I have wondered for decades why the incident in which my great-uncle was murdered is simply called a "disaster" in the popular media, while more recent events are called "massacres," "mass killings," "killing sprees," "mass murders," "rampage killings" and such.
Pakistan continued an "alarming" killing spree it embarked on when it lifted a moratorium on civilian executions in December 2014.
Decades later a different group of Armenian "revolutionaries" embarked on a revenge killing spree of Turkish diplomats from Vienna to Sydney.
LOS ANGELES — Police believe the suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" killing spree may be responsible for even more murders than initially thought.
Probably some kind of sugar-fuelled, lady madness clocktower killing spree while snapping their jaws down on more and more little chocolate balls like deranged hungry hippos.
"Iran's killing spree continues with the mass execution of at least 10 prisoners on 2 August at Rajaee Shahr prison," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
The accidental heroine * Patricia Maisch has been hailed as an unlikely hero after helping to stop the killing spree of the alleged Tucson gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and almost certainly preventing him from killing more than the six people who died.
Few have been allowed past the police cars and barricades still guarding the roadway and into the building where Adam Lanza, for reasons still unknown, went on a horrifying killing spree before fatally shooting himself.
A1 Serial Killer Admits Guilt Ending a terrifying murder mystery that confounded the police for two decades, Gary L. Ridgway pleaded guilty to strangling 48 young women in the Seattle area during the Green River killing spree in the 1980's.
And if Ivins was known to have begun his killing spree in 2000, and the FBI knew about it, why was he allowed to continue working in the lab, with his high-security clearance as late as just last month?
The suit, filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Miami, arises in the midst of a fierce killing spree of union workers across Colombia, most of them slain by gunmen who belong to the main paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, union organizers and human rights groups contend.
