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Cabot, clearly mortified, turned and hid her face, and Andy Byron sunk out of the frame like the guilty party in a lineup of potential perps.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025 -
The perp then sprayed the mother in the face and arm with the irritant as the train approached the Court Square-23rd St. station.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2025
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Betty Ann Tomlinson, 50, was charged Thursday afternoon with arson, conspiracy to commit arson and assisting a criminal.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Genetic genealogy: Building the family tree of a serial killer Retiree Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her hobby of researching her family tree would lead to the capture of one of the most notorious criminals in California, the Golden State Killer.—
David Morgan
July 11,
CBS News,
11 July 2025
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Ten years later, Jack and Jackie fell in love—and two months later, Jack was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas.—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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After 50-plus years behind bars, Houten walked out in 2023. — In 2022, Newsom rejected the release of Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan — which parole commissioners had recommended.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
17 July 2025
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Cops were scouring the area for surveillance video in the hopes of identifying the gunman.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
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Hundreds of people, including children, were hanging out in the area in and near the park when multiple gunmen started shooting blindly, hitting three women and five cars, some with adults and children inside.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
18 July 2025
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The suspect was booked into Vista jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, being a felon in possession of firearms and making criminal threats.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 July 2025
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Molina-Montalvo pleaded guilty on March 28 to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, court records show.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
16 July 2025
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The film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last year, follows a group of seven samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th-century Japan.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
22 July 2025
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Riri joins their band of bandits — hacker Slug (Shea Couleé), pyrotechnic master Clown (Sonia Denis), enforcers Jeri (Zoe Terakes) and Roz (Shakira Barrera) aka the Blood Siblings.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
11 July 2025
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Its victims, malefactors, and investigators are largely without personality, their function being merely to leave or follow trails, and to wear out a reader with anticlimax after anticlimax.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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The sense of purpose that motivated Bush after 9/11, combined with his visceral antipathy to Saddam—who was, after all, one of the great malefactors of the modern age—brought moral clarity, as well as strategic myopia.—
Hal Brands,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Feb. 2023
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Now Sean Hannity is set to examine some of the American west’s most famous outlaws in a new series for the Fox News streaming platform, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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Of course, players might also decide to come in on the outlaw side to better rub elbows with historical figures like Al Capone.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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“Perpetrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrator. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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