murder weapon

noun

: the weapon used to commit a murder

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Separately, New York Police Department dive teams continued to search the waters in Central Park Monday for the murder weapon after searching all weekend, and have cordoned off the lake behind Bethesda Fountain, CBS reported. —

Lindsey Choo, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 The murder weapon has not yet been recovered and a motive for the deadly violence is also still unclear. —

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Nov. 2024 The danger of over-indulgence was a literary device in countless Victorian novels, yet as English writers mastered the mystery genre in the 1920s and ’30s, food itself became a murder weapon, frequently wielded by those hoping to combat social mores. —

Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 24 Oct. 2024 So then how did Reeves' DNA get on the guide rod of the murder weapon? —

Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for murder weapon

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