Sentence examples for straightforward murder from inspiring English sources

But it wasn't straightforward murder.

By then a straightforward murder case had turned into a racial litmus test.

Three months after the attack, the police ask for her help again in a seemingly straightforward murder inquiry - a young runaway has been killed near a London canal.

But this is no straightforward murder mystery; Pamuk explores death, love and the nature of Islamic art with immediacy and an awareness of its cultural resonance.

What did happen, in the end, was something of a straightforward murder trial, stripped of the larger, inflammatory political aspects, leaving it up to 12 jurors to sort through a familiar assortment of evidence: witness testimony and forensic findings.

Prosecutors say that they consider it a straightforward murder case and that they intend to try it without delving into Mr. Muhammad's religious conversion, political beliefs or possible ties to terrorists.

Proponents of Guantánamo have drawn a cartoon of our criminal justice system, as though it were designed only for simple, straightforward murders and bank robberies (not that murders and robberies are always straightforward).

It sounded like a straightforward confession to murder, which could have brought Mr. Pillco a sentence of 25 years to life in prison, if he had been convicted by a jury.

'Not since the first Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer have I seen such a gripping, straightforward look at murder (albeit, with a very different motive).

If there had been a more straightforward telling of the murder and its solution the enjoyment of the story would have been intensified.

Beginning as a seemingly straightforward police investigation into a murder, the story spirals out into a plot involving the imprisoned King George and the development of atomic weapons.