Sentence examples for major murder from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Jordan, an African-American, had fired veteran white staff members, who then sued over reverse discrimination and won damages. As drug violence soared after Hurricane Katrina, his office failed to indict major murder suspects).

The interest of the press may be "challenging", but he cites two major murder investigations during his time as head of Merseyside when it was critical to bring the offenders in.

The decision to overturn Brendan Dassey's 2007 conviction marks the third time in 18 months that a TV series or a podcast has played a decisive role in a major murder case.

But as Burge was removed from the force more than two decades ago, Lee Harris was just beginning a 90-year sentence for a major murder case Richard Zuley couldn't seem to close without him.

The first series of the police drama Prime Suspect, written by Lynda La Plante and following DCI Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren) as she led her first major murder investigation, was aired by Granada TV in 1991, to wide acclaim.

The city's denizens have survived the Federal Flood in 2005 and at least two major murder epidemics: the current killing wave, which recently landed New Orleans on Foreign Policy's list of "Murder Capitals of the World", and a mid-90s crime wave in which New Orleans reigned as the murder capital of the United States.

For years, police officials in New York have disclosed statistics in major crimes — murder, rape, robbery, burglary, serious assault and theft.

What "Popular Crime" amounts to is an intellectual walkabout consisting of James's musings on just about every major American murder case you can think of, the more lurid the better.

Earlier this year the Washington Post published an article entitled "In major cities, murder rates drop precipitously".

The most recent, "Majoring in Murder," set on a fictitious Midwestern college campus, was published by Signet April 1 with the names of both Mr. Bain and the fictional detective Jessica Fletcher on the cover.

Stunning news from Afghanistan, where two relatively high-ranking US officers, a colonel and a major, were murdered early Saturday in a highly secure area of the Afghan Interior Ministry headquarters in Kabul.