone,” as if one day he’d up and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I must ask you the reason of these questions. What have they to do with the matter in hand—the murder on this train?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she forgot who I was and thought I'd come to murder her and screamed for help and had a stroke? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Crack led to desperation, desperation led to crime, and crime led to murders and destruction. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A witness had told the bureau that after Henry Roan’s murder, Hale was eager to get the corpse away from one undertaker and delivered to the funeral home at the Big Hill Trading Company. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What he was planning was beyond belief, a mass murder that would destroy Britain for generations to come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A murder of crows had gathered on one of the trees, cackling and flapping. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Theseus, the thinker, rejected the idea that a man could be guilty of murder when he had not known what he was doing and that those who helped such a one could be reckoned defiled. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, squished in between a wedding announcement and an article about yet another double murder at the Coltrane Projects, was a black-and-white picture of the thing that had attacked her last night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone wanted to know who had written about the murder. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Several weeks after the funeral, a man who’d been arrested in Kansas for check forgery sent a letter to Sheriff Freas claiming that he had information concerning Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“In fact, everything is much better. It was really a stroke of luck that you were almost murdered by that girl. Now the deal can go through perfectly.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Have these people forgotten history, don’t they know anything about the Scots, don’t they know any better than to clothe small girls in the colors of despair, slaughter, treachery and murder? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could anything that called itself the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” engage in wholesale murder? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports from agents and informants like Morrison suggested that several of these desperadoes had knowledge about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He felt that he ought to be able to reach out with his bare hands and carve from naked space the concrete, solid reasons why he had murdered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor, this testimony has no relevance to the charges of murder for which this court is convened, and I move that it be disallowed from jury and the trial records.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The years had passed, and now her husband was on trial for the murder of a man at sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Agent Burger wrote dismissively that it was an “isolated murder,” unconnected to the systematic killings. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The murders had created a climate of terror that ate at the community. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to imagine six million of my people murdered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some people start committing crimes when they’re young and keep on committing them, progressing from burglary to robbery to murder. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Katie was a neighborhood heroine for a while but as time passed, the neighborhood forgot the murdering pervert. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Doctorita will grin her evil grin, knowing she got away with murder. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks following the murder, several thousand people were arrested in Moscow and Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It just makes it worse! Because then they’ll accuse us of murder!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d been following current events in Latin America, including the murder of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero by a right-wing death squad. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was a murder victim, so he had certainly turned into an ngozi. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I did think getting a more informed view of Walter's conviction and the murder would make his life after release less dangerous—assuming we could ever get his conviction overturned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So outright murdering the sheriff in broad daylight is off the table, more’s the pity. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Take this sentence as an example: The butler says he saw the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need not offer apologies, Messieurs. I understand a murder has taken place. Naturally, you must interview all the passengers. I shall be glad to give all the assistance in my power.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were twenty feet above her, stopping the other Bludger from murdering Harry, Oliver,” said George angrily. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Pike explained that Hale took pains never to say explicitly that Bryan had been involved in Anna’s murder, but this was evident from what Hale was asking him to do. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

People said you could get away with anything in Key West, even murder. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The claim still influenced the jury, and the killer was convicted not of the boy’s murder but of firing repeatedly as the boys friends tried to retreat. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Reportedly, the murder was only routinely reported with little special interest by the press in Cairo, Beirut, New Delhi, and Saigon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she was facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence, she made a deal to accept a prison sentence of twenty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or was it that Jeremy murdered her without his best friend knowing about it? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The more of us they murdered the more bitter and angry we became, and the more we fought on and the more destruction we wreaked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black had proved twelve years ago that he didn’t mind murdering innocent people, and this time he had been facing five unharmed boys, four of whom were asleep. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And there is no difference between the killing of Prince Jones and the murders attending these killing fields because both are rooted in the assumed inhumanity of black people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There’s murder in her eyes when she talks about how grand the mayor’s dinner is going to be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard “guilty of murder” . . . “premeditated” . . . “extenuating circumstances.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Evidence of her guilt was conflicting, but she was found guilty of conspiracy in the president’s murder and sentenced to hang. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And of course he was doing a murder... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Three murders the first night, nine the second. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was outside Junior's trial, and me and T was kinda sparring over T being pretty sure Junior didn't do the murder he went down for. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Seen the people murdered in cold blood, the men and women, and the children, dying, the animals murdered or left to starve. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on duty the day he was murdered. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you saw the murder—” he stammered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who’s to say Officer Tison didn’t see them on the scene the night his partner was murdered right before his eyes? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And still others, unable to tolerate the continual ringing going on in their houses, often left their phones off the hook for hours, occasionally days, which was an open invitation to get murdered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intent of his queries, as he soon established, was to introduce a subject the prosecution had emphatically avoided: the question of Wells’ own role in the murder plot, and his own moral liability. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If what you say is true and Yakov was murdered by the very man he intended to kill, then I fear you will have no choice but to complete the job for him.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I will not suffer the murder of children. Accept that, or I’ll have no part of this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because these people dared not kill me, for my ancestors were jealously protecting me, they had resorted to do the next best thing to murder—blind me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did you allow Narciso to be murdered when he was doing good? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re saying that if white people had not murdered the Herero, the Jewish Holocaust would not have happened? I don’t see a connection at all!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To offer the dead body of Bessie as evidence and proof that he had murdered Mary would make him appear a monster; it would stir up more hate against him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as I watched the coverage of the story unfold, I was angered to hear that the Chapel Hill police weren’t considering the murders a hate crime. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At some point we asked him some direct questions about where he was on the day of the murder, which must have alarmed him because we heard from him less often after that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She also recalled that a house nearby had been “firebombed and everyone inside killed, murdered for their headrights.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The day after my parents were murdered was a Saturday. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was a married Spanish lawyer from Granada and said that he wanted to document the murders in Spain through a peephole in his overcoat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The senseless murder of these three young Muslims hit me hard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The boy admitted going out of his house at eight o’clock on the night of the murder after being punched several times by his father. 8TH JUROR: He didn’t say “punched.” Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They contained something that I’d never seen anywhere before: the secret testimony of the grand jury that in 1926 investigated the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The city’s murder rate was starting to tick upward—a sign of even more trouble to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Mercy,’ I said to myself, ‘maybe they’ve murdered every single soul on the train.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When someone commits a crime, he is tried, not murdered.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Didn’t believe his friend really wanted to be alone the night before the day of his own murder. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red Corn gave me the names of several Osage who, she thought, might have information about the murders, and she promised to later share with me a related story about her grandfather. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I said that two dogs were killed in The Hound of the Baskervilles, the hound itself and James Mortimer’s spaniel, but Siobhan said they weren’t the victims of the murder, Sir Charles Baskerville was. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I soon realized that Fannie’s murder was not an isolated instance, and the failure to pursue justice was not unusual at the time. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Peering into Bates’s grade book, a document that was later brandished about in the courtroom as if it were a murder weapon, he saw the notation “NC” for one of the daily homework grades. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma that dealt with the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Following the invading German army, mobile killing squads of the SS, called Einsatzgruppen, had swept through the villages of eastern Poland with the sole purpose of murdering Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Soon they plot to murder German children in their beds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He turns the TV back on to his murder mystery. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of Hale’s lawyers asked him if he’d ever spoken to Hale about the murder of Roan or any other Osage Indian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Especially in the dead of night, to inform him that our parents had been murdered. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Obviously, three of the murders Smith committed were logically motivated-—Nancy, Kenyon, and their mother had to be killed be cause Mr. Clutter had been killed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Testify for what? How could you know anything about that murder? You don’t even know anybody in Money.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

You know, the one that fine, upright boy admitted buying on the night of the murder. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see? If Ladybird organized all of this, she’s the one who tried to frame you for our murder!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jews were randomly beaten and close to one hundred were murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The government, meanwhile, began preparing to retry Hale and Ramsey for the murder of Roan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And after White had taken the job at Leavenworth, the cases were closed, closed with great triumph, even though the bureau had not yet connected Hale to all twenty-four murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The two of them were quiet until Anya said, “If I killed the dragon, would it be murder?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But as the technology of murder improves and the penalties of war increase, a great many people must be made to fly into murderous rages simultaneously for a major war to be mustered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of us in this room have had many murder cases assigned to us in the last several months. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not believe in the weapon salve or that murdered bodies bleed in the presence of the murderer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And the ordinary people who read about it in the papers said why should the fellow get off, he murdered his wife, didn’t he? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Based on the reports they heard, they had come to believe that all their family in Poland had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He felt awkward because she was going to murder him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He disclosed that he’d never really been hired to solve the murder of Anna Brown; in fact, he’d been asked to conceal Bryan’s whereabouts on the night of the crime. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Quite apart from murder by night on his own account, he may put any enemy that is about on our track.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We would deny the claims of murder and damage to innocent bystanders that the state alleged; either these claims were outright lies, or the incidents were the work of someone else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his study they prayed together for an hour, and then Father MacPhail granted the young priest the preemptive absolution that would make his murder of Lyra no murder at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No smoke had risen from the chimney since that fateful Halloween; still they stared up at the Westing house, murder on their minds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

No judge wants to deal with attack ads that highlight the grisly details of a murder case in which the judge failed to impose the most severe punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to die, it will be because I refused to murder a girl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gregg’s pretty looks were deceiving, according to a prosecutor, who said that he was “a cold cruel calculating type of criminal” who “would not hesitate to commit murder.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Facing charges of first-degree murder, George sat alone in front of an estimated crowd of fifteen hundred white people who had packed the courtroom and surrounded the building. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Scholars and investigators who have since looked into the murders believe that the Osage death toll was in the scores, if not the hundreds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They take turns leaning forward to point out their moves with shrewd congeniality, playing it like a chess match, the kind of game that allows civilized men to play at make-believe murder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every Muslim and plenty of non-Muslims saw the murders for what they were, a vicious hate crime, pure and simple. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“And they’d put me in jail for murder,” Mom cried, and the tears ran down her pale cheeks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Was I fair just now in describing your husband’s state of mind as ‘terribly excited’ on the morning of the sixteenth—the morning Carl Heine was murdered? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Officials are being indicted on everything from criminal negligence to conspiracy to commit murder. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The only thing these men are guilty of is their lack of taste. Before you two showed up, I was telling Mr. Whitby about Victor’s murder.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Fine. I’ve just seen Voldemort murdering a woman. By now he’s probably killed her whole family. And he didn’t need to. It was Cedric all over again, they were just there....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In brief, Nye learned only this: “Of all the people in all the world, the Clutters were the least likely to be murdered.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One American soldier warned Alfons that the murder of Jews was a burden that he would never shake off in his lifetime. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked young, but like all the women was fully dressed in dirty and bloodstained clothes so whatever funny business you expect in a war hadn’t happened here other than murder in cold blood. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the basis of one murder it has judged the character, honor, and integrity of the entire population. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

You have no other choice but to convict them for murder.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He made accusations of official corruption, talked about his involvement in the Pittman murder, and revealed his earlier attempts to recant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as this murder occurred, the people rose up and killed all the Canneschi. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There might be wholesale murder of foreigners up and down the Yangtse. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But though Gregg’s testimony offered the clearest indication yet that Hale had ordered the murders, it was of limited legal value. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had three months from the night of the murder to the day of the trial in which to memorize them. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama's capital statute requires that any murder eligible for the death penalty be intentional, but it was clear that Herbert had no intent to kill the child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t act like this isn’t all part of your extra-long game of abusing your position to murder Woody Allen and make it look like an accident,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Later, in the Eyrie, she laid the murder at the feet of the queen's brother 'iyrion." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of black people. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because of the security guard’s murder, Marco swears that he will never change money again. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Would the Germans decide to murder all of us before they left? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It follows, not only in a trivial sense but also I believe in a very deep psychological sense, that war is murder writ large. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two deserters were caught and prosecuted for murder, and Tom’s father attended each day of the trial until both men were convicted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He said he remembered better than anyone when she was murdered because he was her uncle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At Ford’s Theatre, the Deringer pistol, the murder weapon, was recovered from the floor of the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The request was from Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican with striking green eyes who could have been a fashion model if he hadn’t gone into robbery and murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The murder was an act of mad desperation, an attempt to derail the negotiations process. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August of 1982, activist Ruth First was opening her mail in Maputo, where she was living in exile, when she was murdered by a letter bomb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I am writing a murder mystery novel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of our passengers, a peasant farmer, had a son, Michela, who was being held on suspicion of murder. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I struggled to understand the horror he described, a murder spurred by jealousy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Several years after the Osage murder investigation, Wren, the Ute agent, was forced out of the bureau again, this time for good. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If the police suspected murder, she'd be in jail by now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left the empire after completing his prison sentence for another murder, the butchering of a rabbi’s son in Odessa. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I anticipate rewards for goodness, and wait for the ax of punishment to fall upon evil, in spite of the years I’ve rocked in this cradle of rewarded evils and murdered goodness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a whole collection of newly purchased murder weapons and dead UPS men in her basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“But what I killed for, I ami It must’ve been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff claimed that George had confessed to the murders, though no written or signed statement was presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But if the curious spectator stayed around long enough, it would have become evident that the crime of the man on the witness stand had nothing to do with murder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael and I decided to spend more time looking into the Pittman murder; we thought it might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Denmark had become a dangerous place, where lust led to murder and tyranny and bred new revenge. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Two bullets were retrieved from Whitehorn’s skull, and they appeared to have come from a .32-caliber pistol—the same kind of weapon that had been suspected in Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Yossarian watched him tinkering and felt certain he would be compelled to murder him in cold blood if he did not stop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And it was he who had photographed the corpses, those death-scene images Alvin Dewey had continuously pondered while the murders were still unsolved. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z