The MO's they used may have been copies of earlier killings, even this latest one.

North Korea then accepted responsibility for the earlier killings.

I wish the earlier killings were a little more plausible.

In a third parallel to the earlier killings, a daughter was found with signs she had fought for her life.

He pointed to an article about the earlier killings in the current issue of New York magazine, and suggested that it had motivated the killer.

There had been three men involved in the earlier killings.

He again misses badly and thus re-enacts the earlier killing of his wife.

There is no official word from the police indicating whether the boy's death is related to the earlier killing of the Howler.

There has been a series of suicides to protest the earlier killing of the student.

An earlier killing was ruled self-defense and about 30 gambling arrests pepper his Cleveland police record from 1951 to 1966.