Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This June, Melissa Drexler of Ocean County, N.J. was charged with murder when, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an autopsy found that her six-pound baby boy had "died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation or obstruction of the mouth or nose." In the proceeding investigation it was revealed that Drexler had given birth to the baby at her high school prom and then disposed of him in the trash...
...November of 1996, college first-years Amy Grossberg and Brian C. Peterson Jr. were charged with murder after allegedly consigning their newborn son to a dumpster outside the room they had occupied at a Comfort Inn in Delaware...
...stories all adhere to the same, well-oiled formula. First, there is a murder in an unusual setting, followed by categorization of the possible suspects, and detective Adam Dalgliesh's investigation into the mysterious affairs. A Certain Justice follows this recipe--but in this case, there are two murders that must be solved. The novel, strangely enough, begins with a trial--the strong, stubborn Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of brutally killing his aunt. Aldrige knows that Ashe is guilty, but she's learned over the years that winning is always the goal. There is no room...
...surprise then that she is murdered soon after? James makes the scenario slightly more melodramatic, however, by fooling around with the murder scene. Venetia is found in her office, stabbed through the heart--wearing a judge's wig and covered in blood that is not her own. The initial horror of the murder makes the subsequent investigation all the more fascinating...
...front of several buildings is stalked and killed by man. Trying to outwit his assailant as he speaks with him on a cell phone, the man is pied-pipered to his own doom. It could be anybody, really (well, so long as he had suffered through a mass-murder scandal in the past), though here it happens to be Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy...