Unfortunately massacres seems to have become quite timely.
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Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
Shriver’s many strange enthusiasms have provided her with a wellspring of ideas, which in the past have produced highly topical novels—about school massacres, obesity, religion, and, yes, the national debt.
The crisis caused by Minneapolis killings Senators returned to work this week dealing with the fallout from the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers, as well as the killing of Renee Good in the city weeks earlier.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
Crisis after Minneapolis killings Senators returned to work this week dealing with the fallout from the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers, as well as the killing of Renee Good in the city weeks earlier.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Authorities later sought to retry Springsteen and Scott, but, in 2009, a judge dismissed the charges after advances in DNA testing, technology unavailable at the time of the murders, identified another male suspect.
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
The letter to Hull in which Pender allegedly confessed to committing the murders was later deemed a fake, with Hull himself admitting that his cellmate wrote it.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Feb. 2026
Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
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Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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