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murderesses

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The statement came after Roth detailed a sequence in the film to Polygon that features a cartoon that seemingly hypnotizes children, turning them into murderers.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Not only did the scale of the broader violence across the South indicate a campaign to mass-murder an ethnic subgroup for political purposes, but Tillman, perhaps the most infamous of the Hamburg murderers, never denied the attack’s goals.

— Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

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Many of Ellis’s most awful characters are the most conventionally attractive, their looks serving as a shield against their various crimes; Murphy co-created The Beauty, in which tech moguls and assassins kill to be beautiful.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
Authorities were seeking both the assassins and masterminds of the crime, according to the president.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

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Again, there were far fewer serial killers in Murphy’s own tales, but the message was the same.

— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Nearly 30 years ago, rap superstar Tupac Shakur was headed to an afterparty in Las Vegas when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, his unknown killers speeding away from the scene in a white Cadillac.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026

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