murder weapon

noun

: the weapon used to commit a murder

Examples of murder weapon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Dad: Gun was hidden in armoire, bullets stashed under jeans On Day Three of testimony, more details were disclosed about where the murder weapon was stored before the then-15-year-old shooter used it to terrorize his school. Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024 Greitens said in his order that contemporary forensic tests had revealed DNA on the murder weapon did not match Williams, and noted that the testing did not exist at the time of his criminal trial. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 June 2024 Paula Mitchell, executive director of the Innocence Project, told the judge that Peterson’s 2004 conviction was based entirely on circumstantial evidence — with no murder weapon, no witnesses and no determination of the cause, time or date of death. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024 With no fingerprints, no DNA and no murder weapon, the state’s case against Davis depends largely on witness Darrel Mason. Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024 Shortly after the shooting, investigators found the murder weapon – a 9mm handgun – submerged in a pond behind Singh’s apartment. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 14 May 2024 Police later recovered the murder weapon roughly 35 feet from Singh’s porch inside that pond. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 May 2024 His father bought the murder weapon four days earlier as an early Christmas gift for the teen. Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2024 And who would try to get rid of a murder weapon by burying it in the backyard of the house where the murder took place, right in the middle of the lawn, in a rectangle of earth that sticks out like a sore thumb? Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Mar. 2024

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“Murder weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder%20weapon. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.

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