as in assassin
a person who kills another person
the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
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That insistence on an audience seeing themselves in his subjects — whether Indonesian murderers or a family complicit in global destruction — is what makes Oppenheimer’s films so fascinating and complicated.
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
Cross stars Aldis Hodge (Underground, Leverage) as the titular detective, a forensic psychologist who is uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify — and ultimately capture — the murderers.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
That was also something that was unique, and maybe uniquely dangerous about Bob’s group, is that a lot of the people who joined and then became violent bank robbers and murderers had not been criminals before.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
Defense attorneys John Kopp and Liam Dixon say their client was misunderstood — and as a firefighter, was a responsible person, not a murderer.
—Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2024
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
Cross stars Aldis Hodge (Underground, Leverage) as the titular detective, a forensic psychologist who is uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify — and ultimately capture — the murderers.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
That was also something that was unique, and maybe uniquely dangerous about Bob’s group, is that a lot of the people who joined and then became violent bank robbers and murderers had not been criminals before.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
Defense attorneys John Kopp and Liam Dixon say their client was misunderstood — and as a firefighter, was a responsible person, not a murderer.
—Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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