Their style of crime fiction came to be known as " hardboiled ", which encompasses stories with similar attitudes concentrating not on detectives but gangsters, crooks, and other committers or victims of crimes.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other's heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

The fourth came in St. Joseph, Missouri where Thompson and his hired bodyguard between them shot two men attempting to rob a poker game ( again, the victims were known criminals and no charges were pressed ).

Hickey also noted that among serial killer victims after 1975, one in five victims placed themselves at risk either by hitchhiking, working as a prostitute or involving themselves in situations in which they often came into contact with strangers.

A seminal moment came in December 1970 with the famous Warschauer Kniefall in which Brandt, apparently spontaneously, knelt down at the monument to victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In 2005, it came to light that Shipman might have stolen jewellery from his victims.

Armand Fallières, president of the Republic, and his government came to Calais for a state funeral for its 27 victims.

This part of the river was a favorite Indian campsite, and the settlers who came beginning in 1741 were several times victims of attack.

When the huge extent of asbestosis losses came to light in the early 1990s, for the first time in Lloyd's history large numbers of members refused or were unable to pay the claims, many alleging that they were the victims of fraud, misrepresentation, and negligence.

Official casualty estimates came to a total of 567, including all the crewmen that remained onboard the Grandcamp, but many victims were burned to ashes or blown to bits, and the official total is believed to be an undercount.

In the United States, whence 180 of the 270 victims came, the decision met with broad hostility.

Prosecutors in Taiwan could not charge Chen at the time because no victims came forward with a lawsuit.

Some of the locals believe, erroneously, that the name came about when the bodies of London plague victims were buried in the town in attempts to put an end to it.

The church houses a brass memorial plaque to the victims of the Whitwick Colliery Disaster ( 1898 ) and the gravestone of James Stephenson, who came here through the influence of his brother, George Stephenson, the engineer, to work as an official at the Snibston Colliery.

Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other's heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process.

That is especially true for the millions of dead of this century, from the Armenians all the way to the victims of the Gulag Archipelago or the Cambodians who were and still are being murdered before all of our eyes-but who have still been dropped from the world's memory " In his " Postscript " of 21 April 1987, Fest wrote that in his view :" In its substance, the dispute was initiated by Ernst Nolte's question whether Hitler's monstrous will to annihilate the Jews, judging from its origin, came from early Viennese impressions or, what is more likely, from later Munich experiences, that is, whether Hitler was an originator or simply being reactive.

' The victims and, in some cases, the magistrates, may have found it easier to explain the attack as supernatural rather than confront the idea that the attack came from someone in a position of trust.

Support for victims came from all over the United States and 18 foreign countries.

He also criticised Bush for using the memory of the victims of 9 / 11 to justify war as the biggest tragedy that came out of the event.

More than half of the victims came from the wealthier parts of the bourgeoisie.

While the victims with the worst symptoms came from Toyama prefecture, the government found victims in five other prefectures.

And still another witness, one who had crawled out from under a heap of corpses, had to tell how the victims had been forced to lay themselves head to foot one on top of the other before being shot.

He never gets home until late, and he has to distance himself from the natural pity that he feels for the victims ; otherwise, he would not be able to go on.

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

The park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 ( age 71 ) to 1998 ( age 3 ).

Pseudolus, an excellent liar, uses Philia's cheery disposition to convince Lycus that she has picked up a plague from Crete, which causes its victims to smile endlessly in its terminal stages.

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

All of that data was stolen from the victims of the worm ; it includes no information about the creator of Badtrans.

The same problem arose, several years later, with the Valech Report, released in 2004 and which counted almost 30, 000 victims of torture, among testimonies from 35, 000 persons.

There are numerous examples of murderers consuming their victims, often deriving some degree of sexual satisfaction from the act of cannibalism.

The victims ' flesh would be cut from their bodies and distributed to members of the society.

* Fear of retaliation may deter victims or witnesses of crimes from taking any action.

The techniques used by the Chinese authorities included a technique derived from standard group psychotherapy, which was aimed at forcing the victims ( who were generally intellectuals ) to produce detailed and sincere ideological “ confessions ”.

An official release from the baseball organization claimed that they were the victims of a denial of service attack.

Coyote predation can usually be distinguished from dog or coydog predation by the fact that coyotes partially consume their victims.

They were delivered from being the victims of an evil decree against them and were instead allowed by the King to destroy their enemies.

In July 2007, new forensic evidence was presented in the case and a status report jointly issued by the State and the Defense team stated, " Although most of the genetic material recovered from the scene was attributable to the victims of the offenses, some of it cannot be attributed to either the victims or the defendants.

A hair identified as belonging to a black male was later recovered from a sheet which was used to wrap one of the victims.

On May 6, 1993 ( the day the murder victims were found ), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department to determine if she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer.

Deprogrammers generally operate on the assumption that the people they are paid to extract from religious organizations are victims of mind control ( or brainwashing ).

Philo, Special Laws 2. 27 / 145 (" Many myriads of victims from noon till eventide are offered by the whole people ").

While there were victims from many groups, Jews were the main targets.

A prominent example of false document in the videogame genre is the Resident Evil series, which, from the first installment, uses newspaper clippings and television news reports that report the alleged cannibalistic murder of the victims found in the Arklay Mountain region.

Tertullian used it somewhat differently – all victims of the arena were sacrificial in his eyes – and expressed the paradox of the arenarii as a class, from a Christian viewpoint:

The telemovie described the disaster's real cause, several victims, the rescuers, other people who assisted victims, and the ongoing annual ceremony of dropping roses from the current bridge site onto the rail lines.