multimurder
English
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[edit]multimurder (not comparable)
- Involving more than one murder.
- 2014, James O'Callaghan, Manila Gold:
- Sergeant Vincensio Mahero once again received a call to view a multimurder scene that indicated it to be a professional execution, possibly of a political nature.
Noun
[edit]multimurder (countable and uncountable, plural multimurders)
- Multiple murders, especially when committed by a single killer.
- 1973, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime, Street Crime in America, page 420:
- Before firing a shot, an officer must consider the fact that regardless of what a man has done—multimurder or what have you—the State of Michigan has no capital punishment.
- 1980, William Aiken, Hugh LaFollette, Whose child?, page 44:
- The macabre multimurders and the trial that convicted Manson commanded national media attention.
- 2016, Laurence A. Rickels, The Psycho Records, page 103:
- That the structure of collection folding out of or into multimurder was not neutral but hellbent on extending torment beyond the grave, rests its case.
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