Sentence examples for title of murder from inspiring English sources

Detroit is an annual competitor for the ignominious title of Murder Capital.

Marabá, which would become capital of south Pará, would inherit the title of murder capital and spare Maceió its shame.

Crime statistics show New Orleans competing with Washington, D.C., and Gary, Indiana, for the title of Murder Capital, U.S.A.

It was Ward 8 that once helped to earn Washington the title of Murder Capital of America, and while life here has improved considerably in the past decade it remains a neighbourhood where a third of all residents live below the poverty line, it has the highest number of high school drop-outs and obesity levels, the highest rates for assault, sexual abuse and, still, homicide.

In the 1990s, Ciudad Juárez became infamous for the staggering numbers of young women who disappeared from it, and between 2008 and 2011 the city held the dubious title of murder capital of the world.

After Chicago posted a 16percentt increase in homicides in 2012, leading the nation in the number -- but not per-capita rate -- of fatal shootings, the city earned the misleading title of "murder capital" in the eyes of many, a reputation that continues to this day.

In recent years, these Central American nations have competed for the unwanted title of global murder capital.

If things hold to form, this city of 3.8 million people will earn the title of the Murder Capital, succeeding Chicago.

Ami Canaan Mann's "Texas Killing Fields," inspired by true events, sees a trio of detectives investigating the sinister stretch of bayou and coastal plain of the title, where numerous bodies of murder victims, mostly women, have been found.

Would Mr Greenberg, whose nose for risk was legendary, have limited the exposure to CDOs? Perhaps, although he failed to stop the questionable deals that had given Mr Spitzer the ammunition to use against him.For some, the demise of AIG was not the suicide described in the book's title, but an act of murder by Goldman.

If the book's title, "The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars" (Crown, $26) borders on hyperbole (literally — tabloids came later), Mr. Collins nonetheless delivers a riveting account of what, years later, Walter Winchell would hail as "the first of the great newspaper trials".