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The Zodiac Killer is a mass murderer who terrorized the city of San Francisco from 1968 to 1970.
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
His assault received a high degree of media attention but was often presented as an anomaly, and Breivik himself was sometimes portrayed as a mentally unhinged mass murderer rather than as a terrorist, even though his violence was explicitly political.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Hern received his first death threat two weeks after his clinic opened, in 1973, and has spent fifty years under constant harassment from people who view him as a mass murderer.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
Carrie becomes a mass murderer, and Nancy turns her coven against one of her less assertive friends.
—Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
Almost from the very beginning, Mr. Calley polarized Americans who variously deemed him a war criminal or a scapegoat, a mass murderer or an inexperienced officer made to take the fall for the actions of his superiors.
—Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
In August, the mass murderer was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
Yet the Biden administration continues to act as if Hamas’s mass murderer in chief has a conscience.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 15 June 2024
Free of the divisive debate over the nuclear issue, Washington would be able to focus on the character and nature of a regime that represses its population and has recently installed a mass murderer as president.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2021
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
His assault received a high degree of media attention but was often presented as an anomaly, and Breivik himself was sometimes portrayed as a mentally unhinged mass murderer rather than as a terrorist, even though his violence was explicitly political.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Hern received his first death threat two weeks after his clinic opened, in 1973, and has spent fifty years under constant harassment from people who view him as a mass murderer.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
Carrie becomes a mass murderer, and Nancy turns her coven against one of her less assertive friends.
—Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
Almost from the very beginning, Mr. Calley polarized Americans who variously deemed him a war criminal or a scapegoat, a mass murderer or an inexperienced officer made to take the fall for the actions of his superiors.
—Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
In August, the mass murderer was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
Yet the Biden administration continues to act as if Hamas’s mass murderer in chief has a conscience.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 15 June 2024
Free of the divisive debate over the nuclear issue, Washington would be able to focus on the character and nature of a regime that represses its population and has recently installed a mass murderer as president.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2021
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“Mass murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20murderer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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