Sentence examples for torso murders from inspiring English sources

Sarah Pinborough based her latest novel, Mayhem (Jo Fletcher Books, £14.99), on a series of Victorian crimes known as the Thames torso murders and weaves real-life characters into a compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller.

The killings caused a stir in the city, but it wasn't until nine months later, in June 1936, when another headless body was discovered only a little ways away from the first two, that the legend of Cleveland's Torso Murders was born.

"The Torso Murder," as it was dubbed by the tabloids, caused a sensation in the state.

The Torso Murder-mania only built from there.

The Guatemalan prosecutor investigating the crime was murdered, too, his decapitated torso left in a trash bag outside the governor's house.

Most notorious is Douglas's older brother, Robert, who was arrested last year and charged with murdering a man whose torso washed up in Galveston Bay.

Just 48 hours after the murder of Eddowes, the torso of a woman (believed to be Lilly Vass), sawn through at the pelvis, was discovered in the foundations of what would become Warren's new police headquarters on Victoria Embankment, New Scotland Yard.

A: The Border Agency documents reviewed by ScienceInsider cite no scientific literature but refer to the use of isotopic evidence to pinpoint the origin of a 2001 murder victim, whose dismembered torso was found in the Thames reviver, to a small area within West Africa.

Police are hunting a 57-year-old man in connection with a murder after a woman's torso was found in a suitcase.

Old Man of Seyðisfjörður or Old Man of Murder Victim?) Andri thinks the torso may have come off the weekly ferry that has just arrived, captained by nice Danish Theis from series one of The Killing, and Borgen.

In this highly publicized murder in 2001, only the mutilated torso of a teenager was found in the Thames river.