The phrase "assumed murder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a murder is presumed to have occurred, often in legal or investigative discussions.
Example: "The police are treating the case as an assumed murder until further evidence is gathered."
Alternatives: "presumed murder" or "alleged murder".
I'm not so sure that it's wise to bandy pictures of that (assumed) murder weapon around.
Sixteen days after April's disappearance and assumed murder, the hunt to retrieve her body and give her family closure goes on.
In exchange for the promise of damning information about Wennerström, Blomkvist agrees to investigate the disappearance and assumed murder of Henrik's grandniece, Harriet, 40 years ago.
Court-appointed forensic experts concluded that Calvi was not, as often previously assumed, murdered elsewhere and then suspended below the bridge.
But only recently has it received world attention, when 43 college students disappeared last September and are assumed murdered by the Guerreros Unidos, who had close ties to the mayor in the town of Iguala and reportedly viewed the students as a rival gang.
You can't help but shudder at the sinister nickname for British Columbia's provincial Autoroute 16, known as "The Highway of Tears," which is both a trucking passage and the winding graveyard of up to 42 Aboriginal women most of whom are assumed murdered by a series of serial killers.
You can't help but shudder at the sinister nickname for British Columbia's Provincial AutoRoute 16, known as "The Highway of Tears," which is both a trucking passage and the winding graveyard of up to 42 Aboriginal women most of whom assumed murdered by a series of active serial killers.
The awards are held in, without doubt, the most fascist-looking building I have ever set foot in – a naval and military club filled with terrifying portraits of men I can only assume murdered ceaselessly throughout their long and illustrious careers.
The evil clown is one of the forms the demonic It assumes to murder dozens of children in the fictional Derry, Maine.
But Kimbro, who also pleaded guilty to second‐degree murder and testified for the state, said he only "assumed" that the murder order had been relayed to Sams from Mr. Williams.
Warden Henderson, who described Woodfox as a "hard-core Black Panther racist," assumed that the murder was a political act.
