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  • From the money being gone from the register, I figured it was a stickup and homicide.†   (source)
  • The media lost interest, heading off to obsess over a Center City triple homicide.†   (source)
  • But there is an extremely fine line between a suicide and a homicide.†   (source)
  • I stand up straighter, make myself focus my eyes before this turns into a homicide.†   (source)
  • You sent me a fax of a homicide.†   (source)
  • Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from the larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of homicide.†   (source)
  • There were also two officers from the Homicide Squad, who took photographs of the wedding couple.†   (source)
  • As the sociologist John Shelton Reed has written, "The homicides in which the South seems to specialize are those in which someone is being killed by someone he (or often she) knows, for reasons both killer and victim understand."†   (source)
  • This case is now classified as a homicide.†   (source)
  • It looked, literally, like the scene of a shotgun homicide.†   (source)
  • Today it was about whether—in the case of homicide—the corpus delicti is the knife or the dead man whose death is the actual proof of the crime.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles Times Steve Lopez LAPD 911 Vice Homicide Narcotics.†   (source)
  • The weapons on the wall had been used in actual homicides and were provided by Chicago policemen; the skulls by an alienist at a nearby lunatic asylum; the blanket by a member who had acquired it while covering a battle between the army and the Sioux.†   (source)
  • Five unsolved homicides in the last two weeks.†   (source)
  • The goat-killer looked humanoid, which ruled out goat-on-goat homicide, but I'd seen enough of the Nine Worlds to know that humanoid didn't mean human.†   (source)
  • According to the learned Charles Lindhorn, a professor of anthropology at Boston University, homicide rates among the Pashtun tribes are way lower than homicide rates in urban areas of the United States.†   (source)
  • But he had not seen a homicide since the Hendrasen girl, and he did not want to see one now.†   (source)
  • Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world.†   (source)
  • I'm telling you, I can't have any more flower homicides on my conscience, I said.†   (source)
  • All you have to do is spit on the sidewalk, and the whole town figures you're the kind of guy who might commit homicide, and everyone in your family is likely just the same.†   (source)
  • OSHA was prompted, among other things, by the fact that homicide had become the leading cause of workplace fatalities among women.†   (source)
  • The terrorists they sought to destroy were responsible for unspeakable acts of evil including the construction of improvised explosive devices and explosives to equip homicide bombers.†   (source)
  • The police officer who took the case at Kansas City Homicide was named Reed Buente.†   (source)
  • The result, he suggests, was a tradition of aggressiveness, short tempers, and violence that still echoes in America's relatively high homicide rates.†   (source)
  • "Zoey, this is Detective Marx"—she pointed at the taller of the two men—"and Detective Martin from the homicide division of the Tulsa Police Department.†   (source)
  • One minute homicide, the next minute tea?†   (source)
  • Duntz agrees with him; having studied the files on unsolved Las Vegas homicides, he knows Smith to be innocent of this particular deed.†   (source)
  • The papers, LaTisha says, reported that it was the fifth triple homicide in the District in ten months.†   (source)
  • He worked homicide and knew how to talk to witnesses and suspects.†   (source)
  • It is not just another video homicide.†   (source)
  • HOMICIDES (PER 100,000 PEOPLE)†   (source)
  • It is a rare combination, and I think it is why I was more successful than any of the males in Homicide.†   (source)
  • Okay, now Mr. Lang, you have been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of driving under the influence.†   (source)
  • More murders are committed in Texas than any other state, and more homicides occur in Dallas than anywhere else in Texas.†   (source)
  • This merely states that Koenig was employed by the Gemeinschaft where a recent homicide took place ...and he had been a witness to the initial gunfire.†   (source)
  • Apparently Burt Welsh owed his election as district attorney in large part to his success in prosecuting Phil Switzer, aka BoneMan, who had allegedly killed seven young women by breaking their bones without breaking skin, although he had been convicted on only one count of homicide.†   (source)
  • The noise of the cicadas was enough to drive you to homicide.†   (source)
  • As an investigator, for years she'd dealt with puzzles that presented her with literally millions of pieces and that were hugely more complex than virtually any homicide case to which any police detective was ever assigned, mysteries of human action and machine failure that were solved not with miracles but with drudgery.†   (source)
  • Now, I don't know how many homicides they have out there in West Virginia but I guess it was pretty bloody.†   (source)
  • After I left the nursing home, I spent the next hour driving to Mountain City to stand next to a client who was entering a guilty plea to a reduced charge of negligent homicide in what had originally been a second-degree murder case.†   (source)
  • There have been racks of paperbacks with some great and good titles but overwhelmingly outnumbered by the volumes of sex, sadism, and homicide.†   (source)
  • Murder in the first degree—premeditated homicide—is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts.†   (source)
  • I'd like to clear a gang of dolphins of a homicide charge," he said.†   (source)
  • Its effect on me had indeed been so powerful that I had actually speculated—not idly either, but with a moment's seriousness, which rather scared me—on the physical and spiritual consequences to myself were I, too, to indulge in a little homicide tinged with metaphysics, plunge a knife, say, into the breast of some innocent old woman like Yetta Zimmerman.†   (source)
  • It was just a little subtler about its homicides now.†   (source)
  • I think Phoenix is actually higher up the homicide list, Dad.†   (source)
  • All three boys were arrested and charged with armed robbery and attempted homicide.†   (source)
  • Six of the homicides were committed in the first month, 11 in the second.†   (source)
  • Most juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment without parole had been convicted of homicide crimes.†   (source)
  • I guess I could throw in a few extra homicides, if it makes Jasper happy.†   (source)
  • The police say that it was a double homicide.†   (source)
  • Todd says that the two of you work homicide.†   (source)
  • Shifting him, she took out her communicator and called for a homicide team.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized that the charges might have included negligent homicide, or even manslaughter.†   (source)
  • Bail is hereby set at $2 million, one million for each count of vehicular homicide.†   (source)
  • Where there is a homicide, we must have an autopsy.†   (source)
  • This concludes Interview One, Mavis Freestone, Homicide file, Pandora.†   (source)
  • I was able to access all the data available on the Towers's homicide on the trip back.†   (source)
  • They can investigate a colonel's homicide as well as we can.†   (source)
  • Our homicide rate is also much higher than in those countries.†   (source)
  • Took a homicide to reveal the connection.†   (source)
  • This was a multiple-homicide investigation.†   (source)
  • Doesn't Tom Stone cover homicide for the Chronicle?†   (source)
  • Jerry Jaax called Kansas City Homicide nearly every day during October and November.†   (source)
  • For a lack of a specific writ, let's call it accessory to multiple homicide.†   (source)
  • Assuming everything is his fault, and that he was drunk, he's looking at vehicular homicide.†   (source)
  • Her life is just beginning, I silently prayed as we sped to the homicide scene.†   (source)
  • We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three.†   (source)
  • I verified homicide, secured the outer door, called for additional uniforms and a primary.†   (source)
  • Within a five-year period, the homicide rate among young urban blacks quadrupled.†   (source)
  • With an off-post homicide we usually go heavier than a one-man team, sir.†   (source)
  • Probable homicide, male, rear of 19 One hundred eighth Street.†   (source)
  • This is either the tenth or eleventh homicide committed by the Texas Highway Killer.†   (source)
  • "You're probably used to this sort of homicide," Hartwig said as we walked in.†   (source)
  • He might work on Simpson's behalf if the chief was involved in the Starr and Castle homicides.†   (source)
  • This thing brings homicide detectives and reporters coming around.†   (source)
  • It felt all wrong to be talking to Naomi's friend like a homicide detective, but I had to do it.†   (source)
  • This isn't exactly my first homicide, Jill.†   (source)
  • It was justifiable homicide, but the jury didn't exactly see it that way.†   (source)
  • And it is far more than the number of homicides eliminated each year due to legalized abortion.†   (source)
  • As a homicide lieutenant, I imagine you're familiar with the term.†   (source)
  • But we have seven homicides and a bombing to solve.†   (source)
  • I'm Homicide, but I'm not required to overlook health violations.†   (source)
  • I still didn't trust the Durham homicide detectives.†   (source)
  • Six years in Homicide, and I had never turned away.†   (source)
  • Peabody has little experience in illegals or homicide, Lieutenant.†   (source)
  • When Eve came around the building, he was doing a sober stand-up report on the recent homicide.†   (source)
  • It took nearly twenty minutes for her to requisition copies of the discs for the three homicides.†   (source)
  • There are basic and undeniable similarities between the two homicides.†   (source)
  • I WAS BACK in the South, back on this ugly homicide and kidnapping investigation.†   (source)
  • Now, Dickie, I need the toxicology on the Pandora homicide.†   (source)
  • THIS WAS WHY I had become a homicide detective.†   (source)
  • And at that time, the Illegals and Homicide departments agreed to cooperate on the investigation.†   (source)
  • If I've learned one thing as a homicide detective, it's that the lines don't stay fixed.†   (source)
  • I had never done that before, not in all my time as a homicide detective in Washington.†   (source)
  • Added to that is the fact that there is a suspect charged with the Pandora homicide.†   (source)
  • "I GOT A HOMICIDE HERE that fits the pattern of what you've been dealing with," McBride explained.†   (source)
  • The Durham homicide detective hesitated before he answered.†   (source)
  • Damn if he wanted to spend the night before his wedding picking apart a homicide.†   (source)
  • She had consulted on several serial-homicide cases, both as a lead examiner and an expert witness.†   (source)
  • "I'm right behind you," Sampson whispered in his deep, homicide-scene voice.†   (source)
  • I'd been in Homicide for six years now, the past two as lead homicide inspector.†   (source)
  • A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene.†   (source)
  • In a few weeks she wouldn't just be Eve Dallas, lieutenant, homicide.†   (source)
  • I've got an interview with him re the Pandora homicide.†   (source)
  • I'm a homicide detective involved with the Casanova murders in North Carolina," I told her.†   (source)
  • A huge command center was set up down the hall from Homicide.†   (source)
  • I had gone up against his firm once or twice in the witness box, testifying in homicide cases.†   (source)
  • A state-of-the-art homicide scene was already in progress.†   (source)
  • "You knew," Peabody said as they took the skyglide to the Homicide sector.†   (source)
  • Hell, it's almost fashionable, but he's not going to swing to four homicides.†   (source)
  • "Homicide Chicks," she came back with a satisfied grin.†   (source)
  • He was a homicide detective...but he was also sensitive and sexy and generous.†   (source)
  • What flashed through my mind was that fully 90 percent of all homicides were about money or sex.†   (source)
  • If these cases are linked with illegals, they are still homicides, which she has been investigating.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Dallas, you are primary on the Johannsen and the Pandora homicides.†   (source)
  • At this point, our belief that these three homicides are linked still falls short of solid proof.†   (source)
  • Jonathan Heartly agreed that there was a likely connection in the three homicides.†   (source)
  • You're going to nail down these homicides, Eve, then we'll both be sitting pretty.†   (source)
  • We have three separate homicides, and evidence points to one killer.†   (source)
  • It does a lot to tie the three homicides together.†   (source)
  • But when the homicide detective started asking whether the hiker sounded like anyone he knew, Sam reports, "I was pretty sure it was Chris.†   (source)
  • Live homicide.†   (source)
  • I had been charged with DWI and vehicular homicide, but they dropped the vehicular homicide charge because of my age and gooddriving record.†   (source)
  • We estimated there were fewer than two hundred juvenile offenders serving life without parole for non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • The police are not calling the recent rash of homicides and disappearances the work of a serial killer.†   (source)
  • We also focused on the children who, like Joe Sullivan, Ian Manuel, and Antonio Nunez, had been convicted of non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • This killer — if, in fact, it is one person — would then be responsible for 39 linked homicides and disappearances within the last three months alone.†   (source)
  • Even smaller numbers accompanied the Court's decisions banning the death penalty for non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • Dr. Spitz testified for the defense that he would "absolutely not" declare a live birth, let alone a homicide, under the circumstances of this case.†   (source)
  • I was spending more and more time in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, which together had close to 90 percent of the non-homicide cases.†   (source)
  • The judge detailed Mr. Caston's forty-five years at Angola for a non-homicide crime when he was sixteen.†   (source)
  • We ended up taking on almost one hundred new cases following the court's ban on life imprisonment without parole for kids convicted of non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • In death penalty cases, the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1987 that introducing evidence about the status, character, reputation, or family of a homicide victim was unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • In Alabama, even though 65 percent of all homicide victims were black, nearly 80 percent of the people on death row were there for crimes against victims who were white.†   (source)
  • By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime.†   (source)
  • The Court granted review in Joe's case and in another Florida case that involved a sixteen-year-old teen convicted of a non-homicide and sentenced to life with no parole.†   (source)
  • Another inmate housed with Joe wrote to us and described him as disabled, horribly mistreated, and wrongfully condemned to die in prison for a non-homicide crime at thirteen.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling banning life imprisonment without parole for children convicted of non-homicide crimes, hundreds of children condemned to die in prison are now being resentenced and dozens have already been released.†   (source)
  • On May 17, 2010, I was sitting in my office waiting anxiously when the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible.†   (source)
  • In particular, the Louisiana clients serving life without parole for non-homicides faced many challenges.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, Enstice had a history of prematurely and incorrectly declaring deaths to be homicides without adequate supporting evidence.†   (source)
  • Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides.†   (source)
  • The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.†   (source)
  • Because both Joe's case and the Graham case involved non-homicides, it was likely that if we won a favorable ruling from the Court, it would only apply to life-without-parole sentences imposed on juveniles convicted of non-homicides, but that was an exciting possibility.†   (source)
  • The irony, of course, is that no sentence imposed by a court for homicide could trump the one that's ravaged me in prison.†   (source)
  • They were dealing with at least three homicides, the bodies found buried on the property, along with the kidnapping and assault of Salander's friend Miriam Wu, and arson to top it all off.†   (source)
  • Like a homicide detective.†   (source)
  • He was apparently pretty quod at serial killing, as one might expect of a prodigy, since he never got caught and indeed probably no one would have ever known about Hodel except his son—true story—became a homicide detective in California, and through a series of amazing coincidences and some pretty solid police work, became convinced that his dad was a murderer.†   (source)
  • All five of the states that vied for the right to prosecute York and Latham endorse judicial homicide: Florida (electrocution),Tennessee (electrocution), Illinois (electrocution), Kansas (hanging), and Colorado (lethal gas).†   (source)
  • Maundy Thursday, March 24 The responsibility of leading the preliminary investigation into the double homicide in Enskede landed officially on Prosecutor Richard Ekström's desk at 7:00 on the morning of Maundy Thursday.†   (source)
  • John Jaax had been having difficulties with his partner in the plastic business, a man named John Weaver, and Kansas City Homicide looked at the partner as a suspect.†   (source)
  • Robbery and homicide were preferable.†   (source)
  • It's rural, and from what I understand they do not have an official homicide detective; uniforms will lead the investigation.†   (source)
  • Homicide rates fell from 30.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 to 8.4 per 100,000 people in 2000, a change of 73.6 percent.†   (source)
  • It is a homicide recorded by a child who thought she was doing something simple and maybe halfway clever, shooting some tape of a man in a car.†   (source)
  • Two counts of vehicular homicide at five to twenty-five a pop. Don't know how it'll go down, but Judge Noose is tough in these cases.†   (source)
  • —Subject C. J. Morse, position Interview Room C, Interview conducted by Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, re Homicide, victim Louise Kirsky.†   (source)
  • We're working a homicide case together.†   (source)
  • It would therefore seem likely that our homicide rate is so high in part because guns are so easily available.†   (source)
  • I was an E-felony, criminally negligent homicide, reduced from a charge of manslaughter in the second degree, and we played game after game of half-court, going all-out and taking deep and healthy breaths and having a tussle or two.†   (source)
  • This is Nadine Furst, reporting direct from Lieutenant Eve Dallas's office in the Homicide Division of Cop Central.†   (source)
  • These statistics, compiled by the criminologist Manuel Eisner, track the historical homicide levels in five European regions.†   (source)
  • I was here on a serious charge, a homicide by whatever name, destruction of life under whatever bureaucratic label, and this was where I belonged, confined upstate, but the people who put me here were trifling with my mind.†   (source)
  • Under normal circumstances there would have been two other investigators on a homicide scene, with recorders for sound and pictures.†   (source)
  • Then it just becomes another homicide.†   (source)
  • And when he died, whatever the circumstances, they would suddenly, all those elements that despised his unchecked power—they would invert their distrust and begin to float rumors that the Director himself was the victim of a wry homicide planned and carried out by unknown parties in the vast and layered webwork of the state.†   (source)
  • And maybe you dropped some hints that until they knew for sure what was behind it all it was better to go in light with just one CID agent, treat it like a normal homicide investigation?†   (source)
  • A homicide right in the lap of the media was going to be hard enough to deal with, without the vultures flying.†   (source)
  • Homicide fell at a greater rate during the 1990s than any other sort of crime, and a number of reliable studies have shown virtually no link between the economy and violent crime.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Dallas, a veteran officer with more than ten years of experience on the force, is in charge of the Starr homicide.†   (source)
  • Chief Simpson, I have information that indicates the Starr homicide is linked with the DeBlass case—not only because both women were engaged in the same profession.†   (source)
  • The Kirski homicide, Peabody.†   (source)
  • And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes.†   (source)
  • "Homicide," she said briefly.†   (source)
  • Consider the historical trend in homicide (not including wars), which is both the most reliably measured crime and the best barometer of a society's overall crime rate.†   (source)
  • Hooked yourself another homicide?†   (source)
  • Probable homicide, female.†   (source)
  • The typical gun buyback program yields fewer than 1,000 guns—which translates into an expectation of less than one-tenth of one homicide per buyback.†   (source)
  • When questioned as to whether there was any connection between the Starr homicide and the mysterious death of Senator DeBlass's granddaughter, he flatly denied it.†   (source)
  • But that is only the case for crimes with a direct financial motivation—burglary, robbery, and auto theft—as opposed to violent crimes like homicide, assault, and rape.†   (source)
  • Homicide.†   (source)
  • Wanted for robbery homicide.†   (source)
  • Dallas, Homicide.†   (source)
  • If you subtract that 18 percent from New York's homicide reduction, thereby discounting the effect of the police-hiring surge, New York no longer leads the nation with its 73.6 percent drop; it goes straight to the middle of the pack.†   (source)
  • She had two hours before her official shift began, and she wanted to use every minute of it on the DeBlass-Starr homicides.†   (source)
  • Mass murderers are changing the face of modern homicide investigations in every American city, village, and town.†   (source)
  • From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men.†   (source)
  • Confirmed Homicide.†   (source)
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